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Obama’s Torture Chief Omar Suleiman (who Caused the Egyptian Revolution with Mubarak) Suddenly Gets Dead

5:43 am in Uncategorized by normanb

Obama’s Torture Chief Omar Suleiman (who Caused the Egyptian Revolution with Mubarak) Suddenly Gets Dead — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

 

Omar Suleiman, who Tortured victims for Barack Obama and George W. Bush, mysteriously got dead in a US hospital today, where he was supposedly being tested for something undisclosed. Clearly, the person who benefits from this killing the most is President Obama. Interestingly, Barack Obama claims that he is allowed to order Murders against Arabs anywhere in the world. Omar Suleiman is an Arab.

In fact, according to Medea Benjamin’s LinkTV lecture, President Obama’s policy regarding beards is: If a man or boy has a beard and is killed by a drone, that man was a “militant.” The implication is that killing a man or boy with a beard is always OK to do. Omar Suleiman has a beard. Had. http://www.linktv.org/programs/medea-benjamin-drone-warfare

President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and then-CIA-director-now-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, incompetents all, were all into sending their Torture victims to Omar Suleiman in Fascist Egypt. http://www.opednews.com/articles/Obama-s-gambit-Holding-Eg-by-Wayne-Madsen-110204-704.html

Suleiman was also into rigging the election in Gaza. We wouldn’t want any testifying about that, would we? http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/07/why-we-were-unprepared-for-hamas-2006-victory-in-gaza/

Under insistence from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Obama, Suleiman was christened Vice President of Egypt, late in President Hosni Mubarak’s Fascist 30-year reign of terror. Suleiman’s death prevents him from testifying about his Torture for the US Presidents, after Obama and Bush had their victims illegally “renditioned.” He was being sued for Torture by Australian victim Mahmoud Habib. http://my.firedoglake.com/valtin/2011/04/26/rendition-victim-mamdouh-habib-sues-omar-suleiman-for-torture/

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2011/s3192562.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/aug/06/guantanamo.australia

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/07/hillary-cant-decide-whether-to-impose-democracy-or-not/

http://www.tenterfieldstar.com.au/news/national/national/general/habib-overwhelmed-by-egypt-welcome/2250419.aspx

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2011/02/06/claiming-consensus-omar-suleiman-promises-to-hold-protesters-accountable/

President Obama’s policies toward Arabs, Muslims, people with beards, and his other Torture and Murder/Assassination victims, these policies are Hate Crimes. America, you should be ashamed of yourself.

http://my.firedoglake.com/normanb/2011/02/04/as-obamas-egyptian-torture-team-shoots-doctors-his-yemeni-programs-to-assassinate-muslims-and-bomb-citizens-spark-revolution/

http://my.firedoglake.com/normanb/2011/02/17/tiananmen-update-obama-thugs-torture-journalists-activists-and-murder-pro-democracy-protesters-in-yemen-bahrain/

http://my.firedoglake.com/normanb/2011/02/03/right-now-obama-suleiman-torture-brigade-egyptian-army-attack-round-up-journalists-activists/

http://my.firedoglake.com/normanb/2011/02/02/right-now-anderson-cooper-attacked-by-obamas-torture-regime-suleimans-thugs/

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/tag/omar-suleiman/

 

by normanb

Tiananmen Update: Obama Thugs Torture Journalists, Activists; and Murder Pro-Democracy Protesters

12:32 am in Uncategorized by normanb

Tiananmen Update: Obama Thugs Torture Journalists, Activists; and Murder Pro-Democracy Protesters — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

In Yemen and Bahrain, Government forces loyal to President Obama [and to his puppet dictators Ali Abdullah Saleh and the Al Khalifa Dynasty, respectively] are now Torturing journalists and activists [with beatings, rubber bullets, teargas, other methods]. Obama’s thugs are murdering many peaceful pro-democracy protesters.

Al Jazeera’s live “crawl” info across the bottom of its screen gives the running death toll. Enforcers armed by the Obama Administration are also attacking non-violent democracy demonstrators in Iraq.

President Obama tonight (in a move that was hypocritical, irresponsible, and deceptive) seized on reports of violence in Iran for an opportunity to lie publicly about the revolution in Egypt. Obama claimed that the Iranian Government’s response differed from the Egyptian Government’s response in that the Egyptian forces had refrained from shooting at the protesters.

That was a blatant lie. A Suleiman thug shot a journalist through the head, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Obama still supported turning the Egyptian Government over from Mubarak to Suleiman. The latest count says the Obama-Suleiman thugs murdered 364 Egyptian activists and reporters.

The President also pretended to be unaware that his forces (people he’s paying) are Torturing and killing peaceful pro-democracy demonstrators in Yemen, Bahrain, and Iraq.

The US Administration seems determined to stay on the wrong side of history. Secretary Clinton this week assured the Yemeni Government that hundreds of millions of dollars more in weapons are coming, apparently to aid in the crackdown on democracy.

The US has sent Coward Drones, operated by cowards in the US and elsewhere, to kill and terrorize the people of Yemen, the poorest populace in the Middle East.

The $170 million the Obama Administration gave Saleh last year comprises two-thirds of the quarter-billion dollars the US sent him in the past decade. Hence, the thugs Torturing and murdering peaceful civilians there for merely asserting their Human Rights are American forces, contract killers for the Greater Chicago area, paid by US.

President Obama has claimed that his position as President of Greater Chicago [and de facto leader of the Daley Machine/Capone Syndicate] grants him authority to order gangland-style hits – assassinations against Muslims anywhere in the world.

The President has been especially adamant on his presumed righteousness in sending hitmen into Yemen, where he intends to have his thugs murder American-born Pentagon confidant Anwar Al-Awlaki. Obama alleges that Al-Awlaki “inspired” a crime and a fake bomb.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/10/21/rumsfelds-defense-department-invited-anwar-al-awlaki-into-pentagon-after-911/

There allegedly was a time when the United States stood for something more. I’ve been conditioned to believe there was a time when the US Government did not order hitmen to murder people merely suspected of crime. That same system had me believing that Americans don’t Torture. President Pinocchio said as much.

The US news media, I’m conditioned to believe, used to report when the Government was involved in corruption. Now, every day, Al Jazeera demonstrates how inept US reporting has become. In 1991, CNN rocketed to prominence because it was the only US 24-hour news network. Now, 20 years later, we have none. US media falling down on the job propelled Al Jazeera to prominence, as Americans got a taste of legitimate journalism not even being attempted by ABCNNBCBS or Fox.

The Democratic Party, I think, used to complain about corruption in Government. The Democratic Party, I think, used to stand up against Torture and injustice. The Democratic Party used to stand for honesty and decency. Times sure have changed.

by normanb

Obama’s Brutal Barbaric Bombings of Civilians and his Assassination Squad Sparked Yemen Revolution

4:34 am in Uncategorized by normanb

Obama’s Brutal Barbaric Bombings of Civilians and his Assassination Squad Sparked Yemen Revolution — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

Egypt is bigger and stronger. It is easy to miss what’s happening in Yemen.

President Obama sent Coward Drones into Yemen. These unmanned aircraft are operated by cowards on US bases, sometimes within the United States. They primarily murder civilians and terrorize indigenous people in what is called “collateral damage,” collateral to the stated objective of killing those opposed to the US puppet dictator of Yemen, President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and his agenda of delivering his nation’s Oil to China and the West.

In this report from January 22, 2011, Chinese President Hu thanked Saleh for his support of China’s stellar “Human Rights” record, especially concerning Tibet and Taiwan. The article cited doesn’t mention China’s genocidal repression of the Muslim Uygurs in East Turkestan (called “China’s Muslim West” by propaganda voices on US commercial networks who approve of the occupation of Turkestan).

http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnewstt_news=3952

President Obama has also sent a US intelligence assassination squad into Yemen, stressing his assertion that he is allowed to order assassinations against Muslims anywhere in the world, even if they are Americans, even if they are in Yemen. Anwar Al-Awlaki, whom President Obama’s hit men are assigned to kill, has close ties to US intelligence, and was invited to the Pentagon by Donald Rumsfeld’s Defense Department shortly after 9/11.

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/10/21/rumsfelds-defense-department-invited-anwar-al-awlaki-into-pentagon-after-911/

However US culpability in Egypt may be downplayed, President Obama’s aggression against the poor civilians of Yemen holds a large responsibility for the Yemen Revolution. How many massacres will the US puppet regimes carry out?

Yemenis in the US have been targeted for more than a decade since the DEA rescheduled the herbal drug Qat (Khat), chewed daily by most people in parts of Yemen. The drug is not harmful, and increases fertility in both men and women. As banning Marijuana in the 1930s was rationalized by saying Blacks, Mexicans, and Jazz musicians used it, so was Qat considered evil, as some Muslims show great respect for it: It sparked an artistic movement among Muslim fundamentalists who believe the Commandment prohibiting “graven images” forbids all realistic depictions of humans and animals, but takes no position on psychedelic design.

All of us Americans, and especially all Democrats, should contact President Obama and our Democratic representatives in the House and Senate to demand these simple actions on the Yemen situation:

  • Immediately end Coward Drone strikes in Yemen;
  • Immediately end US-sponsored assassinations in Yemen;
  • Turn those assassins over to the International Court of Justice in the Hague for prosecution for Crimes Against Humanity;
  • Tell the truth about US involvement in Yemen;
  • Stop corrupting the Yemeni Government.

These are Human Rights deserved by every human on the planet. Common decency requires that President Obama, the US, and the Democratic Party also afford these rights to the Yemeni people.

Meanwhile, in Egypt, US Vice Dictator Puppet Omar Suleiman told his state television audience that Western Journalists are spies causing the country’s chaos. His words incited attacks on journalists that continue. He called for Constitutional changes that nonetheless keep intact Egypt’s absolute dictatorial powers in a totalitarian President. Our President and Secretary of State seem to approve turning the reins of Government over to this man.

But the people of Egypt demand removal of the regime and nothing short. Offering the Egyptians a Suleiman Government [under absolute control of the Obama CIA's top kidnap-and-torture thug] is not honest or credible negotiating. Actual negotiating takes serious attention, not just propaganda. It takes hard work. It will be very hard to change the Egyptian Government, you see, Egypt has its own National Democratic Party to contend with.

by normanb

As Obama’s Egyptian Torture Team Shoots at Doctors, his Yemeni Programs to Assassinate Muslims and Bomb Civilians Spark Revolution

4:01 am in Uncategorized by normanb

As Obama’s Egyptian Torture Team Shoots at Doctors, his Yemeni Programs to Assassinate Muslims and Bomb Civilians Spark Revolution — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

Yesterday, Democracy Now! and Al Jazeera reported that the Obama-Suleiman-Mubarak forces attacked and shot at doctors who tried to help some of the Team’s victims in Tahrir Square. By the time I went to sleep last night, the Torture Team had murdered 15 people yesterday, by their own admission, according to Al Jazeera.

Perhaps the widespread US War Crime network is crumbling:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/03/us-yemen-protest-idUSLDE71206M20110203

by normanb

Right Now: Anderson Cooper Attacked by Obama’s Torture Regime Thugs [Suleiman's Enforcers]

6:25 am in Uncategorized by normanb

Right Now: Anderson Cooper Attacked by Obama’s Torture Regime Thugs [Suleiman's Enforcers] — by NormanB “Deviations from the Norm”

You’d better tune in right now. Echoing Al Jazeera from last night, Bloomberg reported earlier this morning that the attack mobs are drawn from the 1.7 million-member Suleiman Torture ["Security"] forces. Under Presidents Clinton, G.W. Bush, and Obama, the US has sent prisoners to be Tortured by these very forces. They just attacked CNN’s Anderson Cooper, his cameraperson, other journalists, and protesters.

President Obama has aided the Torture forces. For instance, a gang of kidnappers was convicted in Italy Nov. 4, 2009: They kidnapped a citizen and delivered him to the US Torture forces under Suleiman’s command. President Obama continues to commit Obstruction of Justice by refusing to extradite the kidnappers, because they work for the CIA.

President Obama holds some responsibility for the violent crackdown now beginning against Egyptian democracy advocates. The Suleiman/Obama/Mubarak forces have begun Torturing the protesters with whips and teargas. Egypt is in fact the primary destination of victims of American Torture. But President Obama doesn’t need to mention that. In fact, every time a reporter has raised the question of the Obama-Suleiman Torture regime relationship, the President has simply lied about the situation.

Strikingly reminiscent of Sept. 25, 2009, at the Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Pittsburgh, whereat President Obama’s motorcade fired teargas into a peaceful crowd of students, journalists, activists, and protesters.

Is this a preview of what we can expect at the upcoming “Democratic” Convention in North Carolina? (People are already calling it the “Blood and Teargas Convention.”)