Yankees, go home (Quran burning in Afghanistan)

In the last few days, we have seen the MSM reporting about the protests against a Quran burning incident in Afghanistan. Obama was quick to condemn the incident. So was the Commander of the NATO forces. But that didn’t calm down the situation.

Quran Burning Sparks Angry Afghan Protest

0:49 min – Commander of NATO Forces apologises profusely.

The issue isn’t just about Quran burning. It is a whole host of issues which includes:

1. Hypocrisy of US and its allies, using “war on terror” as an excuse when the intention is to control Afghanistan so that an 800 km oil/gas pipeline could be built from the Caspian to India/Pakistan through Afghanistan. That was discussed here. 911 10th Annivesary: Remembering the Lies (Part 1). Scroll down to the sub-header “Invasion of Afghanistan was planned long before 11 Sep 2001″.

2. In the process of occupying Afghanistan, which is now more than ten years, US and its allies have indiscriminately bombed civilian targets like hospitals, schools, govt offices. They also bomb funeral gatherings, wedding functions and children’s parties. That’s on top of using munitions that contain Depleted Uranium which affects the population and future generations. Depleted Uranium: Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke

3. US and its allies also round up young men and torture them without trial. They are detained indefinitely, never to see their families again. Guantanamo Bay detention camp

4. In the process, the Bush Admin followed by Obama’s Admin, keeps targetting Islam and Muslims (its own Muslim citizens included) as a terror source. This shows that the govt of US is suspicious of Muslims in general (just like in S’pore). So for all the talk that the ‘war on terror’ is not about against Muslims, it actually is. NYPD says it is legal to conduct surveillance on Muslims in city and in Newark

Needless to say, the Quran burning is just “the last straw” for the Muslims in Afghanistan. While the US and its allies portray themselves as liberators, the true picture in the minds of these Afghans is that they are nothing more than oppressors and usurpers. Ask the Afghans what they want from these soldiers and they will tell you that they want those troops to go home.

“War on terror” just an excuse to invade lands of Muslims because of their oil and other resource -

Afghanistan -

Afghanistan was invaded because the Taliban halted the construction the 800 km oil pipeline during Clinton’s presidency. The purpose of the invasion was to replace the Taliban with a more US friendly govt so that the construction of pipeline could be resumed. Unfortunately, US isn’t winning the war, and that pipeline still isn’t completed either.

It must be remembered that prior to this Afghan War, the Afghans were fighting against the Soviets in the last century. And who trained Osama bin Laden and his forces (now called Al Qaida by US) to fend off the Soviets? Yep, the United States of America.

After the Soviets were booted out of Afghanistan, America uses Osama as a tool and excuse to invade Afghanistan.

Iraq -

Likewise for Iraq, US supplied Saddam Hussein with Chemical Weapons in the 1980s during the Iran-Iraq War. The war ended when both sides decided to a ceasefire.

Iraq was the second largest oil producer during Saddam’s reign. Since Saddam’s use to the US was no longer valid, it was decided that he was to be disposed of. And what better way than to accuse Saddam of stockpiling WMDs (never mind that it was the US that supplied him that!) as an excuse to invade.

Prior to the invasion of Iraq, Hans Blix, then Head of IAEA made it clear to Bush that Saddam had no more stockpile of WMDs. Bush decided to invade anyway.

Unfortunately and embarrassingly for the US, Saddam got rid of whatever WMDs he had after the Iran-Iraq War. That turned out to be a big PR disaster for the Bush Admin because after US invaded Iraq, they found no WMDs.

Bush sheepishly said that US troops couldn’t find those WMDs because Saddam had destroyed it. But that’s what Blix said earlier, didn’t he, dumbo? =.=

Iran, next possible target -

Of all the Muslim nations in the Mid East and North Africa, Iran is the most challenging for the US. Many of the young population don’t know that Iran was once America’s strongest ally.

This short video gives a quick explanation of the recent history of Iran’s relationship with the US.
History of Iran & USA in 10 min, Every American must watch this!!

Iran is the third largest oil producing country. That makes it too tempting for greedy US and its allies not to invade. But invading Iran is not like invading Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya or any other Muslim state in the region. Iran is battle hardened and has the backing of Russia and China. Here are four posts I published about the challenges facing Iran’s would be invaders.

Bomb Iran? Let’s lay out the cards (Part 1 – Military Perspective)

Bomb Iran? Let’s lay out the cards (Part 2 – Geopolitical Perspective)

Bomb Iran? Let’s lay out the cards (Part 3 – Economic Perspective)

Bomb Iran? Let’s lay out the cards (Part 4 – Israeli Involvement)

Quran burning protest must be seen in context -

So let’s get back to the issue of the protests against the Quran burning in Afghanistan. The MSM would like to portray this issue as a hyped up, over reaction from some Afghans. However, the issue is much deeper.

The issue is about the anger, the frustration and the deep resentment these Afghan Muslims have towards the invading oppressive troops of the US and its allies.

Afghans are not stupid. Like the Iraqis, Libyans, Syrians, Iranians and many other citizens of nations who have been America’s targets, the true message of the protests against the Quran burning is loud and clear.

The message is, “Yankees, go home!”

Demonizing Iran

The warmongers have been trying to bomb Iran for the last few years. As far back as during GW Bush’s term. With all the unsubstantiated allegations against Iran flying around and perpetuated by MSM, it is no wonder we have people believing in distorted lies about Iran.

From ST Forum dated 23 Feb 2012
Threat of a nuclear Iran

TWO months into the new year, Iran has halted its oil exports to Britain and France. The prospect of a military conflict with Iran looms on the horizon (‘How dangerous is the Iranian threat?’; Monday).

To understand the extent of the danger a nuclear Iran poses to the world, one has only to look at the pro-regime rallies in Iran calling for the destruction of Israel, as well as naming the United States as ‘the Great Satan’.

Those who claim the Iranian regime will be deterred from using its nuclear power as a military option, due to the fear of mutually assured destruction, must first understand that Iran itself has not engaged in a conventional war since the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988).

Instead, the Iranian regime fights using its proxies, having been a long-time sponsor of militant groups such as Hamas of the Gaza Strip and Hizbollah of Lebanon.

Plausible deniability is what the Iranian regime seeks and should Iran arm itself with nuclear weapons, one cannot help but wonder if such devices might fall into the hands of the numerous terror groups that the regime funds. Chances of that happening are arguably greater than Iran directly launching a nuclear warhead at the states it detests.

The untold horror that may unfold should a nuclear weapon fall into the hands of such terrorist groups is inconceivable.

The world should always be watchful of nuclear weapons, even more so when a terror-sponsoring regime like Iran’s has desires for them.

Diplomatic sanctions, however biting, seem to have merely delayed the Iranian regime’s quest for nuclear weapons rather than stopping it entirely.

The threat Iran poses to the world has never been greater, especially so when it is a nuclear Iran.

Kenddrick Chan

Iran has not attacked or invaded another country the last 200 years. On the other hand, the US and Israel, two nations that have been beating the wardrums to invade Iran, have invaded and pillaged other nations since last century.

Together with other war mongering nations in Europe, which are complicit in the war crimes committed in Afghanistan and Iraq the last ten years, US and Israel are now trying to demonize Iran, a country that has not invaded any other nation.

Here are some facts.

1. Iran is a member of the IAEA, which allows them to build nuclear power plants. US and other European states are also members. This means that US and Europe recognise Iran has a right to build that nuclear plant. Israel on the other hand is a non-member, has 200 over nuclear warheads and no one seems to notice that big, fat elephant in the room. Isn’t the assumption that Iran’s nuclear site is for building nukes a lie?

I posted a more detailed discussion on the IAEA in this post – Beating the War Drums on Iran

2. During the Iran-Iraq War from 1980 to 1988, it was US who armed Saddam with chemical weapons to be used against Iran. US hypocritically then invaded Iraq in 2003 for that very WMDs they supplied! Unfortunately for US, Saddam disposed those chems long before 2003. So now it makes US look stupid, invading Iraq for some non-existent WMDs, which US supplied in the first place.

3. If Iran supports Hamas and Hezbollah and that makes them terror supporters, what makes US who supports Israel? Super terrorist?

Finally, what’s this talk about Iran wants to wipe Israel off the map stuff? Iran has the third largest Jewish population in the world, after US and Israel itself.

Israel has an immigration policy that gives any Jew around world Israeli citizenship. If living in Iran is hell for Jews, why are these Iranian Jews not migrating to Israel?

Stop the lies. Stop the madness. Stop the wars.

Supporting war crimes and proud of it

The “war on terror” started by GW Bush is nothing but war crimes against humanity. The Afghan war is illegal. So is the Iraq War. War crimes have been committed by US and its allies. Hospitals bombed. Schools bombed. Wedding parties and funeral gatherings bombed. Tortures meted, prisoners kept in long captivity without trial. This is human rights violation.

The SAF supports the above – and is proud of it.

Interview: Ng Eng Hen, Singaporean Minister of Defence

The security challenges facing Singapore encompass both traditional and non-traditional threats, according to Singapore’s Minister of Defence, Dr Ng Eng Hen. “In terms of traditional threats,” he said, “the world is increasingly interconnected and even events that take place far away affect Singapore.

“If someone suggested 10 to 15 years ago that Singapore would send assets and troops to Afghanistan it would have been dubbed a fantasy, but here we are with a number of rotations to Afghanistan [and the] Gulf of Aden, as many other countries are.”

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) have been deploying various specialist detachments to Afghanistan since 2007, including weapon-locating radar teams and medical teams to Uruzgan in southern Afghanistan and a 52-strong unmanned aerial vehicle task group to Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province.

Currently, a six-strong imagery analysis team is also stationed at Tarin Kowt, while a team of military institutional trainers (MITs) are deployed at an artillery school at the Kabul Military Training Center until December 2012. The SAF will also deploy a five-strong MIT team to Uruzgan between February and November 2012 to partner the Australian Defence Force in training Afghan National Army commanders to detect and identify improvised explosive devices.

If you gave aid to Hitler’s forces to help him kill innocent civilians without repercussion, are you not complicit in war crimes?

“Singapore wants to do its part in this global effort against extremism as we recognise that it can affect all of us,” said Ng. “We have contributed in ways that we think are meaningful and aid the stability of Afghanistan so that extremism is not exported.

Ah, extremism. The all purpose war card excuse to invade and pillage the lands of others. In the 1960s to 1970s, it was Communism. That gave the United States of Terrormerica the licence to kill innocent North Vietnamese. The innocent villages were Napalmed, Orange Agented and blown to bits. Today it is (Islamic) “extremism” in Afghanistan and Iraq.

“I won’t overstate our contributions, but neither has it been a token force,” Ng said.

Dr Ng, there is nothing to be proud of that should be overstated, or even stated. Why are you so proud that our boys are complicit in the war crimes?

“We have sent what we can, we played our role and our philosophy has been [making a] meaningful contribution, which we will continue to do.”

Singapore has also provided a landing ship tank and maritime patrol aircraft to Combined Task Force 151: the international anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. Aside from that and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) contribution in relation to the threat of extremism, Ng added that Singapore was also in an area that contained key sealines of communication, including the Strait of Malacca and South China Sea.

Furthermore, the rise of China and India and evolution of countries belonging to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in terms of population, expertise, production and consumption – factors that shift security circumstances – demand a new security architecture, said Ng. In Singapore’s view this architecture will preferably be built around ASEAN, given the organisation’s centrality to the region. “The other stakeholders, whether it is the US, China, India, Australia or Europe, can understand that if ASEAN is in the driver’s seat there is a good reason to find common ground for security and stability in the region,” Ng said.

Why are we bootlicking the US, portraying that China and India are a force that is hostile, such that we need a “balance of power” and suck up to the US, to have their big ships and big guns here?

Isn’t the presence of US attracting the very “extremists” we are supposedly to be terrified of, just like flies are attracted to rubbish?

Significant security achievements have already been made with the ASEAN Defence Ministers’ Meeting (ADMM) forum encouraging dialogue and co-operation between member states. To this end a common statement was issued in May 2011 laying down its aims towards building a stable and secure region. The establishment of the ADMM+8 in 2010 has also enabled ASEAN to have a security dialogue mechanism with eight Asia-Pacific nations: Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia and the US.

Ng said one of the key achievements of the ADMM and ADMM+8 had been establishing five expert working groups dealing with maritime security; humanitarian assistance and disaster relief; counter-terrorism; military medicine; and peacekeeping operations. “These are not news grabbing, but on a day-to-day basis they add much to maintaining stability,” he said, “because if you exercise regularly and know your counterparts, it reduces the risk of miscalculation and misunderstanding.”

Singapore’s close and long-standing relationship with the US means that it views President Barack Obama’s much-vaunted ‘shift to Asia Pacific’ in less dramatic terms. “I’m not sure that the US ever went away; if you look at the record, they’ve been very much around,” Ng said, adding that the city state strongly believes “that the US presence in this part of the world has enhanced regional peace and stability”. On China’s rise, Ng said that it was in “everyone’s interest – including China’s – for it to play a constructive role and to support the global system that at the end of the day it will have to rely on to prosper and thrive”.

With regard to non-traditional operations, Ng highlighted a global trend for militaries – and their large reserve capacities – to take the lead in humanitarian and disaster relief operations: a trend in part due to the privatisation of other public bodies. Meanwhile, he added that the threats of terrorism and weapon proliferation have not gone away. “The scope of operations for the military, not only for Singapore but also other countries, has expanded,” he noted. “It has become a much more challenging and complex landscape and we will have to chart a path … that finds consensus if we are to evolve a stable and robust security architecture.”

It is OK if we deploy our troops to help in disaster relief. It is also OK if we deploy them to help fight piracy in the high seas. But to support war criminals in their war efforts?

Forget about the excuse that we help set up schools and hospitals. That is saying that it is OK to invade, pillage, kill their innocent women and children, because help we set schools and hospitals in their lands. That is also akin to a robber saying that he is an angel because he administered first aid to his victim, after shooting him.

Stop being proud being complicit in war crimes. Stop the madness. Stop the wars.

American atrocieties – Fallujah under siege

The Lying Machine of the Mainstream Media, in collusion with the United States of Terrormerica, portrays Fallujuah which is a city in Iraq as a hotbed for breeding terrorists. Nothing is further than the truth.

In 2004, residents of Fallujah had one of their schools under siege by the American Terror Force. That’s when the civilian residents tried to claim their rightful school back. Then when some American vehicles were hit by IED, four Blackwater mercenaries who were killed had their bodies butchered and hung up in public by some angry residents.

The American media played up the horror scene and that agitated the American troops to kill more Iraqi civilians. The media told only half the story. The other half which is all about American crimes have been hidden.

But this video below is about to change that. Here’s the testimony from a first hand witness to the crimes the mainstream mass media hides. The video is uploaded by a blogger who makes numerous posts about war in Iraq. This video is about the incident in Fallujah, and the consequences that followed the school under siege. The poster of the video (the man at the bottom left of the screen) interviews a first hand witness to the war crimes that America tries to hide from the world. The war crimes committed in Fallujah in 2004.

Syrian Girl – Fallujah War Crimes

0:30 min – At the very beginning, the Fallujah Resistance didn’t start until American Forces took over a school. Residents protested and as result, 14 civilians died, including children and one US soldier. This was the first siege. (Violence started to spread from this incident and a total of about 800 civilians were killed eventually.)

6:05 min – Second Siege. There were more civilians killed, including babies. Sustained bombing. Hospitals, power stations hit.

7:00 – Males between 15 and 55 were not allowed to leave Fallujah when the others were evacuated.

7:45 – US Forces obliterated Fallujah. White Phosphorous used. (Warning – Video images are graphic @ 8:00)

8:35 – Even Enriched Uranium used.

9:30 – Neutron Bomb used on Baghdad Airport.

12:00 – Ambulances shot at.

13:10 – Second siege included bombing and raiding a hospital.

13:45 – American Forces handcuffed doctors and even pulled wounded patients from the operating tables. Destroyed medicine.

Heavy Civilian Casualties -

It has been reported that about 800 civilians were killed in each of the two sieges. The first siege was in Apr 2004 and the second in Nov 2004.

Remember Fallujah

War crimes in Fallujah

April 2004
According to a detailed analysis of 300 contemporary news reports by Iraq Body Count (www.iraqbodycount.org) at least 572 of the roughly 800 reported deaths during the first US siege of Fallujah in April 2004 were civilians, with over 300 of these being women and children.

…[snip]…

November 2004
A high-ranking Red Cross official estimated that “at least 800 civilians” were killed in the first 9 days of the November 2004 assault on Fallujah (Inter Press Service, 16 November 2004) – an operation originally codenamed “Thanksgiving massacre” (Telegraph, 24 December 2004).

America uses WMDs and has committed war crimes -

In the Siege of Fallujah, WMDs were used. That includes Enriched Uranium, White Phosphorous and perhaps the Neutron Bomb.

Some warmongers may argue that White Phosphorous is not classified as WMD, unlike Napalm or Agent Orange. My reply is – Really? Wanna try to have some White Phosphorous on your skin?

As if that is not enough, they bombed schools, hospitals, power stations and other civilian infrastructure. Not to mention they torture civilians, as well as kill women, children, the sick, invalid and the elderly.

Conclusion -

The wars must stop. These wars, be it is Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, the impending wars in Syria and Iran, are all for the purpose of usurping Muslim lands for their oil and rich mineral resource.

It isn’t about war against terror. It isn’t about democracy. It is about greed for other people’s lands and resource.

Stop the wars. Stop the madness. Stop the crimes.

American war crimes and SAF is complicit

The Mainstream Media glorifies wars. American veterans, who are actually terrorists who kill and maim innocents (women and children included), are honoured with medals. And of course, our SAF troops who have given them support are complicit. For those who think that SAF is giving humanitarian support, imagine giving such support to the Nazis.

Here are some of the results of the crimes committed by the Terrormericans.

Fallujah babies: Under a new kind of siege

Congenital abnormalities have mushroomed in the wake of devastating US sieges in Fallujah in 2004

The above defect is suspected to be caused by Enriched Uraniuam used by the Terrormerican Forces. Say… wasn’t Iraq invaded for the use of WMDs in the first place?

Enriched Uraniuam is not to be mistaken for Depleted Uranium (DU). The latter is found in the munitions of American equipment. DU is not used as a “weapon” but is used in the design of the equipment itself. However, DU does give off radiation that affects the population too, after the munitions have been expended.

Enriched Uranium on the other hand is used as part of WMD! So howabout invading The United States of Terrormerica?

US invasion leaves lasting Iraq scars

Excerpts from first link above:

Fallujah, Iraq – While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities.

Dr Samira Alani, a paediatric specialist at Fallujah General Hospital, has taken a personal interest in investigating an explosion of congenital abnormalities that have mushroomed in the wake of the US sieges since 2005.

“We have all kinds of defects now, ranging from congenital heart disease to severe physical abnormalities, both in numbers you cannot imagine,” Alani told Al Jazeera at her office in the hospital, while showing countless photos of shocking birth defects.

As of December 21, Alani, who has worked at the hospital since 1997, told Al Jazeera she had personally logged 677 cases of birth defects since October 2009. Just eight days later when Al Jazeera visited the city on December 29, that number had already risen to 699.

“There are not even medical terms to describe some of these conditions because we’ve never seen them until now,” she said. “So when I describe it all I can do is describe the physical defects, but I’m unable to provide a medical term.”

‘Incompatible with life’

Most of these babies in Fallujah die within 20 to 30 minutes after being born, but not all.

Four-year-old Abdul Jaleel Mohammed was born in October 2007. His clinical diagnosis includes dilation of two heart ventricles, and a growth on his lower back that doctors have not been able to remove.

…[snip]…

In April 2011, Iraqi lawmakers debated whether the US attacks on the city constituted genocide. Resolutions that called for international prosecution, however, went nowhere.

Scientific proof

Alani, along with Dr Christopher Busby, a British scientist and activist who has carried out research into the risks of radioactive pollution, collected hair samples from 25 parents of families with children who have birth defects and sent them to a laboratory in Germany for analysis.

Alani and Busby, along with other doctors and researchers, published a study in September 2011 from data obtained by analysing the hair samples, as well as soil and water samples from the city.

Mercury, Uranium, Bizmuth and other trace elements were found.

The report’s conclusion states:

“Whilst caution must be exercised about ruling out other possibilities, because none of the elements found in excess are reported to cause congenital diseases and cancer except Uranium, these findings suggest the enriched Uranium exposure is either a primary cause or related to the cause of the congenital anomaly and cancer increases. Questions are thus raised about the characteristics and composition of weapons now being deployed in modern battlefields.”

“As doctors, we know Mercury, Uranium and Bismuth can contribute to the development of congenital abnormalities, and we think it could be related to the use of prohibited weapons by the Americans during these battles,” Alani said.

These are the war crimes made in America. And our SAF is complicit. Stop the wars. Stop the madness. Stop the crimes.

American soldiers rape about anyone

When the Yankees stole lands from the Native Americans, it wasn’t enough to satisfy them. So they raped women and children.

More than 200 years later, whenever they steal lands (like in Afghanistan and Iraq), they continue their rapes and torture.

But that ain’t enough too. So they rape their own womenfolk serving the military.

Rape in the ranks: Female US soldiers raped by comrades fight war on two fronts

Some American female troops deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan have had to fight another, more private battle. Besides the physical and psychological hardships of war, they’ve also had to face the trauma of sexual abuse from male comrades. And very few victims report the crime, as RTs Marina Portnaya reveals.

O:40 min – One in three women in the military gets raped!

Ironic that one of the arguments pro-war mongers give is that America invades Afghanistan and Iraq to remove despotic regimes which abuse women. So where are these hypocrites now when it is the American soldiers who rape their own women?

So who’s the Terrorist?

Short 2 minute video. Concise, to the point.

The Bitter Truth

SAF complicit in these war crimes

Our SAF has been deploying troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. US and NATO have been committing war crimes with impunity. Our troops who have been giving them tech, medical and other support are hence complicit in the war crimes.

These are the crimes committed against humanity. Straight from the horse’s mouth, a veteran from Iraq.

U.S. Marine Jon Turner tosses his medals

1:30 min – Jon Michael Turner, veteran formerly from 8th Marines, addresses audience.

1:48 min – Jon throws his medals to the applause of the audience.

2:10 min – Jon tells of his first confirmed kill. He was an innocent man. Jon shot him in front of the man’s friend and father.

Jon’s first kill. An innocent civilian man.

3:00 min – “We (the marines) all were congratulated when we had our first kills” – Jon Turner.

3:05 min – Jon’s Company Commander personally congratulated him for his first kill. This was the same commander who said anyone whoever got his first kill “by stabbing them to death” will get a 4-day off when he returned from Iraq.

3:30 min – Jon cites an incident where the troops were fired at but didn’t know where the fire came from. So they took out a civilian house with an 84mm rocket. Jon states they didn’t know if anyone was in it or if that’s where the fire was coming from.

4:10 min – Jon’s third confirm kill was a man riding a bicycle. Another innocent man. Jon confesses that he and his colleagues “took out some individuals” because there were no reporters or cameramen with them. He also states that the marines will act differently, ie “on key” and no illegal war crimes committed, if they had embedded reporters with them.

Jon’s third kill. Another innocent civilian man.

5:18 min – House raids. Done at early hours in the morning. Marines would just “kick down doors and terrorise families” (in Jon’s own words).

5:50 min – “If the men of the household were giving us problems, we’d have them taken out any way we felt necessary. Whether it would be choking them, slamming their heads against the walls…”

6:28 min – Marines fire at a minaret of a mosque just to vent off frustration. (This btw, is a war crime. Hospitals, schools, places of worship and other civvy installations are not to be attacked if there’s no enemy fire from those installations.) Jon states that there were no enemies nor fire coming from the mosque.

Civilian installations targetted. A mosque being fired upon for no apparent reason, other than troops venting anger.

These are the crimes SAF is complicit in. Other war crimes include repeated bombings by US and NATO troops on civilian targets killing many innocents, women and children included. These include wedding celebrations, birthday gatherings and even funerals. Not forgetting the use of torture on captives too.

There’s nothing to be proud of, when our govt gives out medals to our troops who have been giving support to world terrorists.

Replacing ISA with something worse – "war on terror"

I have always been against all kinds of detention without trial. Be it ISA or “war on terror”. Somehow, some anti-ISA lobbyists don’t seem to know that they are stupidly asking for the removal of the ISA to be replaced with an even worse and draconian act – ie “war on terror”.

At the moment, four Singaporeans are on trial in Singapore and are expected to be extradited to the US under America’s “war on terror” campaign. These four claim innocence. Note that the trial is NOT about whether they have committed or aided in terror activities, but whether they have acted in a way that contravened America’s business ethics and deserve to be extradited.

Singaporeans in Iran deal: ‘It was just business’

Three men and a woman, accused by the American government of conspiring to evade a US trade embargo against Iran, denied any wrongdoing in a Singapore district court on Monday.

The Singaporeans are accused of shipping – from Singapore to Iran – 6,000 radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.

In statements read by their lawyers, they said they had believed that it was an ordinary business transaction.

The four, held under the Extradition Act, are Lim Yong Nam, 37, Lim Kow Seng, 42, Benson Hia Soo Gan, 44, and Wong Yuh Lan, 39. They are believed to have tricked Digi into selling them the modules through a network of companies.

BACKGROUND STORY

The Singaporeans are accused of shipping – from Singapore to Iran – 6,000 radio frequency modules they had bought from an American company, Digi International.

In all probability, these four would be extradited and would then be put on trial in the US on terror charges. While technically they will appear to be given a fair trial in the US, we should take note that US has a history of torture in order to extract “confessions” from the accused.

Here is one very common torture method used on terror suspects. Water boarding.

Red Cross secret report accuses the CIA of torture

The testimonies collected by the inspectors of the Red Cross uniformly agree on the use of coercive tactics such as multiple beatings, sleep and food deprivation, extreme temperatures, and in some cases, a simulated drowning technique known as waterboarding.

Image taken from above link.

Of course, the CIA, master of torture techniques, has a thousand other ways to get you to do what they want. All in the name of “war on terror”.

So those anti-lobbyists who have been calling for removing the ISA and it to be replaced by “war on terror”, are you not asking for something worse?

We should just campaign for the removal of the ISA and all detention without trial. Period. No replacing of a torture practice with another torture practice.

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Update – Wait a minute, with the new bill passed in the US, maybe those four Singaporeans who would soon be extradited may not even have a fair trial in America!

US lawmakers target Pakistan aid, Iran central bank

With the White House’s blessing, the US House passed legislation Wednesday to freeze some Pakistan aid, slap harsh new sanctions on Iran, and endorse indefinite imprisonment of suspected terrorists.

Paranoid SAF spends $30b to fight phantoms while our poor starve

$29.6 billion. That’s with a “b”. That’s also how much paranoid SAF is gonna spend on their terror toys to ward off phantom enemies we never had while our poor and elderly have to collect empty drink cans to earn a living.

Mindef to spend $29.6 billion on equipment: IHS Jane’s

Singapore’s Ministry of Defence is likely to spend US$23 billion (S$29.6 billion) on purchases of patrol aircraft, helicopters and other military equipment by 2015, according to a new report by IHS Jane’s.

Mr Nicholas de Larrinaga, emerging markets analyst at IHS Jane’s, said that Singapore’s defence budget was seen rising by more than 50 per cent between 2010 and 2015 to more than US$14 billion.

Singapore allocated US$9.39 billion for defence in its budget for the fiscal year beginning April 2011, a rise of 5.4 per cent from 2010/11.

IHS Jane’s said Singapore was an attractive choice for Western defence firms because of its relative transparency and its commitment to open-market acquisitions.

If the PAP or SAF tries to fib you that they are after terrorists, this does not make sense. Terrorists work with cells and not with armies. All the sophisticated equipment is not designed to pick up terror cells walking in the crowds. Those equipment are designed to kill people in large numbers, which is an act of terror in itself. The proper way to fight terrorism is to up security rather than defence.

So why is SAF wasting so much resource, when the amount could have been used for other areas like education, health, tech research and development or even social help? That’s because of two very insane reasons.

1. Paranoid SAF believes that the more than 200 million Muslims surrounding tiny Red Dot are going to usurp Singapore.

2. Sinkiepore, a Lackey of the United States of Terrormerica, is expected to be more involved in the terror wars of the US in the near future. As more countries bail out from the Coalition of the (un)Willing (to engage in terror acts with the US), the US expects more troops and commitment from our own terror forces to make up for the shortfall.

A Critical Look at our Defence Spending -

SAF has been paranoid from Day One. For many decades, it is all about our neighbours attacking us. What SAF fails to explain is why would they want to attack us. Attack us for what? We have no land, no sea, no resources. All the things we have, they have. In fact, they have more. So the argument that our neighbours want to attack us is just an excuse for them to deprive you of the finance resource, while they keep buying their terror toys.

Of late, the need to spend so much is due to our “commitment” to the US. The US is a warmongering machine. It has invaded far more countries than any other nation in the world the last 100 years. It is the only nation that has used Nuclear Bombs on civilians. It has used chemical weapons on civilians more than anyone else in the world too. Only Israel is second to the US, save for the fact it did not use the nuclear bomb.

Wasteful and unnecessary spending -

Firstly, no country has intention to invade tiny Singapore. The idea that we would be attacked by forces from the North and South is a figment of imagination, seated in the minds of top ranking officers (and some ministers) in our military.

Secondly, why the heck should we assist US in their terror wars? Like I mentioned, we should fight terror at home by increasing security. Helping US to invade in fact makes more enemies!

As can be seen, the billions spent is not being put to good use. They do not achieve the purpose of what is is supposed to do – ie enhance our security.

Implications of being complicit in war crimes -

The US has been known to have used chemicals in their wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Yes, note their hypocrisy. Isn’t chemicals the reason why US invaded Iraq in the first place?

The US and their allies have been bombing indiscriminately. They bomb civilian targets. Hospitals, schools, markets, wedding parties, birthday parties, funerals etc. Aren’t these war crimes?

Wait a minute… SAF has helped too. We gave medical and tech support. Are we not complicit in these war crimes?

Imagine our children and grandchildren, having to learn the fact that SAF, our pride, is complicit in war crimes. Imagine our top officers, who would then be old men, be put on trial for the world to see. Imagine the humiliation and shame our children and grandchildren have to face that we had been involved in war crimes killing innocents.

Imagine the Nazis, which the Germans till today have to live with. Don’t we have our own set of war criminals in our military?

Concluding Words and Summary -

I note that many Singaporeans are taught to be proud of the SAF. They are told that we are the best in SE Asia. Yep, our tech is superior.

But what good is that if it is used to help terror nations blast innocent women, children, elderly, sick and invalids to pieces?

If it is about fighting against terrorists, what good are those fighter jets etc? Terror cells walk among innocents. You wanna blast those innocents together with that one terror cell? The way to fight terrorism is to enhance security, not with fighter jets and other terror toys.

At the same time this wasteful spending could have been used for other more productive areas. Pity our SAF and PAP are too paranoid to see reality.