\u201cThe curiosity, through much of the ordeal, was the camera,\u201d Ian Fisher wrote. \u201cIt was a detail he mentioned repeatedly as he recalled being forced against a wall and ordered by the Arabic translator to masturbate.\u201d It\u2019s odd that, according to Abd, the translator was giving the orders. <\/p>\n
\u201cAll the while, he [Abd] said, the flash of the camera kept illuminating the dim room that once held prisoners of Mr. [Saddam] Hussein, recording images that have infuriated the Arab world and badly sullied America\u2019s image.\u201d <\/p>\n
It seems unlikely that a group of U.S. Army Military Police [MP] would allow themselves to be filmed indulging in \u201csadistic, blatant, and wanton criminal abuses.\u201d The prisoners being abused in the photos were not being abused prior to interrogation, according to Abd. The mistreatment in the photos \u201cappeared to be punishment for bad behavior,\u201d the Times reported. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe truth is we were not terrorists,\u201d Abd said. \u201cWe were not insurgents. We were just ordinary people. And American intelligence knew that.\u201d <\/p>\n
Abd claims that he was never interrogated, and never charged with a crime. Most of the American soldiers had treated him well and with respect. \u201cAmericans did not mistreat me in general,\u201d he said. \u201cBut these people must be tried.\u201d <\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Major General Antonio M. Taguba, who conducted the Army\u2019s investigation into the alleged abuses at Abu Ghraib earlier this year, said Army investigators have \u201cextremely graphic photographic evidence\u201d of abuse in \u201cpictures and videos.\u201d <\/p>\n Taguba\u2019s report says \u201cegregious acts and grave breaches of international law\u201d were committed when an \u201cambiguous command relationship\u201d existed at the prison. This breakdown in the chain-of-command was due to Fragmentary Order 1108, dated 19 November 2003. <\/p>\n \u201cThis effectively made an MI [Military Intelligence] Officer, rather than an MP Officer, responsible for the MP units conducting detainee operations at that facility,\u201d Taguba wrote. <\/p>\n Fragmentary Order 1108 made Col. Thomas M. Pappas, Commander of the 205th MI Brigade, responsible for the MP units at Abu Ghraib prison. <\/p>\n Taguba\u2019s report, which was presented to his superiors in early March, recommended that an investigation be conducted \u201cto determine the extent of culpability of MI personnel.\u201d <\/p>\n Apart from the failings of the senior officers who should have done more to prevent the abuse, Taguba names four individuals as key suspects. \u201cSpecifically,\u201d Taguba wrote, \u201cI suspect that Col. Thomas M. Pappas, LTC Steve L. Jordan, Mr. Steven Stephanowicz, and Mr. John Israel were either directly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib and strongly recommend immediate disciplinary action.\u201d <\/p>\n Jordan is former director of the Joint Interrogation and Debriefing Center and Liaison Officer to the 205th MI Brigade. <\/p>\n Stephanowicz is a \u201ccivilian interrogator\u201d employed by CACI International of Chantilly, Va., and \u201cJohn Israel\u201d is said to be a \u201ccivilian interpreter.\u201d Both were working with the 205th MI Brigade at the time of the abuse. According to the report these private contractors were at times supervising the interrogations. <\/p>\n \u201cIn general,\u201d Taguba wrote, \u201cU.S. civilian contract personnel (Titan Corp., CACI, etc.) third country nationals, and local contractors do not appear to be properly supervised within the detention facility at Abu Ghraib.\u201d The third country nationals are not identified in the report. <\/p>\n Although Stephanowicz and Israel are both named as being \u201cdirectly or indirectly responsible for the abuses at Abu Ghraib,\u201d very little has been said about either of them in the mainstream media. Why are they being overlooked? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Taguba report isn\u2019t clear about John Israel. In the body of the report he is mistakenly identified as a CACI employee. Only in the annex on the last page is he noted as being with Titan Corp., a high tech military company based in San Diego. <\/p>\n Questions abound about \u201cJohn Israel.\u201d Ralph Williams, spokesman for Titan Corp., told the Times that Israel \u201cworked for a Titan subcontractor that he would not name.\u201d <\/p>\n \u201cJohn Israel\u201d is most likely the nom de guerre of an Arabic-speaking intelligence agent who was placed in Iraq through Titan. Both Titan and CACI have directors with strong ties to the Israeli military establishment. <\/p>\n The director of Titan with the largest stake in the company is Edward H. Bersoff, who received the Distinguished Leadership Award by the Washington Chapter of the American Jewish Committee in 1999. Bersoff has been an honored speaker at the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington, along with the likes of Sharon\u2019s right-wing ally Binjamin Netanyahu. <\/p>\n On January 14, Dr. J.P. (Jack) London, chairman, president, and CEO of CACI International, flew to Israel to receive the Albert Einstein Technology Award from the Jerusalem Fund. The award was presented by Israeli Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Uri Lupolianski, Jerusalem\u2019s ultra-Orthodox Jewish Mayor at a ceremony in the occupied city on January 14, 2004. <\/p>\n CACI was awarded a $10,118,040 firm-fixed-price contract from the U.S. Army on Feb. 26, 2004 for 24 contract specialists, like Stephanowicz, to work in Iraq. Each CACI specialist is costing the U.S. taxpayer $421,585 per year. <\/p>\n On May 3, Titan reported a 21 percent growth in its first quarter revenues of $459 million. \u201cTitan’s linguist contract with the U.S. Army\u201d was noted as a \u201cprimary driver\u201d behind the companies increased revenues. The only language tool Titan offers on its website is for \u201cLevantine Arabic,\u201d i.e. the Arabic spoken in Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. <\/p>\n Last July, however, Titan Systems Corporation of Fairfax, Va., placed an ad for \u201cnative Arabic, Aramaic, Kurdish, Persian, Pashto, Turkish and Dari speakers.\u201d Titan\u2019s ad for interpreters required the native speakers be U.S. citizens and fluent in English. It is extremely unlikely that any native speaker of Arabic would be named \u201cJohn Israel.\u201d <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Taguba\u2019s report called for Stephanowicz to be terminated and reprimanded, but on April 25 he was still on the job at Abu Ghraib hitting golfballs from the roof onto the highway in his free time, according to the \u201cIraq Diary\u201d of one of his co-workers. Until recently, Joe Ryan, one of the interrogators, had his revealing journal about his work at Abu Ghraib posted on the website of KSTP, a St. Paul, Minnesota radio station. According to KSTP\u2019s Ron Rosenbaum, the journal was removed at Ryan\u2019s request when the photos of abuse surfaced. <\/p>\n As of May 5, however, two months after Taguba had called for Stephanowicz to be fired, CACI, Stephanowicz\u2019s employer, said they had \u201creceived no information from the Dept. of Defense\u201d on the matter. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Everybody understands the phenomenal damage this accusation has caused in that part of the world,” Sen. Joseph Biden of Delaware, the senior Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, said. “This is the single most significant undermining act that’s occurred in a decade in that region of the world, in terms of our standing.” <\/p>\n The abuse at Abu Ghraib resembles Israeli methods applied in the occupied territories. \u201cIsrael is the only country in which the kind of abuse documented at Abu Ghraib occurs as a matter of policy,\u201d Hussein Ibish, spokesman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), the largest Arab-American organization, told American Free Press. <\/p>\n Palestinian news sources are replete with similar accounts of Israeli soldiers forcing Palestinians to strip and perform degrading sexual acts. Reports of Palestinian prisoners having been sodomized during torture sessions with Israeli military interrogators are common. <\/p>\n Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has articles on such abuse going back to 1996. Israeli soldiers paraded naked Palestinians through the streets of Jerusalem after the massacre of Deir Yassin in April 1948. Dr. Hazem Nusseibeh of Palestine Broadcasting witnessed the massacre and its aftermath. Nusseibeh said women were bayoneted and about 11 children were made to parade naked through the streets of Jerusalem. <\/p>\n Palestine Chronicle, an online news source, carried an article in November 2002 titled \u201cStripping Palestinians has Become Common Practice.\u201d <\/p>\n The article described an incident in which Israeli soldiers ordered a young resident of the town of Nablus to strip completely naked in the street and act like a dog. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cIt was a deliberate intelligence tactic,\u201d Ibish said when asked if he thought the photos could be part of an Israeli intelligence plot to damage U.S. relations in the Arab world. \u201c[Ariel] Sharon plays a zero-sum game,\u201d he said. \u201cHe thinks the worst possible relations between United States and the people of the Arab and Muslim world is good for Israel.\u201d <\/p>\n American Free Press asked the coalition press desk in Baghdad if Israeli advisors worked with the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq or at the Abu Ghraib prison. \u201cNo to both,\u201d was the response from Major Carolyn Dysart. <\/p>\n Rafael Barak, spokesman at the Israeli embassy in Washington, said he was \u201cnot aware\u201d of any Israeli presence in Iraq. <\/p>\n The accused military personnel may face courts martial, but the civilian contractors can be charged with war crimes through the War Crimes Act of 1996 and the Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act of 2000, according to Francis A. Boyle, author and professor of international law at the University of Illinois. <\/p>\n War crimes cases against U.S. civilians working with the military in Iraq would be prosecuted by the Dept. of Justice, Boyle said. <\/p>\n \u201cThe question is how high this goes,\u201d he added. \u201c[Lieut. General Ricardo S.] Sanchez is letting the superiors off the hook.\u201d Boyle\u2019s latest book on Iraq is entitled Destroying World Order: U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East Before and After September 11th. <\/p>\n “Tell him to walk and bark like a dog.” That’s right, good. O.K., I’ve got the picture.” <\/p>\n Question: Where have we seen this before? Also see: Despite renewed revelations of torture and humilation, the mainstream media has yet to ask the key question: who was really behind the obscenities at Abu Ghraib and why were they committed? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Iraq"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAnswer: ISRAELI OCCUPIED PALESTINE
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\nWho is John Israel? Why was he Running the Show?
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