from the Kurdistan Regional Government on the Halabja massacre. The link is on the right side. Very graphic.
A Dutch businessman accused of complicity in war crimes and genocide for selling chemicals to Iraq knew Saddam Hussein would use them for poison gas attacks, prosecutors said on Friday.
Frans van Anraat, 62, is charged with supplying thousands of tons of agents for poison gas that Saddam's military used in the 1980-1988 war against Iran and against its own Kurdish population, including an attack on the town of Halabja in 1988.
Prosecutor Fred Teeven told a pre-trial hearing at the high-security court in Rotterdam that Van Anraat continued to supply chemicals after the Halabja attack, which killed an estimated 5,000 people 17 years ago this week.
"Van Anraat was conscious of ... the fact that his materials were going to be used for poison gas attacks," he said.
"The damage and grief caused will not be rapidly, if ever, forgotten."...
Saddam and his feared cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, also known as "Chemical Ali," face trial for war crimes, including the Halabja attack, at a special tribunal in Iraq.
U.N. weapons inspectors have called Van Anraat one of the most important middlemen who supplied Iraq with chemical agents.
The first Dutchman to be tried on genocide-related charges, Van Anraat, who sat silently in court, faces up to life in prison if convicted. The next hearing has been scheduled for June. His trial is expected to begin later this year.
Van Anraat was first detained in Milan in 1989 following a U.S. request but was released after two months. He then fled to Iraq, where it is thought he stayed until the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, when he returned to the Netherlands through Syria.
The AIVD Dutch secret service provided Van Anraat with a mobile phone and helped him find housing when he returned to the Netherlands in 2003 and assured him he would not face prosecution, his lawyers said.
He was arrested by Dutch officials at a house in Amsterdam in December as he was preparing to leave the country.
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One Committed Atrocity against a child; is an example how hatred against America is created
By Dr. Jack Shepard
http://jerusalem.indymedia.org/news/2005/03/161323.php
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Dr. Jack Shepard says, America is blamed and hated throughout the Islamic World because of the Atrocities committed by the Israeli Military under the policies of Ariel Sharon toward the Palestinian Men, Women and especially things like the targeted cool blooded murdering of children like poor Aboel Samad Shamalakh, who was shown moments before he is killed in the morning by Israeli gunfire from a Israeli tank while he was working in his family field.
He may seem just another forgotten victim, but atrocities like this Israeli MilitaryÂ’s cold blooded killing of a defenseless child like Aboel Samad Shamalakh seen here kneeling to taking cover as an Israeli tank fires at him and his brothers after an Israeli army bulldozer demolished a Palestinian police post on a road near the crossing of the Jewish Netzarim settlement in southern Gaza, Friday June 21, 2002 cause the entire Islamic World to also hate America for the action of Ariel Sharon.
Aboel Samad Shamalakh, only a child was killed shortly after this photo was snapped. This photo shows how really defenseless a child, Aboel Samad Shamalakh was as he was trying to take cover a few seconds before he was killed in cold blood by an Israeli Soldier firing at him from a Israeli tank. Actions like this create extreme hatred toward America because of the action of the policies Ariel Sharon Government uses.
Dr. Jack Shepard says, America is blamed and hated throughout the Islamic World because of the murder and treatment of Palestinians by the Government of Ariel Sharon. The cold blooded killing of a child like Aboel Samad Shamalakh is just one of 1000's of Atrocities committed by the Israeli Military under the policies approved by the Government of Ariel Sharon toward the Palestinian Men, Women and children.
Dr. Jack Shepard hopes to educate his fellow Americans why we are blamed for such past atrocities of the Israeli Government of Ariel Sharon. That until Ariel Sharon sincerely and immediately works for a permanent peace and the immediate creation of a Palestinian State living side by side in peace with Israel State as President George W. Bush envisions we can never have world peace.
My fellow American have to learn to understand that atrocities like this cold blooded murder of this child are used by extremists and terrorist to recruit Islamic men and women from all over the world to call for a holy war to destroy America and presently to come to Iraq to kill our fellow American Soldiers fighting to defend the Iraqi people and bring Democracy and Freedom to the Middle East.
The American public has to understand the success of our mission in Iraq and getting our American soldiers home depends on the immediate creation of the Palestinian State according to President George W. Bush vision..
The American Public has to understand that any delays and wasting of time in the peace negotiations by the government of Ariel Sharon in the creation of a Palestinian State will cause hundreds of additional American lives to be unnecessarily lost in Iraq.
Ariel Sharon has created a situation in the Middle East by his policies of mass atrocities toward the Palestinian People these last 4 years; that Islamic Extremists and Terrorists have used to recruit 100Â’s if not 1000Â’s of suicide murders like though who destroyed the World Trade Center on September 11 and those are presently being recruited as new terrorists who are being rushed to Iraq to kill our fellow American Soldiers not for what America has done in the past but only because of the hatred of America received because of the actions of Ariel Sharon in the past 4 years.
Very very unfortunate but very typical and to me one of the sadist examples is there can be no explanation or justification for the cold blood murder of a defenseless children like Aboel Samad Shamalakh.
Actions like this by the uncontrolled Israeli military toward unarmed Palestinian child has enraged the whole Islamic World to hate and blame America for these unjustified actions of Ariel Sharon Government.
It has to by made very clear to my fellow Americans without 100% complete control of Ariel Sharon actions to immediately end his present policies and until he immediately begins to treat the Palestinian people humanitarianly we will never have President George W. Bush vision of the two states of Palestine and Israel living side by side in Peace; and until we have peace between the Israeli Military Machine and the Palestinian People the hatred created by Ariel SharonÂ’s policies will block any chance of the spreading of Peace, Freedom and Democracy in the Middle East.
Everyday Ariel Sharon wastes time in his half hearted peace process with the Palestinians Leaders in all truth it costs our brave American soldiers fighting for peace in Iraq more deaths and more injures. Even more scary the long Ariel Sharon played game with these peace process, it also raises the likelihood of the chances of another major terrorist attack on American Soil.
Mr. Sharon the world can not longer be held hostage by your policies and atrocities. Your policies has presently brought the world to what can be really called a World Civil War created by the hatred toward America and Israel your policies have created.
Posted by: Dr. Jack Shepard at March 19, 2005 05:12 PM (D3TC8)
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DR. JACK SHEPARD'S VIDEO WARNING IRAQI SUICIDE BOMBERS THAT THEY GO TO HELL NOT HEAVEN,
Visit www.shepardusgov.com
By Dr. Jack Shepard, founder of People for Peace Group.
Hello let us all pray for Peace.
I have made a 2.5 minute video Warning the Iraqi Suicide Bombers to beware; if they kill themselves they go to Hell not Heaven.
Please visit www.shepardusgov.com to see my Video warning to the Iraqi Insurgents.
If my message gets somehow to the Iraqi Insurgents and the Palestinian Suicide Bombers, and they learn what they do is against the Koran I think they will stop.
Then God willing we will have Peace In Israel and Iraqi and Love and Peace will have a chance.
Please copy my CD if anyone wishes TO HELP SPREAD THESE WORDS TO THE SUICIDE BOMBERS BEFORE THEY KILL THEMSELVES AND MANY OTHER POOR INNOCENT PEOPLE.
Then take it to your local TV Station to play for 2.5 minutes to stimulate a discussion about Suicide Bombing as a Weapon of War.
Please advise the TV station after they play my brief 2.5 minute video. I would suggest that the TV station organizes to have a group of religious scholars from all faiths give their opinion what each religion teaches its followers about Suicide.
May God Bless the World with Love and Peace
Dr. Jack Shepard, founder of People for Peace To contact
Dr. Shepard with ideas or comments Email: middle.east@flashnet.it
The ORIGINAL text (to use in translation into Arabic) of Dr.Jack Shepard, founder of People for Peace Group's warning to the Insurgent suicide bombers.
My brothers in Iraqi I pray for you; I am Dr. Jack Shepard founder of People for Peace (to use in translation into Arabic)
I warn the militant insurgents in Iraq you are now fighting and killing mostly innocent Iraqi men, women, and children, you do not fear Allah, if you continue to obey the evil publishing of fatwa (edicts) by Iraqi religious leaders.
These edicts are blaspheme against Allah and Prophet Muhammad, you defy the divine assertions that the Quran is complete, perfect, fully detailed, and shall be the only source of religious guidance Prophet Muhammad stated in very strong words, against issuing any religious teachings besides the Quran.
Fatwa were never authorized by Allah or the Prophet Muhammad, edicts are not the Word of God.
Presently many of the scholars in Iraq are engaging in major acts of disbelief by issuing these edicts. Believing in Allah means to believe Him and accept His teaching and His word.
Choosing the scholars or the dictionary over Allah reflects a disbelief in Allah and His word (Quran).
We each are living out AllahÂ’s plan; Allah knew each of us before we were born. What ever we do we can not hide it from Allah. As Mohammad once said this one, by his actions was made for Paradise and this one, by his actions was made for the fire of Hell.
The Jihad Organizations lie to the insurgents. These Organizations are led by these misguided individuals that only increase the tribulations of the entire Muslim community by not telling to young insurgents that suicide bombings according to the Quran guarantees punishment “in the fire of hell, wherein they shall dwell forever.”
Suicide bombing by young uninformed Muslim youths had been carried out almost routinely as a mean of revenge in the Iraq conflict.
These suicide bombers created an intolerable situation, no permission can be found in Islam to avengence by suicide bombing or by targeting the innocent civilians.
These young desperate Muslim youth have been taught what is NOT in the Quran, and what was never promised by Allah.
I pray my brothers in Iraq remember these things before Allah announces his verdict on you, presently only those who do not fear Allah are blocking the ability of ordinary IraqiÂ’s to take control of their own country
These fatwa (edicts) are presently causing limitless grief and sadness for your brothers in Iraq.
You militant insurgents who blindly obey these fatwa (edicts) have created a monstrous and inhumane situation unnecessarily in Iraq by killing and harming mostly your fellow Muslim Brothers if you continue your actions you will be made for the fires of hell..
My Iraqi brother l still hope and pray for you.
I only can Warn the Iraqi insurgents; stop killing your brothers Unfortunately most of the men, women and children who you are hurt and killed most often have nothing to do with anything but are just ordinary Iraqi trying to live, praying for their nightmare to end.
Those of you that follow these fatwa (edicts) how can you call your actions acts of resistance, all your doing is maximizing the suffering of your Muslim brothers in Iraq.
In the name of Allah stop. Allah sees all.
Presently you have to understand your actions are not right-doing for the Iraqi men, women and children that you are killing and maiming by exploding cars and bombs in the streets or shooting mortar or grenade launchers into the crowded streets.
You militant insurgents want to the American Coalition to go home; call a truce and learn to love your neighbors; as people made for Paradise would, and at that moment, the Coalition will immediately begin to start going home.
Fear Allah! How can you call your actions acts of resistance, all your doing is maximizing the suffering of the Iraqi people, suirely you do not fear Allah. Istill hope and pray for you..
I, myself pray that Allah blesses Iraq and the Middle East with Peace.
Allah made us all, do not be blinded by these blashme of these Edicts or fataw's these Coalition soldiers or Iraqi Policeman were all created by Allah. They have wives, children and families just like you.
They would be happier than you to soon be able to return home to their families and loved ones, as you would be happier to return to your families and a normal life.
We have to remember if we break Allah's law, by obeying false lord’s fatwa (edicts) we move ourselves away from Allah's mercy and support. Allah is send upon you humiliation and Allah will not remove it from you until you return to (practicing) Islam (correctly),”
Only when you stop killing our brothers and exploding cars in the streets, the kidnapping and murder of people in a manner which contradicts the teachings of the Prophet Mohammad.
You insurgents have to remember there is nothing holy about a war in Islam. If we call a truce with your brother Iraqi's the sooner the American Coalition force will have to leave Iraqi soil, ending their occupation and give you the control of their destiny.
In the name of Allah:end this slaughter of thousands of your innocence Iraqi brothers both men, women and children immediately.
Fear Allah
In the name of Allah: stop doing what is not pleasing to Allah or surely you will dwell in the fires of Hell for ever.
Allah is all knowing and seeing.
By Dr. Jack Shepard, founder of People for Peace
Posted by: Drjackshepard at July 02, 2005 09:53 AM (D3TC8)
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