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By Alan Maass An Interview with Patrick Cockburn — Reporting on the Ground from Iraq From the execution of unarmed civilians, to U.S. snipers planted in mosques, to raids on hospitals, the horrors of the U.S. invasion of Falluja continue to emerge in the media. The international media, that is. It's almost impossible to learn the real story of the U.S. assault from America's corporate media — which has reverted to the same uncritical, cheerleading attitude it had during the weeks after the invasion of Iraq began. But accounts of what actually took place when the U.S. attacked what it claimed was a small force of "terrorists" in Falluja describe a high-tech slaughter. The leveling of Falluja will only add to the fury of ordinary Iraqis — ultimately fueling opposition and resistance, whether in the so-called "Sunni triangle" in central Iraq, or among the majority Shias in the south, or in northern cities like Mosul once thought relatively stable. Patrick Cockburn has been an invaluable source of information for anyone wanting to know what is going on in Iraq. As a correspondent for Britain's Independent newspaper, he has written regular reports from Iraq throughout the occupation. Many of these reports have appeared on the CounterPunch Web site. With his brother Andrew, he wrote Out of the Ashes: The Resurrection of Saddam Hussein — one of the best books on Iraq under Saddam's Baath Party regime. |
An Iraqi man cries outside al-Yarmuk hospital in Baghdad's western Al-Amel district after hearing of the loss of a loved one. |
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Last month, in the aftermath of the invasion, he talked about what really happened in Falluja — and why Washington's "victory" in this battle won't help it win the war.
THE U.S. claimed that they were targeting a small force of hard-core insurgents in Falluja, including "foreign" terrorists.
What's the reality?
There should be no mystery about the nature of the resistance in Iraq.
The situation is very simple, as it would be in most countries of the world — when you have an occupation by a foreign power, you have resistance.
And that's exactly what's happened in Iraq.
It's absurd to think that there are tiny groups either of foreign fighters or remnants of the former regime who are holding the rest of the population to ransom.
You can see this in Falluja, in Mosul.
You could see this from the very beginning — from the summer of 2003.
Whenever I went to a place where there had been an attack on an American patrol, and U.S. soldiers had been killed, always, the local kids were jumping up and down for joy.
This was always an unpopular occupation with most of the population, and that majority has gone up. |
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www.counterpunch.org December 4-6, 2004 By Alan Maass
An Interview with Patrick Cockburn — Reporting on the Ground from Iraq
Having said that, the resistance has always been fragmented.
It's different in different areas.
In places like Falluja, there was a very strong tribal element.
In fact, in a place as tribal as that, it would be very difficult to have any movement, military or political, that wasn't tribal.
In the villages, often the resistance was really just the local young men.
I remember in April of this year, I was caught up in an ambush on the road west of Baghdad, between Abu Ghraib and Falluja.
The U.S. army hadn't realized that the road had fallen to the resistance, and I was caught up in an ambush of trucks carrying gasoline to U.S. forces.
We got out of the car and lay on the ground.
And when we were escaping, it was very noticeable that all the young men were running with their guns from villages nearby, shouting to us and other cars, "Where's the fighting, where's the fighting?"
This was very much a local militia in action.
What happened in Falluja has been exaggerated in the newspapers and on television. You see these great satellite maps showing Falluja, as if this was Stalingrad or the Battle of Berlin in 1945.
Falluja is kind of a one-horse town — it's not that big. You could walk across it in about half an hour.
And just at the moment that the U.S. troops were moving into Falluja, suddenly, most of Mosul — a city in the north, which is at least five or six times the size of Falluja — fell to the insurgents.
Most of the police went home or changed sides.
This is far more important in some ways than what's happened in Falluja.
But Falluja was drummed up as a media spectacular, and therefore, what's happened in the rest of the country got much less publicity. |
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Tuesday, 23 November, 2004
Hunting 'Satan' in Falluja hell By Paul Wood BBC News, Falluja
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Anyway, you could always pick him out. He would be the one with the chess board placed on an up-ended box of MREs (Meal Ready to Eat), working out moves.
I got to know him a little bit, as his bunk was opposite mine.
I would watch as he gave chess tips to those of his men who had not completely given in to poker or hearts.
About five hours into the battle, Lt Malcolm was killed.
He was the weapons officer in Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, the unit I had joined as an "embed".
Just before dawn, Alpha Company blew a large hole in an outer wall, and entered the police station right in the heart of Falluja.
It was still pretty quiet then but as the sun rose the marines found themselves surrounded and under attack from all sides.
Lt Malcolm's squad went up on to the highest roof top they could find — but not higher than the two minarets on either side with snipers.
There was a wall about 40cm (16in) tall for cover. Everyone tried to get close to it while bullets skipped across the paving stones.
When he heard his men were in trouble — the men he'd been giving chess tips just the day before — Lt Malcolm came to get them.
Extraordinary valour
As he ran onto the roof, one of the sniper's bullets hit his helmet, bouncing off.
He kept going, and did not leave until he had shepherded all his men down.
He was killed by the second bullet. It got him in the back, just below the flak jacket, as he jumped down the stairwell.
He must have thought he was home free.
There was no hint of his extraordinary valour in the press release issued two days later.
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It said: "The Department of Defense announced today the death two marines who were supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom."
"1st Lt Dan T Malcolm Jr, 25, of Brinson, Ga, died Nov 10 as a result of enemy action in al-Anbar Province, Iraq."
The other dead marine in the press release was a Sgt David Caruso, who was not from our unit.
At the end of the day on which Lt Malcolm was killed, the 1/8 had taken between a quarter and a third of the killed and wounded for the entire force, across the entire operation.
That was about five times their proportion of the attacking troops.
On Monday, the number of deaths for coalition forces stood at 51, with some 450 injured.
These figures represent the coalition's worst losses in any battle in Iraq since the invasion. And the 1/8 still have 20% of those losses.
'Fort Apache'
Lt Col Brandl, the 1/8's commander, came striding across the roof top, wearing wrap-around shades and a broad grin.
A cigar was sticking out of one side of his mouth. Everyone else was moving around bent double.
The marines called this building "Fort Apache" since in any particular direction you cared to look, someone was attacking them.
"What's our situation, Colonel?" I asked, a little nervous.
"Our situation is good," he said, pausing for a volley of gunfire. "The enemy is coming to us. And we're killing him."
Col Brandl's insouciance as he strode around the battlefield — his battlefield — was a calculated act of leadership, designed to steady the nerves of the young marines around him.
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I also detected a sense of relief in him. The planning was over.
What would happen, would happen. It was up to his marines now.
We had got a hint of the enormous stress on Brandl during the eve-of-battle briefing.
For three hours, he and his men poured over slides stamped "Top Secret" and walked around a map of central Falluja drawn with marker pen on the floor of their operations room.
Our camera zoomed in close on Col Brandl while he was deep in thought — almost invading his privacy despite this being a very public space.
We could see an insistent twitch below his right eye. He had had no sleep for a week and held the lives of hundreds of Americans and Iraqis in his hands.
So he would look at a captain pointing a stick at the map on the floor and say things like: "I see an enemy vehicle laden with explosives coming up one of those routes.
"He's going to run one, two, four, five, however many he wants to, right into your flank.
"Once you've got that area isolated, the enemy is yours. It's coming in on your flanks I'm concerned about."
'Nothing will defeat us'
Col Brandl had a good turn of phrase for us journalists. This was one which got widely quoted:
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"You've got to remember, gents, that this enemy does not like to show his face.
"A lot of the marines that I've had wounded and killed over the past five months have been by a faceless enemy. But the enemy has got a face.
"He's called Satan. He's in Falluja. And we're going to destroy him."
But to his officers in the briefing he said: "There's nothing out there that will defeat us."
Pointing to his head, then his heart, he went on: "What our marines, soldiers and sailors, and the Iraqi forces that we have with us, have going for them is not only what's up here [head], but what's in here [heart].
"This is a right fight for us, this is a good fight for us. And we're going to win it. And we're going to do it with professionalism and honour."
Lt Bahrns was one of the young officers in the briefing.
When I asked about the massive amount of firepower the marines would bring to bear on Falluja, he said: "If there are civilians in there, they are non-combatants, then by no means do we want to hurt a woman or a child.
"We're here to protect them, we're here to keep them safe and we're here to turn over Falluja back to them. It's just shoot the bad guys and take care of the civilians."
Boy soldier
Lt Bahrns was leading a squad responsible for clearing the insurgents out of the very southern tip of Falluja.
It was by now more than a week into the battle, the longest continuous period of urban, house-to house fighting since the Vietnam war.
Alpha Company were holed up in a house right on the edge of the desert. You could really see that the insurgents had nowhere else to go.
Every night, though, the insurgents would attack, waiting until just after dark.
Half an hour after sunset the first rocket propelled grenades made yellow streaks across the sky, and exploded just behind us.
The marine snipers would try to pick off the insurgents circling around the building.
The next morning, we saw their bodies, splayed out at odd angles, already starting to bloat, the flies thick on their faces.
Lt Bahrns told me he had lost his machine gunner.
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The gunner had been first into a house, the lieutenant explained, and been shot and killed by those inside.
The heavy gun was then pulled off the marine's body, and used to fire on the others in the squad outside the house.
There was a long battle. For three hours they could not even get the dead marine's body out.
When the marines finally stormed the house, they found three other bodies inside, each holding weapons: two men, and a boy, "maybe 10 years old".
You could tell that Lt Bahrns was sickened by this, almost in anguish.
"They were shooting at my marines," he said. "What could we do?"
Throughout this entire week, we caught only two glimpses of civilians.
One was a group with white flags running away. Another was a shell-shocked man who was brought into the marines' base on a stretcher after being found wandering the streets.
The marines saw many dead bodies — often being gnawed at by dogs in the streets — but they were all of fighters, even if in this one case the "fighter" was a child.
Paul Wood was embedded with the 1st Battalion of the 8th Marine Regiment during the battle of Falluja.
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By Alan Maass An Interview with Patrick Cockburn — Reporting on the Ground from Iraq When the U.S. moved to retake Mosul after the rebellion, it appeared to be using Kurdish troops. That will only increase the threat of ethnic conflicts between Arabs and Kurds, won't it? The problem for the U.S. army in Iraq is that if they're going to use local forces, the only ones that they can really rely on are Kurdish forces — commonly called peshmerga. Elsewhere, they clearly don't really trust the Iraqi National Guard forces that have been raised. You can see that from the number of very bloody attacks on the National Guard by insurgents. It turns out that the National Guard have no weapons outside their camps. Everybody in Iraq carries a gun, but not these guys. And the reason appears to be that the U.S. Army was nervous about giving them weapons when they went home — in case they didn't come back, or in case they'd use them against Americans. Mosul is mostly an Arab city. The Arabs are on the west bank of the Tigris — about 700,000 or 800,000. There are over a quarter million Kurds, mostly on the east bank. And sectarian feelings have been growing since the city fell during the war last year. The Arabs blamed the Kurds for being behind the looting, and there was an element of truth in this. I went in there on the day Mosul fell, and I picked up a peshmerga bodyguard with a submachine. It turned out to be a really bad idea, because they weren't after me, but they certainly were after anybody wearing a Kurdish uniform. So I had to get the guy to lie down in the back of my car, with his gun underneath him, and put a blanket over him. I spent half the day trying to protect our Kurdish bodyguard. |
| BEFORE THE invasion, the U.S. justified every missile strike on Falluja as an attack on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — the "terrorist mastermind" behind all Iraqi resistance, if you believe Washington. What kind of power does Zarqawi and his supporters have? Or is he more a creation of U.S. propaganda? THERE'S NO question that the Zarqawi group exists. But to think that it's the main element — or even among the main elements — of the resistance is exaggerated, I think. Obviously, it's done a number of bloody and heavily publicized things by issuing videos of Zarqawi cutting people's throats. But otherwise, I think that its public prominence really started from January of this year. At the press briefings in Baghdad, every time the military and civilian spokesmen appeared, they would say Zarqawi did this, Zarqawi did that. Remember, this came a couple weeks after Saddam Hussein had been picked up — the main Iraqi figure who could be demonized. Everything bad happening previously could be blamed on Saddam. With no Saddam, you needed someone to demonize. There was a story that a special letter from Zarqawi to al-Qaeda had been found, but this is pretty dubious. Many specialists on Iraq think that it's a hoax. |
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I think that the Zarqawi group is really quite limited.
I should also say, however, that because of all the publicity about Zarqawi's group, this has enabled it to expand.
I was in Haifa Street, which is just east of the Green Zone in Baghdad — a hard resistance area where a U.S. vehicle was hit a few months ago.
The local kids were dancing up and down, and some of them had produced a black flag, as if it was Zarqawi's group who was there.
But this is just something that the local kids had heard about, so they ran it up themselves.
You suddenly have groups — some political, some criminal — claiming that they're part of Zarqawi's group.
But that's just what they've heard about, and it gives them an identity. |
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By Alan Maass An Interview with Patrick Cockburn — Reporting on the Ground from Iraq THE U.S. claimed that the attack on Falluja had to go forward to prepare the way for elections in January. What do you make of this? THIS WHOLE connection between the attack on Falluja and the elections is one of the weirdest things I've heard. You go and smash up a city, you turn all of its population into refugees, you kill quite a number of them — and somehow they're going to come out and vote? I think that was always kind of an absurdity. It was always very odd that 30 miles from the center of Baghdad, you had this independent enclave in Falluja, where the U.S. had to withdraw, apparently under orders from the White House because of the presidential election. So it was always likely that they were going to attack. I don't think it really has a strong connection with the election. And in fact, you can see that most of the Sunni areas of Iraq are even more out of [U.S.] control after Falluja than they were before. |
US embedded journalism in Iraq. |
I think the elections are going to take place primarily because Ayatollah Ali Sistani wants them to take place.
He wants there to be an election in which the Shiite Iraqis can demonstrate that they're a majority.
And the Kurds want the elections because they think they'll do quite well.
But it's doubtful that Sunni Muslims — who are about 20 percent of the population — will vote.
Perhaps more important is that you can have these elections, but will it effect anything?
Is there any reason that the resistance should go down?
In Northern Ireland, in the 1970s and '80s, there were lots of elections, and it never seemed to affect what the Provisional IRA was doing to the British Army.
There's no particular reason why elections in Iraq should stop the resistance.
The U.S. had a particular imperative before the U.S. presidential election to show the Iraqi elections as the prime policy objective in Iraq.
That isn't there anymore.
But I think that it would be very difficult to postpone the elections now — because the Shiites are expecting it, have demanded it for a long time, and would see a postponement as one more attempt to deny them power. |
Family members spend the Eid al-Fitr holiday with nine-year-old Sahar Mamod at Yarmook Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2004.
She was injured by a gunshot shot wound when U.S. troops started shooting near her home in Baghdad four days earlier. |
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SISTANI WAS noticeably silent in opposing the U.S. assault on Falluja.
Does mean that he's on board with Washington?
And if so, how much influence does he--as the main Shiite religious leader in Iraq — have compared to the more militant cleric Moktada al-Sadr?
I DON'T think it's necessarily accurate to say that Sistani is on board with the U.S.
From the beginning, Sistani and the people around him have argued that the Iraqi Shia made a mistake when Iraq was occupied by the British during the First World War — when the Shia took the front line in the armed opposition to the occupation and led the great uprising in 1920.
Consequently, it was the Sunni who were given power by the British, and really have held it up to the present moment.
But that doesn't mean Sistani is in favor of the occupation.
Sistani has refused to meet any American or foreign official representing the occupation since the invasion.
Paul Bremer, when he was the U.S. viceroy of Iraq, never got to see him.
I think they're walking a tightrope.
On Falluja, they may have felt that at least part of the resistance in Falluja was sectarian and anti-Shiite.
And consequently, that may be one of the reasons why they didn't say anything. |
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There's no doubt that Sadr has quite a large constituency.
But his power stems partly from the religious reputation of his father, who was murdered by Saddam Hussein in 1999.
It's difficult for him to go 100 percent against the Shiite religious establishment.
Sadr's people are a mixture of religious and nationalist.
Their main poster is of Moktada and his family — as martyrs who were killed by Saddam — but in the background, there's an Iraqi flag.
So it's not just religion — there's a very strong nationalist element in Sadr's group.
There were those who wanted to go on fighting in Najaf, and there were the political leaders who didn't want to.
One of the most important things to watch over the next year or two is the relationship in general, obviously, between the Shia and the Sunni, but also between the nationalist groups on both sides.
The Sunnis will have seen that Moktada denounced the attack on Falluja, and Sistani didn't — at least not until the last moment.
How far does this become a nationalist movement, and how far is it a sectarian movement?
You can't be sure about that yet.
The recent uprising in Mosul in the last week or so appears to be much more straightforwardly nationalist, allegedly led by former members of the Baath Party.
But all of this is very fluid. |
Deserted and devastated street in Fallujah, Iraq, Nov. 29 2004. Photo: AP/U.S. Army, Pat Jones |
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IS THERE any developing national leadership or direction to the Iraqi resistance?
THERE ISN'T a national leadership, although there seems to be more contact between different groups.
The lack of a national leadership hasn't necessarily been to their disadvantage.
One of the difficulties that the U.S. has had in pinning them down is that there was no leadership to identify and target.
Often, these are guys who come from a certain village or a certain area, but they don't necessarily have many contacts elsewhere.
How much sectarian cooperation is there?
I think it probably depends on each individual neighborhood or town.
In some areas, there's traditional hostility between Shia and Sunni; in some areas, there's cooperation.
It's a complex relationship.
Iraq is not like Northern Ireland, where Protestants and Catholics practically never marry.
Iraq — particularly Baghdad, but Iraq as a whole — is full of families where the husband or wife is Sunni, and the other is Shia.
That's true of Iraq in general, and it's true of the resistance as well. |
A video grab shows U.S. Marines inspecting a body inside a mosque after a battle with Iraq resistance forces in Falluja, November 13, 2004.
A television pool report by U.S. network NBC said on Monday that a U.S. Marine had shot dead an unarmed and wounded Iraqi prisoner in the mosque.
The Iraqi was one of five wounded prisoners left in the mosque after Marines had fought their way in on Friday and Saturday. Photo: Pool/Reuters |
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ONE OF the outcomes that the U.S. media have raised is of civil war — and even of the U.S. pushing for the partition of Iraq along ethnic lines as a solution to the crisis of the occupation.
Do you think this is in the cards?
PARTITION SOLVES a few problems — or doesn't quite even solve them — but it would create a whole series of new problems.
It's difficult to divide Iraq up.
What happens, for instance, to Kirkuk?
This is a matter of deep dispute between the Kurds and the Arabs of Iraq — what happens to the oilfields around Kirkuk?
Secondly, at least a quarter of the population of Iraq lives in the greater Baghdad area.
What do you do about Baghdad?
There are some Sunni areas, some Shia neighborhoods, and there are a lot of mixed neighborhoods.
It's very difficult to just physically divide up the country.
There is the division between the Kurds and the Arabs, both Shia and Sunni, which is very deep and getting deeper, because Iraqi Kurdistan — the three provinces in the north — has effectively been independent for over a decade.
Most young Kurds don't speak Arabic, so those divisions are pretty deep.
But even here, partition creates other questions.
Once you have an independent Kurdistan, what is Turkey going to do?
Is it going to sit by?
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What would happen to the Shia part of Iraq — is that going to fall under the influence of Iran?
Dividing up the country creates a vacuum, which is going to be filled by somebody, from inside or outside Iraq.
I think partition also underestimates the fact that while there are deep sectarian divisions in Iraq, there's also, among Arabs, strong Iraqi nationalism.
Sectarianism is growing, but nationalism is also strong.
So students at one university have taken the decision not to ever refer to Shia and Sunni.
Particularly among educated youth, there's a strong feeling that they should refer to themselves only as Iraqis.
Everything is taking place in a country that's deeply impoverished.
At the time of the invasion, one of the reasons that a majority of Iraqis — not just Kurds and Shia, but a lot of Sunnis — were glad to see the end of Saddam was that they expected their material lives to get better.
And they really haven't, with some exceptions.
In many cases, they've gotten worse.
So all these struggles and divisions are taking place in a country where more than half the population is unemployed, where people are living in poverty.
And this has contributed to making Iraq such a violent place.
Alan Maass is the editor of Socialist Worker. |
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Monday 22nd November 2004
Kevin Sites
It’s Saturday morning and we’re still at our strong point from the night before, a clearing between a set of buildings on the southern edge of the city.
The advance has been swift, but pockets of resistance still exist.
In fact, we’re taking sniper fire from both the front and the rear.
Weapons Company uses its 81’s (mortars) where they spot muzzle flashes.
The tanks do some blasting of their own.
By mid-morning, we’re told we’re moving north again.
We’ll be back clearing some of the area we passed yesterday.
There are also reports that the mosque, where ten insurgents were killed and five wounded on Friday may have been re-occupied overnight.
I decide to leave you guys and pick up with one of the infantry squads as they move house-to-house back toward the mosque.
(For their own privacy and protection I will not name or identify in any way, any of those I was traveling with during this incident.)
Many of the structures are empty of people — but full of weapons.
Outside one residence, a member of the squad lobs a frag grenade over the wall.
Everyone piles in, including me.
While the Marines go into the house, I follow the flames caused by the grenade into the courtyard.
When the smoke clears, I can see through my viewfinder that the fire is burning beside a large pile of anti-aircraft rounds.
I yell to the lieutenant that we need to move.
Almost immediately after clearing out of the house, small explosions begin as the rounds cook off in the fire.
At that point, we hear the tanks firing their 240-machine guns into the mosque.
There’s radio chatter that insurgents inside could be shooting back.
The tanks cease-fire and we file through a breach in the outer wall.
We hear gunshots from what seems to be coming from inside the mosque.
A Marine from my squad yells, "Are there Marines in here?"
When we arrive at the front entrance, we see that another squad has already entered before us.
The lieutenant asks them, "Are there people inside?"
One of the Marines raises his hand signaling five.
"Did you shoot them," the lieutenant asks?
"Roger that, sir, " the same Marine responds.
"Were they armed?" The Marine just shrugs and we all move inside.
Immediately after going in, I see the same black plastic body bags spread around the mosque.
The dead from the day before.
But more surprising, I see the same five men that were wounded from Friday as well.
It appears that one of them is now dead and three are bleeding to death from new gunshot wounds.
The fifth is partially covered by a blanket and is in the same place and condition he was in on Friday, near a column.
He has not been shot again.
I look closely at both the dead and the wounded.
There don’t appear to be any weapons anywhere.
"These were the same wounded from yesterday," I say to the lieutenant.
He takes a look around and goes outside the mosque with his radio operator to call in the situation to Battalion Forward HQ.
I see an old man in a red kaffiyeh lying against the back wall.
Another is face down next to him, his hand on the old man’s lap — as if he were trying to take cover.
I squat beside them, inches away and begin to videotape them.
Then I notice that the blood coming from the old man’s nose is bubbling.
A sign he is still breathing.
So is the man next to him.
While I continue to tape, a Marine walks up to the other two bodies about fifteen feet away, but also lying against the same back wall.
Then I hear him say this about one of the men:
"He’s fucking faking he’s dead — he’s faking he’s fucking dead."
Through my viewfinder I can see him raise the muzzle of his rifle in the direction of the wounded Iraqi.
There are no sudden movements, no reaching or lunging.
However, the Marine could legitimately believe the man poses some kind of danger.
Maybe he’s going to cover him while another Marine searches for weapons.
Instead, he pulls the trigger.
There is a small splatter against the back wall and the man’s leg slumps down.
"Well he’s dead now," says another Marine in the background.
I am still rolling.
I feel the deep pit of my stomach.
The Marine then abruptly turns away and strides away, right past the fifth wounded insurgent lying next to a column.
He is very much alive and peering from his blanket.
He is moving, even trying to talk.
But for some reason, it seems he did not pose the same apparent "danger" as the other man — though he may have been more capable of hiding a weapon or explosive beneath his blanket.
But then two other marines in the room raise their weapons as the man tries to talk.
For a moment, I’m paralyzed still taping with the old man in the foreground.
I get up after a beat and tell the Marines again, what I had told the lieutenant — that this man — all of these wounded men — were the same ones from yesterday.
That they had been disarmed treated and left here.
At that point the Marine who fired the shot became aware that I was in the room.
He came up to me and said, "I didn’t know sir-I didn’t know."
The anger that seemed present just moments before turned to fear and dread.
The wounded man then tries again to talk to me in Arabic.
He says, "Yesterday I was shot... please... yesterday I was shot over there — and talked to all of you on camera — I am one of the guys from this whole group.
I gave you information.
Do you speak Arabic?
I want to give you information." (This man has since reportedly been located by the Naval Criminal Investigation Service which is handling the case.)
In the aftermath, the first question that came to mind was why had these wounded men been left in the mosque?
It was answered by staff judge advocate Lieutenant Colonel Bob Miller — who interviewed the Marines involved following the incident.
After being treated for their wounds on Friday by Navy Corpsman (I personally saw their bandages) the insurgents were going to be transported to the rear when time and circumstances allowed.
The area, however, was still hot.
And there were American casualties to be moved first.
Also, the squad that entered the mosque on Saturday was different than the one that had led the attack on Friday.
It’s reasonable to presume they may not have known that these insurgents had already been engaged and subdued a day earlier.
Yet when this new squad engaged the wounded insurgents on Saturday, perhaps really believing they had been fighting or somehow posed a threat — those Marines inside knew from their training to check the insurgents for weapons and explosives after disabling them, instead of leaving them where they were and waiting outside the mosque for the squad I was following to arrive.
During the course of these events, there was plenty of mitigating circumstances like the ones just mentioned and which I reported in my story.
The Marine who fired the shot had reportedly been shot in the face himself the day before.
I’m also well aware from many years as a war reporter that there have been times, especially in this conflict, when dead and wounded insurgents have been booby-trapped, even supposedly including an incident that happened just a block away from the mosque in which one Marine was killed and five others wounded.
Again, a detail that was clearly stated in my television report. No one, especially someone like me who has lived in a war zone with you, would deny that a solider or Marine could legitimately err on the side of caution under those circumstances. War is about killing your enemy before he kills you. In the particular circumstance I was reporting, it bothered me that the Marine didn’t seem to consider the other insurgents a threat — the one very obviously moving under the blanket, or even the two next to me that were still breathing. I can’t know what was in the mind of that Marine. He is the only one who does. But observing all of this as an experienced war reporter who always bore in mind the dark perils of this conflict, even knowing the possibilities of mitigating circumstances — it appeared to me very plainly that something was not right. According to Lt. Col Bob Miller, the rules of engagement in Falluja required soldiers or Marines to determine hostile intent before using deadly force. I was not watching from a hundred feet away. I was in the same room. Aside from breathing, I did not observe any movement at all. Making sure you know the basis for my choices after the incident is as important to me as knowing how the incident went down. I did not in any way feel like I had captured some kind of "prize" video. In fact, I was heartsick. Immediately after the mosque incident, I told the unit’s commanding officer what had happened. I shared the video with him, and its impact rippled all the way up the chain of command. Marine commanders immediately pledged their cooperation. We all knew it was a complicated story, and if not handled responsibly, could have the potential to further inflame the volatile region. I offered to hold the tape until they had time to look into incident and begin an investigation — providing me with information that would fill in some of the blanks. For those who don’t practice journalism as a profession, it may be difficult to understand why we must report stories like this at all — especially if they seem to be aberrations, and not representative of the behavior or character of an organization as a whole. The answer is not an easy one. In war, as in life, there are plenty of opportunities to see the full spectrum of good and evil that people are capable of. As journalists, it is our job is to report both — though neither may be fully representative of those people on whom we’re reporting. For example, acts of selfless heroism are likely to be as unique to a group as the darker deeds. But our coverage of these unique events, combined with the larger perspective - will allow the truth of that situation, in all of its complexities, to begin to emerge. That doesn’t make the decision to report events like this one any easier. It has, for me, led to an agonizing struggle — the proverbial long, dark night of the soul. I knew NBC would be responsible with the footage. But there were complications. We were part of a video "pool" in Falluja, and that obligated us to share all of our footage with other networks. I had no idea how our other "pool" partners might use the footage. I considered not feeding the tape to the pool — or even, for a moment, destroying it. But that thought created the same pit in my stomach that witnessing the shooting had. It felt wrong. Hiding this wouldn’t make it go away. There were other people in that room. What happened in that mosque would eventually come out. I would be faced with the fact that I had betrayed truth as well as a life supposedly spent in pursuit of it. When NBC aired the story 48-hours later, we did so in a way that attempted to highlight every possible mitigating issue for that Marine’s actions. We wanted viewers to have a very clear understanding of the circumstances surrounding the fighting on that frontline. Many of our colleagues were just as responsible. Other foreign networks made different decisions, and because of that, I have become the conflicted conduit who has brought this to the world. The Marines have built their proud reputation on fighting for freedoms like the one that allows me to do my job, a job that in some cases may appear to discredit them. But both the leaders and the grunts in the field like you understand that if you lower your standards, if you accept less, than less is what you’ll become. There are people in our own country that would weaken your institution and our nation -by telling you it’s okay to betray our guiding principles by not making the tough decisions, by letting difficult circumstances turns us into victims or worse...villains. I interviewed your Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Willy Buhl, before the battle for Falluja began. He said something very powerful at the time-something that now seems prophetic. It was this: "We’re the good guys. We are Americans. We are fighting a gentleman’s war here — because we don’t behead people, we don’t come down to the same level of the people we’re combating. That’s a very difficult thing for a young 18-year-old Marine who’s been trained to locate, close with and destroy the enemy with fire and close combat. That’s a very difficult thing for a 42-year-old lieutenant colonel with 23 years experience in the service who was trained to do the same thing once upon a time, and who now has a thousand-plus men to lead, guide, coach, mentor — and ensure we remain the good guys and keep the moral high ground." I listened carefully when he said those words. I believed them. So here, ultimately, is how it all plays out: when the Iraqi man in the mosque posed a threat, he was your enemy; when he was subdued he was your responsibility; when he was killed in front of my eyes and my camera — the story of his death became my responsibility. The burdens of war, as you so well know, are unforgiving for all of us. I pray for your soon and safe return. The underneath appeared at the top of the article on the http://bellaciao.org/ site. Editorially, TheWE.cc has moved it to the end of the report. To Devil Dogs of the 3.1: Since the shooting in the Mosque, I’ve been haunted that I have not been able to tell you directly what I saw or explain the process by which the world came to see it as well. As you know, I’m not some war zone tourist with a camera who doesn’t understand that ugly things happen in combat. I’ve spent most of the last five years covering global conflict. But I have never in my career been a ’gotcha’ reporter — hoping for people to commit wrongdoings so I can catch them at it. This week I’ve even been shocked to see myself painted as some kind of anti-war activist. Anyone who has seen my reporting on television or has read the dispatches on this website is fully aware of the lengths I’ve gone to play it straight down the middle — not to become a tool of propaganda for the left or the right. But I find myself a lightning rod for controversy in reporting what I saw occur in front of me, camera rolling. It’s time you to have the facts from me, in my own words, about what I saw — without imposing on that Marine — guilt or innocence or anything in between. I want you to read my account and make up your own minds about whether you think what I did was right or wrong. All the other armchair analysts don’t mean a damn to me. by : Bill Gallagher Tuesday 24th May 2005 |
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ITALIAN SAYS 9-11 SOLVED
It’s common knowledge, he reveals
CIA — Mossad behind terror attacks By the Staff of American Free Press
Former Italian President Francesco Cossiga, who revealed the existence of Operation Gladio, has told Italy’s oldest and most widely read newspaper that the 9-11 terrorist attacks were run by the CIA and Mossad, and that this was common knowledge among global intelligence agencies.
In what translates awkwardly into English, Cossiga told the newspaper Corriere della Sera:
“All the [intelligence services] of America and Europe… know well that the disastrous attack has been planned and realized from the Mossad, with the aid of the Zionist world in order to put under accusation the Arabic countries and in order to induce the western powers to take part … in Iraq [and] Afghanistan.”
Cossiga was elected president of the Italian Senate in July 1983 before winning a landslide election to become president of the country in 1985, and he remained until 1992.
Cossiga’s tendency to be outspoken upset the Italian political establishment, and he was forced to resign after revealing the existence of, and his part in setting up, Operation Gladio.
This was a rogue intelligence network under NATO auspices that carried out bombings across Europe in the 1960s, 1970s and ’80s.
Gladio’s specialty was to carry out what they termed 'false flag' operations — terror attacks that were blamed on their domestic and geopolitical opposition.
In March 2001, Gladio agent Vincenzo Vinciguerra stated, in sworn testimony:
“You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game.
The reason was quite simple: to force … the public to turn to the state to ask for greater security.”
Cossiga first expressed his doubts about 9-11 in 2001, and is quoted by 9-11 researcher Webster Tarpley saying:
“The mastermind of the attack must have been a sophisticated mind, provided with ample means not only to recruit fanatic kamikazes, but also highly specialized personnel.
I add one thing: it could not be accomplished without infiltrations in the radar and flight security personnel.”
Coming from a widely respected former head of state, Cossiga’s assertion that the 9-11 attacks were an inside job and that this is common knowledge among global intelligence agencies is illuminating.
It is one more eye-opening confirmation that has not been mentioned by America’s propaganda machine in print or on TV.
Nevertheless, because of his experience and status in the world, Cossiga cannot be discounted as a crackpot.
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9/11
By all accounts, the unprecedented events of September 11th, 2001 changed the way our country functions, and in turn, the world.
It is therefore critical that conscientious Americans, as well as people around the globe, understand these events in detail.
Unfortunately the official reports, including The 9/11 Commission Report and the NIST WTC Report, written by those working under the direction of the Bush Administration, have been proven to be elaborate cover-ups.
Film: 9/11 Revisited
September 11th Revisited is perhaps the most riveting film ever made about the destruction of the World Trade Center.
This is a powerful documentary which features eyewitness accounts and archived news footage that was shot on September 11, 2001 but never replayed on television.
Featuring interviews with eyewitnesses & firefighters, along with expert analysis by Professor Steven E. Jones, Professor David Ray Griffin, MIT Engineer Jeffrey King, and Professor James H. Fetzer.
This film provides stunning evidence that explosives were used in the complete demolition of the WTC Twin Towers and WTC Building 7.
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Film: 9/11 Press for Truth
An excellent documentary about the families of the victims of 9/11 and their fight to uncover and expose the truth about what happened that day.
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Film: 9/11 Mysteries
90 minutes of pure demolition evidence and analysis, laced with staggering witness testimonials.
Moving from “the myth” through “the analysis” and into “the players,” careful deconstruction of the official story set right alongside clean, clear science.
The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse?
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ESTIMATED NUCLEAR WARHEADS, STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL The United States has conducted 1,127 nuclear and thermonuclear tests — 217 in the atmosphere.
The Soviet Union/ Russia conducted 969 tests — 219 in the atmosphere.
France, 210 tests, 50 in the atmosphere.
The United Kingdom, 45 tests — 21 in the atmosphere.
China, 45 tests — 23 in the atmosphere.
India and Pakistan — 13 tests underground.
Israel — possible 1 test atmosphere South Africa 1979.
North Korea — 1 test underground, October 2006.
“The United states had drawn up a battle plan for the potential use of nuclear weapons in Iraq and the United States has been involved in planning potential nuclear use scenarios for Iran.”“The United States is now involved in a massive program to overhaul its nuclear arsenal. In fact they're working to replace every nuclear warhead and all of the existing delivery systems in the arsenal to ensure prompt precision global strike capabilities.”Jackie Cabasso — Western States Legal Foundation |
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'Oh! You don't believe the 9-11 official version,' they say.
'You mean where they want you to accept the buildings were not blown up from below.
'Plane fuel! Substance never burns higher then a gas stove! That it caused the inner core steel to melt!
'Steel melting!
'Concrete vaporizing!
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'No! I don't believe that conspiracy theory.
'Cheney! Bush! Rudy Giuliani! HA! HA!
'Tower 7 that never had a plane hit — just came tumbling down!
'You believe that, eh!
'Ever think it had to be blown up because the plane scheduled to fly into it was off getting shot down.
'Thermite in Tower 7's walls, you see — incriminating evidence — impossible to get out without people watching!
Had to be blown up!
'Next you'll be saying Obama is not a Wall Street Illuminati banker stooge?
'Take your pick: The partner in a comedy team who feeds lines to the other comedians.
'Him who allows himself to be used.
'Oh! I can't really blame you, Television it turns minds to pulp.
'Turn off the television. It's the only way.'
'Turn off the television?'
'Get rid of it really. I mean what else is there to do!'
'Get rid of the television?'
'Don't forget all radio garbage is propaganda, even the songs.
'Then those five minute propaganda hits they send you every hour!
'The ones they refer to as News
'Get rid of all the propaganda from your brain, the only way to do it.'
'Stop being hooked on those Hollywood movies — even those that make you think they are making you think'
'All paid performers to make your brain dead.
'You turn the brainwashing off, you'll begin to become yourself.
'It really is the only way!'
'Oh!'
Kewe — TheWE.cc
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We are change 9/11 lies have sustained the ruling terrorism-threat paradigm The “why” is obvious: To justify an unjust war to serve corporate interests and greed |
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Architects and Engineers for 9/11 truth A solid convincing case which architects & engineers will readily see: that the 3 WTC high-rise buildings were destroyed by both classic and novel forms of controlled demolition These buildings were professionally demolished with explosives |
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Questioning War, Organizing Resistance — Carol Brouillet Glen Clancy, from Victoria, Australia, created "Fool Me Twice" described as 'A documentary about the Australian government's lies about the East Timor massacres, the cover-up of the Bali Bombings and subsequent anti-terror laws.' The 25 year old, Clancy is Australia's Dylan Avery (of Loose Change fame). The work was originally created to be viewed online, but Clancy is working on improving the resolution for larger screen and theatrical viewing. Glen wrote (at the Fool Me Twice Blog on December 4, 2008)
To all,
After discovering 911 was an inside job, through such movies as Loose Change, Terrorstorm and Zeitgeist, I decided to investigate the Bali bombings. The evidence was overwhelming. There had been a cover-up.
As shocking as the truth may be, please keep an open mind while viewing this documentary. FOOL ME TWICE is 100% sourced. Please see reference list below. I tried to produce a documentary as true to the genre as possible, limiting opinion and simply documenting the facts.
I believe that 911 Truth is one of the most important movements of our time and exposing the cover-up of the 2002 Bali bombings can help destroy the "911/War on terror/Al-CIAda" myth.
Please help spread this information.
Kind regards,
Glen
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Americans are politically paralyzed by both cognitive dissonance and by what psychologists call “learned helplessness,” the result of years of having one outrage after another foisted upon them, without there ever being any real accountability.
So, as many truthers have discovered, the most common reactions of average Americans, when presented with the facts of 9/11, are either, “My government would never do that,” or, “Okay . . . but what can anybody do about it?”
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Before that he was with the City of Sacramento as a Firefighter Paramedic.
He first began working in Emergency Services in 1988 in the Sacramento area with a 911 private paramedic ambulance company.
He has 20 years experience in Emergency Services.
He earned my pilot's license in 1987, and have been recreationally flying since.
He graduated with a Bachelor's of Science in Mathematics from the University of California at Davis in 1993, with 2 years of elective Engineering courses, and a Minor in Psychology.
Erik wrote a moving account of his own shift in consciousness regarding 9/11 which prompted him to start Fire Fighters For 9/11 Truth entitled: MAYDAY...MAYDAY...MAYDAY.
Here's an excerpt:
I, like most Americans, remember exactly where I was when I saw the attacks and had the overwhelming urge to take action.
I was shocked, outraged, scared and confused.
I called my Battalion Chief and asked if Seattle would be sending any teams to help.
I was a member of the MMST, and figured we would be needed and I wanted to know where to report.
Due to the nature of the incident we were not called up, and instead USAR teams, including Seattle's, were sent.
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I first visited Ground Zero in October of 2001 with several firefighters from Seattle.
We went to pay our respect and show support.
We raised money for our brother firehouses and attended the funerals of our fallen Brothers.
I was deeply moved and humbled by the community support, the sheer enormity of the tragedy along with the courage and compassion of the FDNY "Brotherhood."
I vividly remember the anger, the intense desire for vengeance,the feelings of helplessness
Even though I listened to their stories for days, I cannot even begin to imagine the pain and tragedy they suffered on that day and the years to come.
I vividly remember the anger I felt, the intense desire for vengeance, and the feelings of helplessness.
I was relieved when the government identified the terrorists and satisfied that we were going to have a swift deliverance of "justice."
I've been a conservative my entire life; a registered Republican since I could vote.
I am a self proclaimed Patriot with George Washington as one of my all time heroes.
So when conspiracy theories quickly surfaced, and "Liberals" cried foul on the erosion of civil liberties, I chalked it up to their political beliefs and bitterness towards the Republican President.
I read many debunking articles — including Popular Mechanics — and watched many debunking videos including, Farenhype 9/11.
I was convinced that these "Liberals" were misinformed and were grasping at straws to discredit the "official" story.
Don't confuse me with the facts, I have my mind made up!
Like most people with strong opinions, instead of looking at all the facts, I was specifically looking for anything that supported my own beliefs.
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As soon as I discovered any inaccuracy in a conspiracy claim, I wrote it off.
My father, a big city cop and Korean War veteran, loved to say, "don't confuse me with the facts, I have my mind made up!"
Well, I had my mind made up.
I told conspiracy theorists like my own Truck Officer, Lt. Earl Emerson, that they were insane if they thought anyone other than the terrorists did this.
Bin Laden confession tapes — how much clearer did they need it
Heck, we have ID cards, security camera videos, Bin Laden confession tapes — how much clearer did they need it?
The years went on and I was satisfied in my beliefs.
I even believed these "Wackos" that doubted the "official" story were distracting our country from focusing on the real threat of terrorism...
Fast forward to March of 2008.
A great friend of mine with a Business degree from West Point, as conservative and non-conspiratorial as they get, came over one night to talk about what he saw happening in the economy.
Began researching such things as economies, who is in control of currencies
He provided some disconcerting evidence that we as a nation are at risk of entering into another depression; he pointed out historical parallels where other countries, such as Germany, suffered economic collapse.
THAT was my eye opener.
I became obsessed researching things such as economies, who is in control of currencies, what causes depressions, who profits during war, etc.
So many things kept pointing to 9/11.
Another one of my dad's favorite quotes was, "believe half of what you see and none of what you hear."
So, I looked at both sides and quickly noticed a pattern.
On one side, the general media ignores some of the most compelling evidence that contradicts the "official" story...
When I voiced my new opinion and concerns most of my friends listened.
Shocked that a staunch Conservative could have such a major shift
I think because they were shocked that a staunch Conservative could have such a major shift, or because they thought I had lost my mind and wanted to diagnose the cause.
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Curiously, some became angry at my new questions and actually thought I was supporting Terrorists with my concerns.
Being a part of that same mindset myself only a few weeks ago, and then having a major shift in consciousness, really shook me to the core.
What has happened to our collective consciousness that we believe anyone who doubts the "official" story or what the government tells us is an enemy?
What has happened to us — are we not founded on Freedom of Speech and taught to check our Government?
Anyone who asks for the Truth is labeled a "Wacko" or "Terrorist Sympathizer?"
What has happened to us?
Are we not founded on Freedom of Speech and taught to check our Government?...
To be honest, I was asleep at the wheel, and relied on what I was being told by mainstream media.
The same media whose parent corporations, are some of the largest suppliers of weapons in this war.
Before this "awakening" I had no idea the extent of our civil liberties that had been eroded in the name of Terrorism.
I had never really wrapped my brain around what legalized torture means.
I had always claimed America was noble.
Just look at how we treated POW's during WWII and Vietnam compared to our enemies.
[Ever check out the real story of John McCain as a POW, keep investigating! — TheWE.cc]
That separated us.
We were setting the example of Human Rights to the rest of the world.
[Check out the real facts of US instigations in Central and South America! — TheWE.cc]
Sure, you'll always have individuals that will take things too far, but Government sponsored torture?
[Let's mention CIA activity across the planet since its inception, including inside the US, and other black budget US government special operations agencies! — TheWE.cc]
What has happened to our country?
What kind of example are we setting for our children, and the world?
You would be interested to learn how many of our own rights have been stripped away recently.
Look up the Military Commissions Act of 2006, John Warner Defense Authorization Act, Homegrown Terrorism Act, Presidential Directive 51.
Amazing the rights we have all lost
It is amazing the rights we have all lost in the past couple of years and very little is covered by the U.S. media.
After discovering this, I applied the "common sense" test that my Grandfather always said wasn't so common.
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Why would a government so aggressively suppress truth and blatantly destroy evidence if there was nothing to hide?
Why has every testimony from sworn government and military officials that points to "prior knowledge" been stricken from the 9/11 Commission Report?
How did paper business cards, cloth bandanas, and plastic ID's that implicate the terrorists survive so neatly through jet fueled fireballs hot enough to destroy titanium and steel?
I've seen bodies burned beyond recognition, yet I have never found one that was wearing unburned clothing.
These questions alone are enough to make me risk everything for a real investigation and accounting...
When I truly realized the enormity of the effect 9/11 has had on our Rights, our Economy, our Beliefs, our Fears, our Intolerances and our Government — I felt fear, then anger, then the need to take action.
Bill Chickering said it best:
“Anger is a very appropriate and necessary response to an injustice.
“But stand back now; the truth, clearly spoken, is always your best weapon.
“Calmly spoken, it can burn a hole through the hardest heart.”
When I realized the extent of the force and attitudes working to silence those who peacefully ask questions, demand answers, and seek truth, it became clear to me that our Country is in serious trouble and I must now stand alongside those Patriots who seek Truth and Constitutional Restoration.
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Richard Gage, AIA is the founding member of Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth ae911Truth.org.
He has been a practicing Architect for 20 years and has worked on most types of building construction including numerous fire-proofed steel-framed buildings.
He is employed with a San Francisco Bay Area architecture firm and has most recently performed Construction Administration services for a new $120M High School campus including a $10M steel-framed Gymnasium.
Currently he is working on the Design Development for a very large mixed use urban project with 1.2M sq.ft. of retail and 320K sq.ft. of mid-rise office space — altogether about 1,200 tons of steel framing.
He has been one of the most tireless speakers on the issue of 9/11 truth, and more specifically on challenging the official narrative of the disintegration of the 3 major skyscrapers in the World Trade Center complex that took place on September 11th.
He has been lecturing widely across the US and in Canada.
Those who see his presentation rarely walk away still thinking that fires alone could have brought down the buildings.
When NIST came out with a report recently that fires were responsible for the destruction of WTC7, Richard and Architects and Engineers were quick to challenge that report.
See NY Times quotes Richard Gage on WTC7 "collapse"
Aside from the NYT's reporter and a media request from Bulgaria, the press has tried to ignore the serious criticisms that Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth has raised about their reports.
Richard Gage gives an insightful interview on major points that scientifically do not agree with the official story of 9/11.
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Your life, your children's lives — Will you live or die?Decided by small group of elite.Pure evil It doesn't get any clearer than this
Published on Friday, March 2, 2007 by the Los Angeles Times
US to Develop New Hydrogen Bomb
by Ralph Vartabedian
The Energy Department will announce today a contract to develop the nation's first new hydrogen bomb in two decades, involving a collaboration between three national weapons laboratories, The Times has learned.
The new bomb will include design features from all three labs, though Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the Bay Area appears to have taken the lead position in the project. The Los Alamos and Sandia labs in New Mexico will also be part of the project.
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BBC — Thursday, 6 September 2007
UK jets 'chase Russian bombers'
The UK's Royal Air Force has launched fighter jets to intercept eight Russian military planes flying in airspace patrolled by Nato, UK officials say.
Four RAF F3 Tornado aircraft were scrambled in response to the Russian action, the UK's defence ministry said.
The Russian planes - said to be long-range bombers - had earlier been followed by Norwegian F16 jets.
Russia recently revived a Cold War-era practice of flying bombers on long-range patrols.
A Norwegian officer, Lt Col John Inge Oegland, told the BBC the Russian Tupolev Tu-95 Bear bombers flew in international airspace from the Barents Sea to the Atlantic, before turning back.
Two Norwegian F-16s shadowed them on Thursday morning and another two went up later, he said.
There have been several similar incidents in recent months, Lt-Col Oegland added.
"Norway is following the increased Russian activity in the far north with interest," he told the BBC News website.
He said the Russian flights were not causing alarm in Norway. "Our systems are adequate," he said, when asked whether Norway was bolstering its security in the area. |
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The enemy has got a face — he's called Satan, he's in Falluja, and we're going to destroy him
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