Speciaal ontworpen martelmethode voor moslims: Westen laat moslims verkrachten door vechthonden

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AlterNet / By Emran Feroz

Were NATO Dogs Used to Rape Afghan Prisoners at Bagram Air Base?

Buried accounts of horrors in the U.S.-led war on terror raise questions about the 9,000 documents still withheld by the CIA.

After the release of the CIA torture report by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) the world is reeling in shock at the level of brutality revealed in the documents. In fact, the whole report is nothing more than a confession of sadistic procedures that could have been lifted from the diaries of Torquemada, from “rectal feeding” to nude beatings and humiliation — horrors that were well-known but not officially confirmed. But the report remains incomplete. Indeed, some 9000 documents have been withheld.

What new horrors could be discovered with the publication of these records?

Perhaps the most gut-wrenching story to emerge from Bagram has been buried in the German media and remains unknown to much of the world. Published by German author and former politician Juergen Todenhoefer in his latest book, "Thou Shalt Not kill, the account stems from a visit to Kabul. At a local hotel, a former Canadian soldier and private security contractor named Jack told Todenhoefer why he could not longer stand working in Bagram.

"It's not my thing when Afghans get raped by dogs,” Jack remarked.

Todenhoefer's son, who was present with him in Kabul and was transcribing Jack's words, was so startled by the comment he nearly dropped his pad and pen.

The war veteran, who loathed manipulating Western politicians even as he defended tactics of collective punishment, continued his account: Afghan prisoners were tied face down on small chairs, Jack said. Then fighting dogs entered the torture chamber.

“If the prisoners did not say anything useful, each dog got to take a turn on them,” Jack told Todenhoefer. “After procedure like these, they confessed everything. They would have even said that they killed Kennedy without even knowing who he was.”

A former member of parliament representing the right-of-center Christian Democratic Union from 1972 to 1990, Todenhoefer transformed into a fervent anti-war activist after witnessing the Soviet destruction of Aghanistan during the 1980’s. His journalism has taken him to Iraq and back to Afghanistan, where he has presented accounts of Western military interventions from the perspective of indigenous guerrilla forces. Unsurprisingly, his books have invited enormous controversy for presenting a sharp counterpoint to the war on terror’s narrative. In Germany, Todenhofer is roundly maligned by pro-Israel and US-friendly figures as a “vulgar pacifist” and an apologist for Islamic extremism. But those who have been on the other side of Western guns tend to recognize his journalism as an accurate portrayal of their harsh reality.

Though his account of dogs being used to rape prisoners at Bagram is unconfirmed, the practice is not without precedent. Female political prisoners of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet’s jails have described their torturers using dogs to rape them.

More recently, Lawrence Wright, the author of the acclaimed history of Al Qaeda, “The Looming Tower,” told National Public Radio’s Terry Gross, “One of my FBI sources said that he had talked to an Egyptian intelligence officer who said that they used the dogs to rape the prisoners. And it would be hard to tell you how humiliating it would be to any person, but especially in Islamic culture where dogs are such a lowly form of life. It's, you know, that imprint will never leave anybody's mind.”

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I spoke to an Afghan named Mohammad who worked as an interpreter in Bagram and insisted on anonymity for fear of reprisals. He told me Todenhoefer’s account of dogs being used to rape prisoners in the jail was “absolutely realistic.”

Mohammad worked primarily with US forces in Bagram, taking the job out of financial desperation. He soon learned what a mistake he had made. "When I translated for them, I often knew that the detainee was anything but a terrorist,” he recalled. “Most of them were poor farmers or average guys.”

However, Mohammad was compelled to keep silent while his fellow countrymen were brutally tortured before his eyes. "I often felt like a traitor, but I needed the money,” he told me. “I was forced to feed my family. Many Afghan interpreters are in the very same situation.”

A "traitor" is also what the Taliban think about guys like Mohammad. It is well-known that they make short-shrift of interpreters they catch. Mohammad has since left Afghanistan for security reasons and is reluctant to offer explicit details of the interrogations sessions he participated in. However, he insisted that Todenhoefer’s account accurately captured the horrors that unfolded behind the walls of Bagram.
"Guantanamo is a paradise if you compare it with Bagram,” Muhammad said.

Waheed Mozhdah, a well-known political analyst and author based in Kabul, echoed Muhammad’s account. "Bagram is worse than Guantanamo,” Mozdah told me, “and all the crimes, even the most cruel ones like the dog story, are well known here but most people prefer to not talk about it.”
Hometown for soldiers, hellhole for inmates

It is hard to imagine what more hideous acts of torment remain submerged in the chronicles of America’s international gulag archipelago. Atrocities alleged to a German journalist by a former detainee at the US military’s Bagram Airbase in Kabul, Afghanistan, suggest that the worst horrors may be too much for the public to stomach.

Bagram Airbase is the largest base the US constructed in Afghanistan and also one of the main theaters of its torture regime. You have to drive about one and a half hour from Kabul to reach the prison where hundreds of supposedly high-value detainees were held. The foundations of the base are much older, laid by the Soviets in the 1950s, when the last king of Afghanistan, Mohammad Zahir, maintained friendly connections with Moscow. Later, during the Soviet occupation, Bagram as the main control center for the Red Army.

Known as the "second Guantanamo,” even though conditions at Bagram are inarguably worse, you will find the dark dungeons, which were mentioned in the latest CIA report, next to American fast food restaurants. During the US occupation, the military complex in Bagram became like a small town for soldiers, spooks and contractors. In this hermetically sealed hellhole, the wanton abuse of human rights existed comfortably alongside the "American Way of Life.”

One of the persons sucked into the parallel world of Bagram was Raymond Azar, a manager of a construction company. Azar, a citizen of Lebanon, was on his way to the US military base near the Afghan Presidential Palace known as Camp Eggers when 10 armed FBI agents suddenly surrounded him. The agents handcuffed him, tied him up and shoved him into an SUV. Some hours later Azar found himself in the bowels of Bagram.

According to Azar’s testimony, he was forced to sit for seven hours while his hands and feet were tied to a chair. He spent the whole night in a cold metal container. His tormentors denied him food for 30 hours. Azar also claimed that the military officers showed him photos of his wife and four children, warning him that unless he cooperated he would never see his family again. Today we know that officers and agents have threatened prisoners with their relatives’ the rape or murder.

Azar had nothing to do with Al Qaida or the Taliban. In fact, he caught in the middle of a classic web of corruption. The businessman's company had signed phony contracts with the Pentagon for reconstruction work in Afghanistan. Later, Azar was accused of having attempted to bribe the U.S. Army contact to secure the military contracts for his company. This was not the sort of crime for which a suspect is normally sent to a military prison. To date, no one has explained why the businessman was absconded to Bagram.

Most prisoners from Bagram are not rich business men or foreign workers from abroad, but average Afghan men who had a simple life before they had been kidnapped. One of these men was Dilawar Yaqubi, a taxi driver and farmer from Khost, Eastern Afghanistan. After five days of brutal torture in Bagram, Yaqubi was declared as dead on December 10th 2002. His legs had been “pulpified” by his interrogators, who maintained that they were simply acting according to guidelines handed down to them by the Pentagon and approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The case of the Afghan taxi driver’s killing was highlighted in the Oscar-winning documentary "Taxi to the Dark Side.” The film established that Yaqubi had simply been at the the wrong place at the wrong time. His family, his daughter and his wife, are waiting for justice.

(Watch the full version of Taxi To The Dark Side here).

A US-backed government of rapists, warlords and torturers

The latest CIA torture report is focused entirely on the crimes of the Bush administration. But it should not be forgotten that the horrors that have plagued Afghanistan continued under Barack Obama's watch. When Afghanistan's new president, Ashraf Ghani, entered power two months ago, the first thing he did was sign a Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with the US. According to the terms of this bogus deal negotiated without the consent or agreement of the Afghan public, the Afghan judiciary is forbidden from prosecuting criminal US soldiers in Afghanistan. This means that any American, whether a torturer or a drone operator who destroys a family with the push of a button, is above the law.

During the last days of his presidency, Hamid Karzai railed against the bilateral agreement, while other Afghan critics described it as a “colonial pact.” Karzai knew that his signature on the deal would damn him in the annals of history. On his way out, Karzai condemned the US occupation and remarked that Bagram had become “a terrorism factory,” radicalizing waves of men through torture and isolation. The responsible hands in Washington did not look kindly on Karzai’s sudden transformation into a man of the people.

Now that Karzai is gone, Ghani is doing all he can to prove his absolute obedience towards the US. According to different reports, currently he sits down for tea each week with various NATO commanders and generals, listening to their concerns and doing all he can to accommodate them. Ghani has reversed Karzai's decrees regarding night-raids and NATO bombings and encouraged the Afghan National Army — a corrupt and criminal gang built and trained by the US military — to fight "terrorism" without mercy. Regarding the torture report, Ghani said that the described practices are "inhuman,” even as his actions bely his empty protestations.

On December 10th 2014, exactly twelve years after the brutal murder of Dilawar Yaqubi and just one day after the CIA torture report's release, the US Defense Departement announced it has closed the Bagram detention center once and for all. Yet it is not known how many secret prisons still exist in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, most elements in the Afghan government are absolutely loyal to the United States and know that they would lose power and financial support without them. The country’s new Vice President, Abdul Rashid Dostum, is a widely reviled warlord and militia leader who killed, tortured and personally oversaw the rape of countless Afghan civilians. His crimes are well documented by the world's leading human rights organizations. Alongside other warlords notorious for human trafficking and sundry crimes operate alongside an Afghan intelligence service (NDS) that regularly engages in brutal abuse while tendering US salaries.

In an Afghanistan still dominated by Western interests and American power, the torture never stops.



Were NATO Dogs Used to Rape Afghan Prisoners at Bagram Air Base? | Alternet

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'Martelpraktijken gebaseerd op Algerijnse oorlog'

Door Julio Godoy

PARIJS, 29 juni 2004 (IPS) - Het soort martelingen dat Iraakse gevangenen moesten ondergaan in de gevangenis van Abu Ghraib lijken sterk op de methodes die het Franse leger gebruikte tijdens de Algerijnse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog. De gelijkenis is te sterk om op toeval te berusten, zeggen Franse historici en journalisten. De 'french connection' zou best de veroordeelde Franse generaal Paul Aussaresses kunnen zijn.

Dat de martelingen in de Abu Ghraib speciaal voor moslims ontworpen leken, was menig waarnemer al opgevallen. "Zo'n vernederingen zijn vreselijk voor een moslim", zegt Claire Mauss-Copeau, professor Magrebgeschiedenis aan de Sorbonne, verwijzend naar de foto's van naakte gevangenen die worden geïntimideerd met honden. "In de islamitische traditie zijn honden onreine wezens. Naakt getoond worden aan andere mensen, vooral aan vrouwen, is de ergste vorm van vernedering voor een mannelijke moslim", zegt de historica.

"Het is overduidelijk dat het Amerikaanse leger de kennis heeft toegepast die het Franse leger in de jaren 50 in Algerije heeft opgedaan", zegt Mauss-Copeau. "Toen ik de foto's zag, moest ik meteen terugdenken aan documenten die ik in Algerije had gezien in de jaren '50", zegt journalist Jacques Duquesne, de hoofdredacteur van het Franse weekblad L'Express. Duquesne was verslaggever tijdens de Algerijnse Onafhankelijkheidsoorlog die het Franse leger tussen 1954 en 1962 uitvocht met de FLN, de Algerijnse guerrillabeweging. "In Algerije maakte het leger frequent gebruik van wat onze soldaten 'la gegene' noemde, elektroshocks in de schaamstreek", zegt Duquesne. "De foto's uit Abu Ghraib zouden in Algerije genomen kunnen zijn."

De Algerijnse onafhankelijkheidsoorlog was de eerste moderne oorlogsvoering tegen een guerrillabeweging. Het Franse leger bekwaamde zich gedurende enkele jaren in marteltechnieken en standrechtelijke executies. Er werden lessen geleerd die later in Vietnam en Latijns-Amerika werden toegepast.

Marie-Monique Robin, TV-journaliste en producer van een documentaire over het Franse aandeel van de antirebellencampagnes in Zuid-Amerika in de jaren '70, wijst op het bestaan van een 'French connection'. De generaals die vochten in Algerije, gaven later les aan Amerikaanse militaire academies. "Generaal Paul Aussaresses, de op één na hoogste Franse officier op het eind van de jaren '50 in Algerije, gaf tussen 1960 en 1963 les aan Fort Bragg." Fort Bragg is het hoofdkwartier van het bevel van de Amerikaanse 'special operations', de militaire eenheid die gespecialiseerd is in psychologische oorlogsvoering, waaronder ook martelpraktijken.

Aussaresses gaf ook les aan de Argentijnse en Braziliaanse militaire academies tijdens de jaren '70. Hij de belangrijkste bedenker van het martelbeleid van de Franse bezetter in Algerije. Aussaresses gaf één en ander toe in zijn boek 'Algerije, speciale troepen 1955-1957', dat gepubliceerd werd in 2001. "Martelen was efficiënt", schrijft hij daarin. "De meerderheid van de mensen breken en praten. Meestal doodden we hen daarna. Gaf dat gewetensproblemen? Ik moet zeggen van niet. Ik was gewoon aan dat soort zaken." In 2002 legde een Franse rechtbank Aussaresses een boete van 8.000 dollar op voor zijn uitspraken. Het leger ontnam hem alle decoraties en verbood hem nog langer het uniform te dragen.

Het is overigens nog maar de vraag of de martelingen en standrechtelijke executies zo efficiënt waren als de generaal beweert. Het Franse leger raakte erdoor in diskrediet en de praktijken versterkten de onafhankelijkheidsbeweging. Uiteindelijk aanvaardde Parijs onder generaal Charles de Gaulle in 1962 de Algerijnse onafhankelijkheid.

Bron: De Waarheid 29/06/04



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[Olive Yao]

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Dit over Algerije had ik al eens vernomen. Voelt toch weer als een schopje in mn maag.

[Bouyizen]

ja jonge! Zo zie je maar. Zie die marokkaanse uitdrukking'. Ergherb 'n Outhay!!

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AlterNet / By Emran Feroz

Were NATO Dogs Used to Rape Afghan Prisoners at Bagram Air Base?

Buried accounts of horrors in the U.S.-led war on terror raise questions about the 9,000 documents still withheld by the CIA.

After the release of the CIA torture report by Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA) the world is reeling in shock at the level of brutality revealed in the documents. In fact, the whole report is nothing more than a confession of sadistic procedures that could have been lifted from the diaries of Torquemada, from “rectal feeding” to nude beatings and humiliation — horrors that were well-known but not officially confirmed. But the report remains incomplete. Indeed, some 9000 documents have been withheld.

What new horrors could be discovered with the publication of these records?

Perhaps the most gut-wrenching story to emerge from Bagram has been buried in the German media and remains unknown to much of the world. Published by German author and former politician Juergen Todenhoefer in his latest book, "Thou Shalt Not kill, the account stems from a visit to Kabul. At a local hotel, a former Canadian soldier and private security contractor named Jack told Todenhoefer why he could not longer stand working in Bagram.

"It's not my thing when Afghans get raped by dogs,” Jack remarked.

Todenhoefer's son, who was present with him in Kabul and was transcribing Jack's words, was so startled by the comment he nearly dropped his pad and pen.

The war veteran, who loathed manipulating Western politicians even as he defended tactics of collective punishment, continued his account: Afghan prisoners were tied face down on small chairs, Jack said. Then fighting dogs entered the torture chamber.

“If the prisoners did not say anything useful, each dog got to take a turn on them,” Jack told Todenhoefer. “After procedure like these, they confessed everything. They would have even said that they killed Kennedy without even knowing who he was.”

A former member of parliament representing the right-of-center Christian Democratic Union from 1972 to 1990, Todenhoefer transformed into a fervent anti-war activist after witnessing the Soviet destruction of Aghanistan during the 1980’s. His journalism has taken him to Iraq and back to Afghanistan, where he has presented accounts of Western military interventions from the perspective of indigenous guerrilla forces. Unsurprisingly, his books have invited enormous controversy for presenting a sharp counterpoint to the war on terror’s narrative. In Germany, Todenhofer is roundly maligned by pro-Israel and US-friendly figures as a “vulgar pacifist” and an apologist for Islamic extremism. But those who have been on the other side of Western guns tend to recognize his journalism as an accurate portrayal of their harsh reality.

De vlag van IS wappert bij de Syrische grensplaats Kobane. Foto vrijgegeven door IS. © AFP

Eerste westerse journalist teruggekeerd uit kalifaat: IS is 'sterker' dan we denken

De eerste westerse journalist ter wereld die uitgebreid toegang heeft gekregen tot de Islamitische Staat (IS) in Syrië en Irak, is uit de regio teruggekeerd met een waarschuwing: IS is 'veel sterker en veel gevaarlijker' dan het Westen beseft.

Door: Redactie 21 december 2014, 22:31

Jürgen Todenhöfer, 74, is een gerenommeerde Duitse journalist en publicist. Na maanden van onderhandelingen met de leiders van de groep reisde hij via Turkije naar Mosul, de grootste stad die IS bezet, zo meldt de Independent.

Todenhöfer is van plan om morgen een samenvatting van zijn 'tien dagen in de Islamitische Staat' te publiceren, maar in interviews met Duitstalige media heeft hij zijn eerste indrukken van het leven onder IS al een klein beetje onthuld. Tegen de Duitse website Dertz zei Todenhöfer dat hij in hetzelfde hotel in Benghazi verbleef als James Foley, de Amerikaanse journalist die in augustus werd onthoofd door IS.

Todenhöfer zegt dat zijn indruk is 'dat IS veel sterker is dan we hier denken'. IS wordt ondersteund door 'een bijna extatische enthousiasme dat ik nog nooit ben tegengekomen in enig ander oorlogsgebied'.

'Elke dag, komen er honderden strijders uit alle hoeken van de wereld die bereid zijn om te sterven voor IS', zegt hij tegen Dertz. 'Voor mij is het onbegrijpelijk.'

Todenhöfer zegt dat IS niet kan worden verslagen door westerse interventie of luchtaanvallen - ondanks dat de VS vorige week nog beweerde dat dit effectief is gebleken. 'Met elke bom die valt en een burger raakt, neemt het aantal terroristen toe'.

Wat Todenhöfer het meeste zorgen baart is dat IS-strijders 'de overtuiging hebben dat alle religies die het eens zijn met de democratie moeten sterven.'

De boodschap die continu wordt herhaald, is dat IS 'de wereld wil veroveren' en iedereen die niet gelooft in hun interpretatie van de Koran zal worden gedood.



Erasmus Institut @Erasmus_Vogel

German former lawmaker Jürgen Todenhöfer meets ISIS fighters.
19:54 - 16 december 2014


Eerste westerse journalist teruggekeerd uit kalifaat: IS is 'sterker' dan we denken | Islamitische Staat | de Volkskrant


zo 21 dec 2014, 18:59
Duitse journalist verbleef in IS-gebied

BERLIJN - Een Duitse journalist heeft naar eigen zeggen tien dagen in Syrië doorgebracht bij terreurorganisatie Islamitische Staat, met toestemming van IS. De 74-jarige Jürgen Todenhöfer uit München is onlangs veilig teruggekeerd naar Duitsland, schrijven Duitse media.


Foto: Reuters

De verslaggever wilde naar het gebied omdat hij al 50 jaar met alle partijen praat, schrijft hij op zijn Facebookpagina. Hij onderhandelde maandenlang via Skype met leiders van het kalifaat over zijn journalistieke bezoek.

IS is volgens hem machtiger, gevaarlijker en slimmer dan veel westerse politici vermoeden. IS zou van plan zijn honderden miljoenen mensen uit te roeien. Joden en christenen zouden daarbij worden gespaard.

Volgens Todenhöfer is IS niet alleen een terreurorganisatie, maar ook een redelijk functionerende staat. Hij meent dat het IS-probleem niet louter militair op te lossen is.


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[Bouyizen]

[Charlus]

IS is volgens hem machtiger, gevaarlijker en slimmer dan veel westerse politici vermoeden. IS zou van plan zijn honderden miljoenen mensen uit te roeien. Joden en christenen zouden daarbij worden gespaard.

Een speciaal talent van jou is het highlighten van die secties met het meeste vrijblijvende en tegelijkertijd insinuerende gezwets.
Volgens hem, dus alleen een mening.
Machtiger, gevaarlijker en slimmer dan veel westerse politici vermoeden. Hoe weet hij om te beginnen wat 'veel' westerse politici vermoeden?
En ja hoor, hoe kan het ook anders: zou van plan zijn, zouden daarbij worden gespaard.

Lemme guess. Er zal wel een kern van waarheid in zitten? Waar rook is...?

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Met je kalkoen

23 december 2014 om 21:09 door Jan Dijkgraaf

Jan Dijkgraaf

Als jij met Kerstmis met je kalkoen in de weer gaat, sta dan even stil bij de bewakers in de Extra Beveiligde Inrichting (EBI) in Vught.

Op het moment dat jij je mengsel van brood, citroenrasp, ui, boter en kruiden in het hol van dat beest staat te proppen, vragen de bewakers in de EBI aan jihadstrijder Abou Moussa en zijn vriendjes of zij even willen bukken. Opdat de hongerstakende fundamentalistische moslimmannetjes gevisiteerd kunnen worden.

Laten wij een diepe buiging maken voor de bewakers die hun hand in die konten stopt, voor jouw en mijn veiligheid.

Enne... eet smakelijk!


Met je kalkoen | metronieuws.nl

[HaasHaas]

wat een ziekelijke wereld. en dat durft zich nog beschaafd te noemen.