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GORDON DUFF: FREEING DR. AAFIA, A MATTER OF HONOR
THE SERVICE AND SACRIFICE OF ALL AMERICAN WAR VETERANS IS AT STAKE
MY HONOR IS NOT FOR SALE, NOT FOR A LIE
By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor
Veterans Today Editors, Jeff Gates, Raja Mujtaba and I were in the AF-Pak region over the last couple of weeks. Jeff and I are Vietnam veterans, Raja a decorated combat veteran, tank commander, from the India/Pakistan war. We met dozens of Pakistani military, including nearly all of their highest ranking retired officers, from Admiral Sirohey, Chairman of their Joint Chiefs of Staff to General Alsam Beg, Head of the Army to Lt. General Hamid Gul, former head of the ISI. In our party were our other Veterans Today contributors, BG Asif Haroon Raja and BG Raza Ali, of “Charlie Wilson’s War” fame.
Today, I received an email from Admiral Sirohey. His office is lined with memorabilia from a long career of service, service as an ally and friend of the United States. Sirohey and the rest were America’s most stalwart allies during the Cold War. These were the real allies that helped us bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union. I was honored to be among them. Today Admiral Sirohey is scheduled to attend a rally protesting the illegal kidnapping, brutalizing and conviction of Dr. Affia Siddiqui. America’s best friends in Asia, the finest soldiers in the world are horrified at what we have done.
Can it be that bad?
VETERANS TODAY EDITORS RAJA MUJTABA AND JEFF GATES, ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN, FEBRUARY 2010 (PHOTO BY GORDON DUFF)
The Bush administration, when it saw its “War on Terror” wasn’t getting enough suspects, hired drug cartel members and criminal elements to kidnap innocent civilians to fill our secret prisons. Yes, we actually did this. In this case, we kidnapped a mother with 3 children, tortured her for years, murdered a small child and then charged her with attempting to murder her captors after years in a secret prison on Bagram Air Force Base.
Every soldier on that base, everyone who has served there has to live with the dishonor of this act until something is done. Remember when America, after World War II painted the people of Germany with the stain of guilt for not knowing about the death camps? Tell me what is different here? We didn’t know that druglords and gangsters were stealing people off the street to fill our prisons with “terror suspects” so Bush/Ashcroft and Cheney could crow about their successes?
If you didn’t know before, this is what all the secret “torture memos” were all about, not real terrorists, but innocent people we “bought” as though we were slave runners of old.
A few years after we bought our phony terror suspects, tortured, raped and brutalized them, most were released. They had committed no crime other than to be standing on the wrong dark street corner when the druglords working for Bush were out hunting “meat” for America’s gulags.
Dr. Aafia had to be convicted, had to be jailed and silenced. The crimes against her and her children were so heinous, only a kangaroo court in America, a country whose news is orchestrated by the Islam hating MSM/Corporate media and powerful Israeli/AIPAC lobby would have the audiacity to bring her to trial.
Do we need to review the case? Remember the OJ case? He was released because of a glove not fitting. Dr. Aafia was shot by the “translator” during her “debriefing.”
She has a Doctorate from an American university. She comes from a country where everyone speaks English. “If the translator doesn’t fit, you must acquit!”
Do we now call a person with a cattle prod a “translator?”
When the My Lai massacre happened, I was with a Marine unit less than 50 miles away. All of us who were there then, not so many are around any more, carry the stain of that dishonor and have for decades. I can talk of honor or service but all people see is babies and their mothers, shot to death, lining the bottom of a ditch.
It is a matter of honor.
There are no “secret prisons” and nobody is tortured without someone knowing about it. We are all responsible, I don’t care if you are serving in Iraq or Afghanistan or anywhere around the world, active duty, reserve, National Guard, retiree or veteran. We are nearly 30 million strong. Many of us don’t have much, memories, wounds, a small pension and our honor.
Our silence strips our honor away.
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui was not a terrorist. The newspapers lied, we all know why. Either she is guilty or we all are. Better to destroy her than to arrest those guilty of real crimes, arrest people some of us voted into high office.
“We were just taking orders.”
Where have we heard that before, Nuremberg? It isn’t just this one life. We already killed over a million people in our ill fated invasion of Iraq.
Fog of War. We know better, everyone with eyes to see knows better, know it now. Then why are we still acting like criminals? No more lies. We are at war, a war with real enemies. We have so little, our short lives, our families and what we believe in.
Did a tiny crippled woman, illegally imprisoned for years try to murder a room of FBI, Special Forces and Blackwater/CIA operatives?
I can tell you this: If I get my butt kicked by a 100 pound woman in a wheel chair, you won’t see me in front of a jury in New York City crying for my mama.
The only possible answer is that everyone involved in the trial of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is a liar. Nothing else is possible. I know why they lied, they were ordered to “for the good of the service.” Was there something in the oath involving “protect and defend the Constitution of the United States of America unless told to lie for the good of the service?”
What are we protecting?
Once the public learns that we are buying phony terror suspects from the worlds largest drug dealers, people we are protecting, people flooding our streets with narcotics, there might be problems. Best not let the public know why we never found those weapons of mass destruction, that yellow cake uranium, those mobile bio-weapons labs or why our continual search for Osama bin Laden keeps failing.
The deal of the century, destroying an innocent life and earning the hate of a valued ally, all to stand behind the lies and rhetoric of America’s “dark age.” We would be lucky if it were only every citizen of Pakistan that was enraged at us for this travesty. It is worse, far worse.
Who are the real terrorists? In Pakistan, Admiral Sirohey, friend to half a dozen American Presidents is heading to a peaceful protest. What can we, Americans, claim? If kidnapping, torture, rape and covering it up by letting the victim rot in prison isn’t terrorism, I don’t know what is.
We should be thankful for that seat on the UN Security Council. We may need it for more than covering up for Israel. The next nation facing sanctions for international crimes may be us. All that stands between us and being cut off from the world is our veto. All that is keeping an entire administration from War Crimes trials is the Bush administrations withdrawal from the International Criminal Court at the Hague.
Why is President Obama allowing the outrages of the Bush administration to continue?
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“Why is President Obama allowing the outrages of the Bush administration to continue?” Perhaps he’s their goat.
WITH ALLAH’S NAME, THE MOST MERCIFUL, THE MOST COMPASSIONATE
What a Shame Zaka Fasi!
Dr. Anwar Ul Haque
There is no dearth of finding people who will serve their masters. Smart masters create generations of such servants. As long as you throw meat and bones to them; they do not mind serving the masters at whatever the cost of their dignity, honor and respect as they have none of these. Such are the people among journalists wearing red, yellow, green, blue glasses and see what they want to see.
Zaka Fasi’ article today in the The News on Dr. Aafia is an example where Mr. Zaka has sold out his Zakawat (Intelligence) and has lost his Fasihness (Articulation). He comes out as a dumb, blind and idiotic person. He appears to have an I.Q. of less than a Down syndrome baby. No doubt he is a chubby and a baby face person but to have such a low I.Q. is very difficult to believe.
He like some of his comrades suffer from immense Islamophobia and super anaphylactic reaction against Islam and Muslims. These people go into fits and make it kosher to do any thing to Islam and say any thing about good Muslims. Abu Jahila and Abdull ibn-e Ubbai have not died; they are very much alive albeit in different shapes and forms. Their dirty and ugly faces we can see around.
Let us see what Fasi Zaki is saying:
1) He is saying hat American courts never do wrong. If they have proven Dr. Aafia’s so called second marriage; it must be right! How they proved does not concern Zaka. When Dr. Aafia was divorced, she was in iddat period with a young infant of about 3 months. She was living with her parents. Her husband pushed her father resulting in his heart attack. Can you imagine a devout Muslima breaking Allah’s orders and marrying in Iddat period! As a matter of fact she never met Al-Baluchi who is supposed to a cousin of Yousuf Ramzy. Yousuf Ramzy as many know is a CIA worker and most likely not a Muslim. He accepts the responsibility of whatever CIA asks him to do. Long back I had written a detailed article on him which was published in Daily Jang Karachi giving details about his false passports and his girl friends in Manila. Al-Baluchi is thus a Zionist/ CIA fabrication
2) Dr. Aafia is not the first case where American courts have given a wrong verdict. In case of first attack on World Trade Center by Moosad agent Josie Hadas with CNN breaking news showing bomb material and drawing etc in her New York apartment, she was sent safely to Israel while her innocent driver Salameh was imprisoned for life in the worst possible form and shape. Slameh’s American non Muslim lawyer said that “This was the worst massacre of justice in the history of United States”.
3) For people like Mr. Zaka Fasi abducting people including children of 7, 3 and ½ years is OK. Keeping them In prison for years is OK. Raping them and beating them without trail is OK. Stripping and searching naked is OK. Raping a defenseless frail woman is OK. Lying and lying is OK.
With these above attributes Mr. Zaka Fasi you and your comrades certainly do not qualify to be even an animal, let alone to be a human being. You are the lowest of the low as Quran-e-Majeed describes in Surah At-Teen. You have no intellect and you have no conscious; you are merely a dead body with no mind, ears and eyes.
Anwar Ul Haque
116. St. 49 F 11/3 Islamabad 44000
Phone 0335129849
Dr. Anwar ul Haque!
Is your mother pregnant with Zaka Fasi’s baby?
Read the article he wrote you Muslim vegetable head, or are you putting a towel over your eyes because one of you finally used his brain.
Mr. Jones,
I thought you died years ago of poisoining with your followers.
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GD,
You identify the cause of my demise correctly, fanaticism. The same fanaticism I see in the post by your reader who spreads poisoning.
He talking about this http://news.google.com.pk/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=en_pk&hl=en&q=zaka+fasi
I appreciate you are working to the needs of your conscience. But be weary of people like the doctor who uses your work to justify militant Islamism. The bed fellows you keep are your choice.
When they cannot keep things rational, we all suffer
Jim,
The Siddiqui case is going to bite the USA in the behind. It is a cheap frame up job entirely. There is culpability in Pakistan also. She was sold to the US by a relative of a former head of state now in hiding.
I am not recommending you visit Pakistan. The flight alone nearly killed me. These are people who depend on the United States. They are hardly fanatics.
We are like there better than in Britain, by a long shot, Germany too.
Siddiqui isn’t the only one arrested out of insanity during the Bush administration. Look up Mark Siljander on wikipedia.
g
Your dirty language and your sick mind is reflected by your comments about my late mother. Allah who had created you will take care of you for supporting injustice through abusing His given blessings. If you do not repent, you will enjoy eternal fire where your skin will be changed after it is roasted. You will like to repent then but it would be too late.
Dr Haq deserves praise for his views. People like Zaka Fasi are the modern day Mir Jaffers & Mir Sadiqs who are always used by their white skinned masters and then dumped in the dustbins of time forever….
What is being done – allowed to be done – by the US Government is incomprehensibly
inhuman – evil – and very very stupid. The US Government and with that Mr Obama please get us the change we belived in – the change we could take to the bank !!! And from now on begin to deliver that change – Start with releasing this Pakistani woman – she has suffered enough – take this chance to do some good – and then continue – have some courage to admit you were wrong – Thank God for people like Gordon Duff – who see / look / understand and walk the talk we need more of you to speak up and make a difference before its too late – time is running out -
Dont bother Dr Haq Sahib, Zaka Fasi would wtite a similar piece even if the americans had kidnapped his own real sister or mother! because the US embasy has shoved up enough dollar bills up his bottom to kill all traces of self respect in characterless lot like him….feelings like Eemaan, ghairat or IZZAT are allien to them…. May they lick the yankees for ever…..
Babar,
You are giving off bad vibes.
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