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HUGO CHAVEZ INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR PEACE, FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY
HCI-FPFS
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Press Statement 21 August, 2008.
“If someone brings you the truth and he is not from your tribe, not of your religion, not of your class, not of your race, not of your political party; will you reject the truth because it did not come from where you expected it to come from”?
- Anonymous
‘There is no such thing as a free press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who would dare to write his honest opinion. The business of the journalist is to destroy truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell himself, his country, and his race, for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping jacks; they pull the strings, we dance; our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of these men. We are intellectual prostitutes’
– John Swinton, ex-editor, New York Times at his retirement party
Subject:” STOP US FOREIGN MILITARY REINFORCEMENT IN COLOMBIA”.
The Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) is deeply worried about the round-the-clock increase deployment of US military presence on the soil, in Colombia, heightening the US government’s threats and intimidation towards Latin American countries that are not willing to become apron strings to foreign monopolistic hegemony.
For the past week since the referendum victory for the elected Government of President Evo Morales in Bolivia, the Bush Administration, CIA and Pentagon in Washington have quadrupled their activities in Latin America, which to all intents and purposes are directed at destabilising particularly Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia, countries the US have placed on its list for terrorist hunt called “regime change”, and where also the Bush Administration is supporting regional autonomy campaign led by the narcotic-centred, oppressive, oligarchy empire.
The ongoing undeclared war is a cause for serious alarm and the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) wishes to call on the international civilised community to condemn such blatant military terrorism, dangers and threats to peace, security and stability. Forcible regime change violates the well-established principle that people should be able to choose their own government. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights recognised self-determination as a human right, and specifies that all peoples have the right to “freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social, and cultural development”.
The United Nations also prohibits the use of force against the sovereign national independence of another state. The governing charters of the Americas also prohibit forcible regime change. The Charter of the Organisation of the American States (OAS) in particular, affirms that “every State has the right to choose, without external interference, its political, economic, and social system and to organise itself in the way best suited to it, and has the duty to abstain from intervening in the affairs of another State.
We reiterate our call for the international civilised world to use the full force of international moral law against this abominable practices, which when it comes to US military terrorism and threats to the existence of other sovereign independent states and nations are recognised as war crime and crime against humanity.
It must be noted that on 7 August, 2008 the Washington Post, in its vicious, race-hateful and Nazi-fascist campaign, ran an anti-Venezuelan editorial in which the imperialist paper attempted to recycle old mud-slinging allegations against President Hugo Chavez. The corporate media had earlier lied and misled its readers about the progressive reforms initiated in Bolivia by the democratically elected Government of President Evo Morales. The same nasty propaganda and smear attacks against Ecuador, Cuba, Nicaragua, Belarus, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Zimbabwe, North Korea, Burma, etc, for instance are daily read in the corporate media. It must also be noted that, there was a foiled attempted assassination conspiracy plot recently on the life of President Hugo Chavez in North of Colombia where he was supposed to attend an international conference on narcotic drug trafficking.
Those familiar with the aged US government’s subversive activities against foreign governments and nations will agree with the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) that the corporate media is at work, to deceive, mislead and disseminate concocted lies and stories to those who want to still remain in their state of mental apathy. The sole aim of the corporate media demonic campaign against Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and other free nations is to garner public support for US government’s genocidal campaign in foreign lands.
We disagree with the stupid argument that the reinforcement of US military in Colombia is necessary to protect its satellite base in Manta, Ecuador. No sane person would accept reckless argument of such. The truth is that, the US military’s contract with Ecuador expires in 2009 and President Rafael Correa has warned his elected Government has no plan to maintain any foreign military base on the Ecuadorian soil. The democratically elected Government of Ecuador, led by President Rafael Correa has maintained also that it does not want to betray the cause of its people and that the presence of US military base in that country is tantamount to betrayal of the conscience of the Ecuadorian nation.
Besides, we are informed that Colombia , under the comprador, murderous and narco government led by President Alvaro Uribe has offered the US to move its base to Colombia’s Palanquero air force base in Puerto Salgar, about 120 miles away from the capital city, Bogotá.
What is good and believe can contribute to peace, security and stability is a complete withdrawal of US foreign military bases and ending US military terrorism against other sovereign independent nations. The ongoing deployment of US military in Colombia is a threat to peace, security and stability, which must not be condoned by any responsible and caring government, anywhere. With such development, which is tantamount to international military terrorism, we declare the following, that the reinforcement of US military presence in Colombia:
i. Reinforces the Bush administration’s destabilisation plan against the democratically-elected governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia by conspiring to force an unwanted and unwelcome US foreign military base in Latin America;
ii. Constitute a dangerous threat to peace, security and stability;
iii. The comprador government of President Alvaro Uribe in Bogotá continues to assist the overthrow of the democratically elected governments of Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia by allowing so-called autonomy rebels to train in that country and to cause political violence in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia;
iv. The US/Alvaro drug-cartels are plotting to disrupt the coming November Municipal elections in Venezuela, and are aiding narco separatist rebels in Zulia (Venezuela), in Beni, Pando, Santa Cruz and Tarija (Bolivia) and Guayaquil and Guayas (Ecuador).
We conclude by calling on people of good will to exert pressure on the US government and its allies in Latin America to respect the will and aspirations of the people that voted for the democratic governments in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.
Solidarity with Venezuela!
Silidarity with Ecuador!
Solidarity with Bolivia!
Solidarity with the free world!
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
President of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS).
For and on behalf of members and supporters of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS).
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HUGO CHAVEZ INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR PEACE, FRIENDSHIP
> AND SOLIDARITY
>
> HCI-FPFS
>
>
> Press Release
> 29 July 2008.
>
>
> Subject: HCI-FPFS CONDEMNS SECOND TERRORIST ASSASSINATION
> ATTEMPT AT
> THE LIFE OF PRESIDENT EVO MORALES OF BOLIVIA"!
>
> The historical struggle of the indigenous people of
> Bolivia, for
> justice, democracy, freedom and dignity is well known. It
> is a fact
> well-established that the struggle of the Bolivian people
> lasted for
> more than 183 years until recently, in 2005 when Evo
> Morales won
> election to become the first indigenous President of the
> land.
>
> Thanks to the wind of change for justice, democracy,
> freedom and
> dignity, sweeping the Americas, the racist, oppressive,
> plunderous and
> narcotic oligarchy is crumbling and giving way for the will
> and
> aspirations of the people to flourish. To most people in
> Bolivia,
> Latin America and the world, the election of President Evo
> Morales is
> seen as the God-sent Messiah to deliver the Bolivian nation
> from the
> shackles of a system, which is so corrupt, vicious, wicked
> and which
> is hell-bent on degrading and dehumanising people.
>
> The attention of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation
> for Peace,
> Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) has been drawn to a
> terror
> conspiracy, which was aimed at killing President Evo
> Morales, and
> return Bolivia back to the dark era. We are angered by the
> news of a
> well-planned and cowardly and terrorist assassination
> attempt, the
> second within one month, to kill President Evo Morales.
>
> Our Latin American office has reliably informed us that a
> helicopter
> supposed to be used by President Evo Morales during his
> official visit
> to the interior South of Bolivia was sabotaged and crashed
> killing all
> occupants on board, four Venezuelan military personnel and
> a Bolivian
> Major. This terrorist assassination attempt occurred on
> Sunday (19:30
> GMT) July 20, 2008 and undoubtedly was the handwork of the
> former
> ruling right-wing narcotic oligarchy and Foreign Service
> men and
> women, engaged in numerous acts of terrorism against the
> elected
> government of President Evo Morales and the Bolivian
> people.
>
> There is no doubt today that the mass of the Bolivian
> people are
> united in their expression of shocked and outraged by this
> second
> attempt to kill their elected President, and we in the
> HCI-FPFS join
> the Bolivian people and the rest of the free world to
> condemn strongly
> the unending terror conspiracies aimed at the murder of the
> first
> indigenous leader of Bolivia.
>
> It must be recalled that on June 19, 2008 two hired
> terrorists
> attempted to assassinate President Evo Morales while on a
> visit to
> Santa Cruz and prior to this helicopter sabotaged, there
> was another
> attempted terror attack on the public that forced a
> passenger plane to
> make emergency landing.
>
> We call the attention of the international community on the
> terror
> activities of right-wing oligarchy groups in Latin America.
> We believe
> it is the duty and responsibility of all member-states of
> the United
> Nations to see how these unprecedented terrorist activities
> could be
> stopped. The newly elected leftist governments in the
> Americas,
> including Bolivia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Nicaragua, etc are
> being made
> targets for US President George Bush's pipe dream of
> regime change,
> which the US President is pursuing, using all dirty acts to
> accomplish
> his fake agenda.
>
> While we thank the Great Almighty Creator for Guarding and
> Protecting
> the life of President Evo Morales against the enemies of
> peace,
> democracy, justice, freedom and dignity, we wish President
> Evo Morales
> and his government, success in serving the Bolivian people
> and
> reinforcing the foundation and pillars of freedom.
>
> Solidarity with Bolivia!
>
> Sender:
>
> Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
>
> President of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for
> Peace,
> Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS);
> For, and on behalf of HCI-FPFS.
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HUGO CHAVEZ INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR PEACE, FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY
HCI-FPFS
Attention: Jackson Diehl
Editorial Board
The Washington Post
1150 15th Street NW
Washington, DC 20071
USA.
Date: 21st May, 2008.
Dear Mr. Diehl,
PROTEST AGAINST US CORPORATE MEDIA ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT HUGO CHAVZEZ.
We are writing to you on behalf of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS), an independent Organisation dedicated to peace, democracy, human rights, freedom and dignity worldwide. The HCI-FPFS is committed also to identify, expose and fight against the unlimited lies, deceptions and misleading information campaign championed by the US corporate media against the person of President Hugo Chavez; and to defend the goals of the 21st century socialism initiated by the Bolivarian leader.
We have discovered that your newspaper, the Washington Post has in the last few years engaged in sustained and unjustified attacks on the personality and integrity of H.E. Dr. Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected President and Commander-Chief-of the gallant Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
In the first of your scurrilous editorials and op-ed your newspaper sought to impugn on President Chavez as a socialist revolutionary Leader, Teacher and Guide, and secondly sought to in a very disingenuous way call the President all sorts of rude names in your attempt to tarnish and demonise him. In furtherance of your hatreds for President Hugo Chavez, you often refer also to his elected Government as a dictatorship, repressive and authoritarian regime.
As firm believers in and advocate of the rule of law and free exchange of views and ideas in the marketplace, believing that a responsible media is one that reports events objectively, correctly and factually so that its readers and of course all discerning members of society will analyse and make conclusions, and choose between "non" and "sense", we take this opportunity to write this protest letter against Washington Post errors, lies and distortions of the domestic and foreign policy record achieved so far by Venezuela under the incomparable leadership of President Hugo Chavez.
We are truly sickened and outraged that your newspaper has really abandoned the basic and finest tenets of journalism to promote mischief making and assassination conspiracy theories against a sovereign independent nation. We are beginning to suspect that your newspaper is bent on promoting a sinister agenda in Venezuela, the similar tactics the US corporate media employed to lay the ground work for the sad and most unfortunate situation Iraq and the Iraqi people find themselves today. May God Almighty judge between members of the Bush-Blair Administrations and the hapless Iraqi people.
Far be it for the HCI-FPFS to question where the Washington Post stands in the current US led holocaust tragedy in Iraq, but we would like to urge you to ask President George Bush the crime the Iraq people, including women, children, the elderly and young had committed to warrant the ongoing US neo-nazist attacks, destruction and pillage? Have you forgotten that your newspaper was one among the US corporate media outlets that contributed directly to the anti-Iraqi hysteria?
It is our wish in the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) that your editorials and op-ed pages on President Chavez's leadership to contain at least some semblance of truth and a reflection of facts and reality on the ground. Indeed an examination of your repeated editorial depiction of events in Venezuela reveals that the Washington Post operates essentially as a kind of mercenary tool employed to vilify a democratically elected leadership that does not bow down to US imperialism and which is strongly against US international militarism. In deed should you opt for a non-hostile campaign against the person of President Chavez, the American people, of course your readers in particular would have the opportunity to weigh opposing arguments so as to form their own opinions regarding the Bolivarian leader.
Your silence on the US Government's role in the activities of the small minority opposition grouping in Venezuela which has made several attempts to overthrow the elected Government of President Hugo Chavez through illegal, undemocratic and other immoral means is well noted here. While you and our ranks know very well that the Venezuelan opposition to President Hugo Chavez leadership is led by a gang of "narcotic drug Lords" and "terrorist forces" that operate on the US soil with the full backing and support of the White House and the Pentagon in Washington, nonetheless your newspaper systematically vilify the Bolivarian leader in the most ridiculous and absurd way. You will agree with the HCI-FPFS that, these opposition forces have Marshalled columns of mercenaries and armed militia men supported by US combat troops along the Colombian borders with Venezuela. The goal as you know it already is simple to read and understand: "to destabilise Venezuela, overthrow the legitimate Government in Caracas and kill President Hugo Chavez".
This is indeed unfortunate for a widely read newspaper like the Washington Post which operates within the borders of a country that claims to practice civilised norms and standards of behaviours in its dealings with the outside world.
We do not mean you should not vent out your views on the leadership role of President Hugo Chavez ( a leadership whose centrepiece is based on "peaceful and stable Latin America that can combat poverty and alienation of the grassroots; that can build a productive, diversified economic system that allows the building of domestic wealth and the distribution of that wealth through social programs that guarantee freedom and dignity along the path of genuine democratic culture), if you feel the Bolivarian leader's policies contradict the goal of US business interests. We repudiate a system whereby the media is being used as an epicentre of lies, deceptions, distortions, abusive rhetoric and vilification. Your behaviour shows that you have a sinister agenda to create an Iraq in Latin America-possibly to help prepare the ground for the assassination of the Bolivarian Republic.
Mr. Diehl, we do not want to believe that you have intentionally forgotten the basic tenet of journalism in your zeal to use the name of President Hugo Chavez to sell your newspaper. And in your zeal, you are acting as a proxy of the imperialist world that is allied to other major global financial institutions and the Mafia of the oil and armament corporations that are so infamous in world history for having unleashed two global devastating wars, and hungry to devour the profits made out of the blood and tears of humanity. You might know this or you are blindly lending yourself to a regime of countless criminal wars waged by oligarchies, where the victim and enemy is humanity, and the policy is war.
Conversant with the US Government's machinery of mendacity, your proxy hostile propaganda war against President Hugo Chavez is not something new, it is not an isolated incident. But for clarity and knowing the truth and facts on the ground, and for objective view of the New Venezuela under the charismatic leadership of President Hugo Chavez, we wish to state the following, that:
1. President Hugo Chavez is God-send. He has a long and cherished history of personal sacrifice for the freedom and happiness of the oppressed humankind, and standing against immorality and injustice, the principles that the true religions of God Almighty preach and stand for. To the great people of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez is a hero and a man of lofty status, not comparable.
2. Hugo Chavez is democratically elected leader, having participated and won convincingly three times in free, honest and transparent elections. He has the full mandate of the people to steer the affairs of Venezuela as President and Commander-In-Chief of the gallant Armed Forces of the Bolivarian Republic. On assumption into office, President Chavez succeeded a Venezuela of 27 million people, in which over ninety-eight (98) per cent lingered in brutal, devastating and unimaginable poverty created and imposed on the country by a wicked oligarchy class system.
3. The US corporate media, especially the Washington Post's coverage of Venezuela has often been embarrassing and wicked. Naturally, the Washington Post may dispute this fact but will not do so by going through the pages of specific editorials and op-ed filed and what these do and do not say.
4. The US corporate media assumption that President Hugo Chavez is a tyrant, dictator, strong man, autocrat, undemocratic tactician do not only contradicts the truths and facts on the ground. It is a gigantic political blasphemy. Not a day will pass without at least one major US corporate media outlet does not churned out groundless, axe-grinding and manufactured stories about President Chavez. The tactics of the "big Mafia", such as fictitious lies, deceptions and faux student union movement are also being employed by the neo-cons in Washington to vilify President Chavez. All these have failed to achieve their stated goals and objectives-to overthrow the elected Government of President Hugo Chavez by rogue means.
5. Through the grassroots programs of "Plan Bolivar 2000.", "Plan Avispa (Wasp)", "Plan Reviba (Revive)", "Misión Barrio Adentro (Mission Inside the Neighbourhood) », "Misión Robinson (Mission Robinson)", "Misiones Ribas « , "Misión Sucre «, "Misión Habitat », "Misión Guaicaipuro », "Misión Vuelvan Caras (Mission Turn Faces)", "Misión Identidad (Identity) « , "Misión Miranda « , "Misión Vuelta a Campo (Return to the Countryside) », "Misión Arbol (Mission Tree) », "Misión Revolución Energética (Mission Energy Revolution) », etc, President Hugo Chavez has redirected Venezuela's oil wealth into education, health care, housing, job creation, quality food programs, land redistribution and more social programs, which are aimed at raising the living standards of the Venezuelan people. President Chavez has also extended his programs to benefit the poor people of the US and other countries in the world. The success of these programs was confirmed by the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that Venezuela is 99 percent free of illiteracy.
6. The Bolivarian Government led by President Hugo Chavez respects and practices full-fledged democracy that is grassroots centred, grassroots oriented and grassroots propelled. It empowers the majority poor, marginalised, disenfranchised, robbed, oppressed and isolated people of Venezuela to become part of the planners and decision making process and to feel pride that Venezuela today is for every Venezuelan, no matter who you are, what you are or which region of Venezuela you come from.
7. Venezuela has a very vibrant, free, transparent and functional system of rule of law where each arm of Government is independent of each other. There exists an elected National Assembly that initiates, discusses and passes legislations without the President interfering in its day-in-and-day-out activities, contrary to assumptions in the US corporate media that Chavez imposes legislations on the Legislative Body. The same is said also of the Supreme Court where in the President does not appoint any judge or interfere in the Judicial system, contrary to the US where the President appoints judges to the Supreme Court.
8. To say that the economic policies of the elected Government of President Hugo Chavez conflict with US interests in that country is to say the obvious. Venezuela favours "Fair Trade" as against "Free Trade" designed to exploit and rob the poorest people on earth. Venezuela's policy of nationalisation of natural resources is meant to involve the Venezuelan people themselves in the development of all sectors of that country's economy. Whether this policy favours US imperialism or not the HCI-FPFS is not the best qualified to judge. What is clear is that Venezuela is not the 53rd State of the US and that President Chavez is legitimate President of Venezuela, whose policies, decisions, activities and directives are geared only towards meeting the basic needs of the Venezuelan people. Once the Venezuelan people are happy and enjoy their basic rights and democratic freedoms under President Chavez, this is great success for the revolution.
9. Again, we have realised of late that the US media has already begun to dance to the devil's new music album, in its futile zeal to link the Government of President Chavez to activities related to terrorism. This is not surprising taking into cognisance the US Government-s hatreds for Venezuela and its people, with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe's willingness to comply to US evil designs for Venezuela. No wonder the much rhetoric talk of a lap top computer presumed to have been captured during US backed Colombia's invasion and aggression of Ecuador, on 1st March, 2008. The public was told that the documents found in the said computer contained information that linked Venezuela with the activities of the Para-military, FARC in Colombia.
Since then the warmongers began sharpening their axes to seize the chance created by Colombia's big lie and deception to build mountains on the ocean. From the Bush Administration-s ranting in defending Colombia's aggression of Ecuador and from the literature circulated to the public as the truth, it is clear that the US corporate media is only too willing to dance to the new music album, which is title: "Time to get inn with operation cleanse Venezuela". The details of "Operation cleanse Venezuela" have been made public in our press release of 11 November, 2007.
Let us be honest and face the truth for heaven's sake: the US is fast becoming a fascist nation, with President George Bush at the top as the new Hitler of the world who is aggressively running from pole to post searching for avenue to overthrow the elected Government in Caracas, and hiding behind the facade of war against terrorism to terrorise whole nations and peoples.
The CIA invented computer that Colombia's claimed to have captured during the aggression of Ecuador is only a tip from the iceberg, cloned to stir up violent conflict in Latin America, using rogue states like Colombia as the staging post to launch an invasion and terror attacks on Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and other independent nations that reject US imperialism in those areas of the Americas.
The International Police Agency (INTERPOL) was hired to dance to the same music the US corporate media is dancing today, exposing the Agency to public scorn and ridicule. We believe Interpol needs to tell the world the truth and not what is being designed and imposed on it. Did Interpol investigated to know which hands was the said computer before the invasion of Colombia on 1st March, 2008? Does Interpol believe that the alleged murdered FARC leader in the aggression was having such a computer that is so powerful that it contained documents supposedly to be in the hands of FARC Commander-In-Chief?
In spite all these lies, deceptions and dangerous conspiracies, there is no, not even an iota of evidence to suggest that Venezuela is aiding and abetting the activities of FARC in Colombia. What if the US and Colombia come c again and say to the world that the alleged 50 kilograms uranium FARC has acquired has been diverted to Venezuela for nuclear bomb making?
Our thinking is still fresh on US media's widely circulated lie about an alleged computer presumably stolen from the Iranian Military, and which they say contains one thousand page documents that spelt out clearly Iran's nuclear Program. The US Government is now using this blatant lie to make the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Iran inconclusive in order to win American people's support for war against Iran and its people. The problem of terrorism in the Americas is the US which is giving sanctuary to terrorist and drug Lords wanted in their various countries in Latin America for narcotic drug-related crimes and crime against humanity.
The US Government know who are the real terrorists, and not to look for somebody to hang on the halter of death. Where is the renowned Cuban terrorist Posada Carilles who is now walking a free man in the streets of US capitals and cities? What about the five Cuban anti-terrorists crusaders currently languishing in US concentration camps?
10. The world is deeply troubled by the hostile tone used by the Bush-Alvaro alliance against the Government and people of Venezuela, and which is being re-echoed by the US corporate media in a well orchestrated fashion designed to misrepresent Venezuela. The editorials, op-ed and headlines in the US corporate media outlets of late are focused on Venezuela's relationship with the outside world.
More so, you singled out Venezuela's fraternal relationship with Cuba. What the US corporate media has failed to realise is that Cuba is a friend to the hundreds of millions of victims of the obnoxious Atlantic slave trade, merciless colonialism, ruthless apartheid, Zionist terrorism and heinous imperialism; and that any oppressed nation looking unto Cuba as a role model for freedom and human dignity. What would you have to say about Cuba’s social programs-health, education, housing, clean environment, agriculture-which are benefiting the world today? Africa for example benefited lot out of Cuba's humanitarian gestures which the US and its allies can never do. Where was the US corporate media when the Reagan Administration in the 1980s decided to supply the former obnoxious apartheid South Africa with dangerous materials for the making of bombs that are equivalent only to those used in the third world war against the people of Japan? Where was the US corporate media when the US Government created, armed and funded the terrorist activities of the late Jonas Savimbi against Africans in Angola? Thanks to the intervention of Cuba on the side of the African people.
Venezuela relationship with Cuba is natural in terms of historical background and revolutionary comradeship. If the people of Venezuela say they are satisfied with Cuba's romance with their Government who is the US Government to say no.
It is the height of madness for any country to think it can dictate to others what to do, who should be their friends and or should not. Venezuela does not share borders with the US, and why the talk about President Hugo Chavez building a strong Army in Latin America. Rebuilding the Venezuelan Army to conform to the present security and safety needs of Venezuela against any foreign aggression is legitimate, moral and a responsible and responsive act. Venezuela like any other sovereign independent nation reserves the right to self-defence. The Venezuelan Army poses threat to any of its neighbours, let alone Colombia or distance-away US. The invasion of Panama in 1989; the arming and rearming of Israel against its neighbours; the ongoing genocidal wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia and the threat of regime change in the name of fighting terrorism are enough for any responsible Government to equip itself to be able to defend its people, sovereignty and territorial integrity if and when attacked. Venezuela is only doing that, rebuilding its Army to meet the needs of its people.
From the atomic bombings in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Vietnam, North Korea, Palestine, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Eritrea, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Haiti to the threat of aggressive war against Iran, Syria and Venezuela-the US military terrorism has retarded the development of nations around the world. All the five continents of the world are no longer safe under the threat of US military terrorism.
Having stated the above ten points, we can say that the Bush-Alvaro anti-Venezuela postures and abusive rhetoric have failed in all ramifications. This has been proven by the countless international solidarity and support messages that are pouring into Caracas and to all Venezuela's foreign missions around the world. Secondly, the Venezuelan people are ever unified behind their elected leaders to fight their common enemy who is out to destroy them and future generations of Venezuelans. We can assure the US corporate media that the world is standing by to join the Venezuelan people to form human shields against US bombs, missiles, tanks and other weapons. Any attack on Venezuela, believe it would be a disaster because the whole world would fight to defend freedom and integrity against imperialism.
The construction of a multi-million dollar police training complex in El-Salvador, the presence of a billion dollar US led foreign military base in Colombia along the borders with Venezuela; US fighter planes violating Venezuela’s air territory and Pentagon announcement on Monday, May 19, 2008 to send another 42, 000 US combat troops to the Gulf are cause for concerned. Familiar with the US Government's games of systematic burial of the truth down the pit; dishonest accounting; wilful scientific illiteracy; bowdlerised facts sheet; payola paid to willing journalists, corporate media outlets; redirecting the thinking of think tanks to propaganda machinery; and purging intelligence agents and experts, the latest US moves are tantamount to war against humankind.
History would not be kind to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe-the most hated, rejected one by most people in Colombia, as well as the peaceful, democratic, progressive and civilised forces around the world-for plotting the assassination of Colombia’s neighbours. As you are aware, the Alvaro-narco-oligarchy-rule in Colombia acting against the will of the Colombian people is ruthless, unprincipled, devilish, evil-minded, ungodly, wicked, vicious and oppressive. President Alvaro Uribe’s Government is notorious also in mercilessly trampling on the basic rights and democratic freedoms of the Colombian people one after another as he seeks to establish himself the ruler of Latin America.
The Alvaro Uribe’s unholy alliance with the “Bush international gangsterism” is condemned by the free and civilised world. The military, political and economic support provided by the US Government is the single most cause for survival of Uribe’s narco-oligarchy-rule in Colombia. It is strange that the US which arrogated itself the world’s policeman of civil rights and democracy, has given wholehearted support to rogue states like Colombia under Alvaro Uribe. And for realising its political, military and economic hegemony the US knows no morality. As far as the plot to assassinate Venezuela and other countries listed on President Bush pocketbook for destabilisation is concerned, the narco-oligarchy-Government of President Uribe in Colombia is acting as the US willing tool. We are afraid that the US corporate media is hiding these facts we have mentioned above from the American people. This clearly shows that the US corporate media is on a game plan whose aim is to perpetuate the ignorance, consciousless and mental trauma that has become the lot of the American people and their Western European counterparts.
Dear Diehl, there was a speech delivered by John Swanton, a former editor of the New York Times at this retirement party and which we would like to share with you: “There is no such thing as a free press. You know it and I know it. There is not one of you who would dare to write his honest opinions. The business of the journalist is to destroy truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell himself, his country, and his race for his daily bread. We are tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. WE are jumping jacks; they pull the string, we dance; our talents, our possibilities, and our lives are the property of these men. WE are intellectual prostitutes.”
You might not know the game but it is so simple: Every time President Bush is in trouble or he wants to kill a few more people in Iraq or the Middle East. As for evidence, it will always be manufactured by the CIA and MOSSADS to justify whatever evil plan they have. Unfortunately for the Bush Administration has turned the gauntlet on Venezuela and so President Hugo Chavez has become the subject of a sustained attack by the hoaxed in Washington, while your esteemed newspaper is one of the channels for the attacks.
Now that we have revealed to you President Bush new game plan we believe you will now be circumspect and also end the campaign of lies, deceptions and vilifications against President Hugo Chavez and his elected Government in Caracas.
In other societies, some will resort to the law courts and accuse you of deliberately targeting them for public ridicule and scorn. The Government of Venezuela under President Hugo Chavez is not keen to do because it believes in opinions expressed by others. We believe in responsible journalism, let us tell the truth and be fair to each man, woman and child as we try to please our paymasters.
Thanks for your understanding of our concern.
God Bless President Hugo Chavez!
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
President of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS).
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HUGO CHAVEZ INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR PEACE, FRIENDSHIP AND SOLIDARITY
HCI-FPFS
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about
things that matter.”
By MARTIN LUTHER KING Jr.
6th. March 2008.
Dear Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon,
Subject: “Colombian Military Aggression in Latin America: An Open Letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, UN Headquarters, New York, USA.”
The Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) wishes to write you this letter and to register its shock and grave concern over Colombia’s criminal aggression on Ecuador’s territorial sovereignty, which took place on March 1st, 2008.
We are also deeply distressed about the blatant attempt by the Colombian government of the imperialist pawn, Alvaro Uribe to lie to the public, alleging that its discovered during its gruesome invasion of Ecuador some laptop computers containing information about Venezuela funding the Colombian Para-military force, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed
Forces (FARC) of cash amounting to three hundred Dollars. Colombia alleges also that the Ecuadorian legitimate Government of President Rafaal Correa has closer links with the FARC.
The same Colombian anti-progressive propaganda machinery further made the assumption that FARC has acquired 50 kilograms of uranium and that the para-military Movement is planning to make weapons of mass destruction, the same dirty international politicking the US Government used to invade and occupied Iraq. What is not clear here is that, there is no mention of the origin of the said uranium the Colombian vicious propaganda assumed FARC has acquired.
We leave it with your good office of United Nations Secretary-General to investigate these allegations of Colombia and what clause in the UN Charter and principles that give Colombia the right to export terrorist activities into another sovereign independent state, such as Ecuador and Venezuela. We will also like you to convey an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss this latest breach of international law and naked aggression against a member of the world body. You will agree with us that the un-mandated and unwanted aggression of Ecuador by Colombia was an attack on all human and civilised norms; and which must be condemned by the United Nations instruments.
The Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) dismisses these imperialist designed allegations of Colombia as baseless and a bunch of lies, deceptions, intrigues and evil tastes whereby the government of the neo-Nazis criminals in Colombia sets itself the new US imperialist pawn of aggression in the Americas and above international moral laws to unleash terror on its neighbours at will. Mr. Uribe has repeated again and again that it is side by side with the US Government to crush the Bolivarian revolutionary Government of President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela and its allies.
The criminal action of Colombia against Ecuador therefore can be seen as well-planned and calculated war games against all peoples everywhere. It confirms the truth of our information revealed to the public on November 11; 2007 that the US and Colombia are working hard to destabilise Venezuela, kill President Chavez and turn Venezuela into another Iraq under imperialist oppression and ruins.
Mr. Secretary-General, we consider this latest action of Colombia against its neighbours as a shameful moment in the history of the United Nations. We are writing to you to lodge a strong protest against such primitive and cowardly action which is no longer accepted in modern civilisation. We protest against US threats of destabilisation and military intimidation
of Venezuela, and slanderous attacks against the person of President Chavez, whose only crime is using the resources of his country to restore the lost dignity and integrity of the Venezuelan people. We also protest against the presence on the Colombian soil, of US funded terrorist military bases against Venezuela. We protest because, the criminal activity of the government of Mr. Alvaro Uribe towards its neighbours is a cause for the most grievous concern for the international community at large.
Since its inauguration in 2002, the Fascist government of Mr. Alvaro Uribe has been conspicuously indicted of committing systematic human rights violations, gross indiscipline, political arrogance, high graft, immorality and abandoning the Colombian people for self aggrandisement. Its lack of vision, patriotism and direction has brought further misery, brutal poverty and want to the Colombian people. The list is endless.
Worse, regime’s disdainful for democracy and rule of law made it to earn the unprecedented record as the most deceitful, vicious, corrupt and criminal government the world has known in the last fez decades. Since 2002 more than 10,000 Colombians have perished under Mr. Uribe’s political gangsterism, most of these innocent victims are pro-democracy and human rights and freedom-loving activists including political opponents, and ,members of the ,media; while thousands more continue to experience various forms of grave intimidation and harassment on mere suspicion that they are sympathisers of FARC.
The Alvaro Uribe’s government is regarded the most corrupt, fraudulent and mafia in Colombia’s chequered history. The first family is involved in many vicious cycles, particularly dealings in narcotic drug trade with drug barons working to overthrow the Government of President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela by force, with the support of the US Government.
The latest political nightmare that has hit strongly the nerves of many people, more particularly in the light of brutal poverty amongst the Colombian people is the government of President Alvaro Uribe’s blatant violations of all international moral laws and his centrepiece policy of hatreds towards his neighbours, coupled with his criminal wars in the Americas as well as the militarization of Colombia’s foreign policy.
There is now a groundswell of anti-Colombia protests around the world in solidarity and support for Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Cuba and Nicaragua, which are the US/Colombian targets for destabilisation in Latin America. In Colombia, people have been expressing their anger and outrage unprecedented since the beginning of the civil war in that country more than fifty years ago. At the grassroots, localised actions are being held to express the Colombian people’s grievances and condemnation of Alvaro’s government war policies as instrument of oppression and suppression of the liberties of the people and as means for settling international agreements. The Colombian people reject a system that relies on military solution to end the more than five decades old conflict imposed on their country.
The Colombian people have recently beginning to enjoy some sign of home for peace to return to their country. Thanks to President Hugo Chavez “Peace Formulae”, this has laid the foundation for peace, stability and reconciliation in Colombia to start. With the current hostile behaviours of Mr. Uribe, it seems the hope of the Colombian people for peace, stability and reconciliation is now in the gallows. The situation has further gone worst with Mr. Alvaro exporting its terror aggression to his neighbours.
Mr. Secretary-General will agree with us that the militarization of Colombia against its neighbours sets a dangerous precedent and we ask you to act now before the government of Mr. Uribe and its mentors plunge Latin America into serious crises. The principal aide to Mr. Uribe’s military gangsterism is the US Government that gives the rogue state $600 million dollars defence package yearly to further his mad policies beyond the international borders of Colombia. The government of Mr. Alvaro maintains also foreign terrorist military bases on the Colombian soil, threatening its neighbours with aggression. This is coupled with Bogotá’s links with US based anti-Venezuelan drug Lords, working with the US Government to destabilise Venezuela and other countries in Latin America.
So Mr. Secretary-General our ongoing worldwide protest and condemnation of Colombia’s war madness is also in solidarity and support for the Colombian people in their struggle for an end to US military occupation of the country and end to US interference in Colombia’s internal affairs; for the closing of all foreign armed terrorist groups on the Colombian soil, and for the immediate resumption of peace talks between the government of Mr. Alvaro in Bogotá and the FARC and other para-military groups to end the civil war in that country.
How can the world deal with one man who wants to be the Hitler and conqueror in Latin America? The very man whose people has indicted for misuse of state instruments, prolonging Colombia’s civil war and making outside enemies for Colombia.
We call upon the United Nations Security Council, through you to authorise an ICC investigation into Mr. Alvaro Uribe's alleged crimes against the Colombian people and military aggression on his neighbours. We also call on you to send a delegation to Latin America to investigate the damages Colombian aggression has caused for the region and the international community at large.
Concluding, we urge you Mr. Secretary-General to circulate this letter to member-stqtes of the UN body and to make it part of your international documents.
Signed:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
President of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS).
On behalf of HCI-FPF
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Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity
HCI-FPFS
Public Statement 3 March, 2008.
Subject: HCI-FPFS CONDEMNS U.S. BACKED COLOMBIAN AGGRESSION OF ECUADOR!
The world is passing through its most difficult phase in human history. In the name of globalisation, the capitalist class has invented the most wicked lies, deceptions, intrigues, murderous attacks, violent aggressions, brutal occupations and vicious persecution, and merciless looting of the world resources by force of military. These threats and intimidations manifest in the growing imperialist arrogance in its quest for world domination.
On the other hand, “fighting terrorism” and championing “democracy” and “freedom” are the new ploys in the hands of the imperialists to launch barbaric military aggression on countries, to forcibly rape their resources or occupy them and to engineer regime changes. This is the “new world order” that the imperialists led by USA want to impose.
Latin and Central America have now become the main theatre of battle between American aggression and the people’s aspiration for dignity and progress. The collapse of energy giant, Enron heightened US energy needs, and Washington is desperate to have control over the oil and gas deposits in the Americas, particularly in Venezuela and Bolivia. With this end in view the US and the Colombian Government of the Fascist leader, Alvaro Uribe has carved an unholy alliance, targeting the revolutionary Government of the visionary leader, President Hugo Chavez and allies, and friends of the Bolivarian Republic, in that region. The new US/Colombian alliance we gathered is to reinforce “Plan Colombia II”. And the central goal of Plan Colombia II is to ensure the active presence of US military satellite in Colombia against countries in the region that do not tow the US imperialist path. To further strengthens US hegemony and its credentials as the regional bully.
Only few days a number of noteworthy things happened in Latin and Central America. For example, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC) unilaterally released another seven hostages to safer hands. In respond, the US backed Colombian Army invaded Ecuador, killing FARC leaders charged with the swift release of the hostages. Tensions between the proxy US government of President Uribe of Colombia and its neighbours have continue to deteriorate for the worst with Venezuela and Ecuador on alert against any further aggression on their territories by any external forces in accordance with the principles and Charter of the United Nations. The Bush Administration in Washington continues to politicize Colombia’s policies towards its neighbours as hitting the enemy rather than as threat to peace, security, stability and development.
Against this background that we in the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS) vehemently condemn Sunday invasion of Ecuador by the US backed Colombian Army as a grave violation of international laws and should be treated as a war crime. The premeditated aggression of Ecuador by Colombia only reminds the world of Hitler’s brutal attack on Yugoslavia, in April 1941 under code name "Punishment operation". The Colombian shameless and heinous attack manifests also the desire to further US "imperialistic" influence in the region, and the US Government "covertly" encouraged it.
This aggressive attack on another nation constitutes a war crime. The US military backed attack on Ecuador to say the least is an attempt by the U.S. ruling class to maintain global dominance by controlling energy resources and establishing their ability to use military force against any potential threats to their interests. The HCI-FPFS condemns US Government destabilisation policy. The quest for greater profits by global corporations is a major US destabilisation policy. We condemn also the partisan role of the international media that has been part of the US disinformation strategy.
We don't believe in violence, but short of that we will protest against, condemn, pray and hope that world opinion does not ignore this barbaric, horrendous, disastrous and naked invasion. We urge the international community to react immediately to stop this latest US military backed aggression against Ecuador, which we believe also is a criminal war against humanity.
The international community now faces a grave challenge and it must act to meet this, otherwise no one will remain safe in the world.
While we express solidarity and support for the Government and people of Ecuador against US backed Colombia’s aggression, we call on all countries and their leaders to declare the Government of President Alvaro Uribe as terrorist gangsters and as war criminals.
Solidarity with Ecuador!
Long live Ecuador!
Long live Ecuador-Venezuela Friendship!
Long live the Bolivarian Revolution!
Sender:
Alimamy Bakarr Sankoh
President of the Hugo Chavez International Foundation for Peace, Friendship and Solidarity (HCI-FPFS)
For and on behalf of HCI-FPFS
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Dear Sir / Madam
I am 46 years old, Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan (muslim). I was an immigration consultant in Canada and also member of Canadian Bar Association as part of my business , I had an office in New York.
During 2001 immediately after the Sept 11, event the US govt arrested me on Oct 25, 2001 on anonymous call, as a material witness for the 9/11 world trade centre terrorist attack. A detail investigation by the FBI and USA Naval intelligence dept was conducted and I was cleared, but even then govt put me in front of Grand jury , and I was cleared and the case was dismissed by the Grand jury of the US Federal Court .
Approximately after 2 weeks , before I was released from custody the US Govt imposed a new charges of Fraud and money laundering , under the advice of my attorney , I pleaded guilty and I was sentenced to prison for five years (which was four years more, what I pleaded). In which I had already spent 3 years in Detention jail, during the case , I had about 14 months left to finishing my sentence ,(instead of appealing, I preferred to applied for Treaty Transfer to Canada, because if the case is in the appeal, defendant is not eligible for transfer back to his home country).
While at prison, I learned from the case manager Miss Hause, that my citizen was incorrect in the FBOP’s (Federal Bureau of Prison) computer system as Pakistani instead of Canadian.
Its important to note , that all of my Canadian identifications (passport , citizenship card , S.I.N , Health card , Driving license etc) were under FBI’s possession, with a great deal of concern, I wrote a letter to the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo, N.Y to notify such mistake and requested them to fix this problem. This is especially important for Treaty Transfer back to Canada.
The Canadian Consulate official sent a letter to the jail to correct my citizenship status, however FBOP ignored the request and the citizenship status in the FBOP computer still reflect Pakistani instead of Canadian (Note:- I would be required to obtain visa to visit Pakistan) .In contrast , the deportation letter received from US Immigration dept, Contained the correct citizenship status of Canada.
At the hindsight, I believe that the FBOP intentionally left the citizenship as Pakistani, so that they could retained me at their facility, while the govt is planning to file new charges against me 3rd time.
Approximately six weeks before my released date on Jan 30 ,2006 I was notified by the FBOP that I was being transferred from Allenwood , PA to MDC (Metropolitan Detention Centre) in Brooklyn N.Y, it was explained to me, that the purpose of this transfer was in preparation for deportation back to Canada, (after few days, I signed the immigration deportation papers, with my consular Miss Chen).
But immediately after my arriving to MDC Brooklyn, I discovered during a phone call with my family in Montreal, that RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) official had contacted my sister and brother-in-law regarding the whereabouts of my wife and my current situation, there was no explanation given by the RCMP official to the purpose of the call and he left his phone number and asked my wife to call him back immediately, my wife called the RCMP official and left messages in his voice mail. Then the official contacted my brother-in-law again and had asked him to tell my wife not to call again, because there is nothing good nor anything bad.
Meanwhile the AUSA ( Astt United States Attorney) office Investigator and FBI brought me to their office to be interrogated without an attorney present, even AUSA told in the court to the judge on March 16, 2006 that he arranged attorney for me before my arrival from Allenwood PA to MDC Brooklyn, N.Y, on Transcript; page 11, Transcript line No: 14 to 23.
AUSA:-
He (Khalid Awan) was writ in the cause of a grand jury investigation. He clearly had criminal exposure. So to protect his interest I made an application to the duty magistrate for counsel to be appointed.
THE COURT:-
Initially he was brought here by a Court to testify before the grand jury?
AUSA:-
That is correct, Your Honour.
THE COURT:-
When he arrived here, you made arrangements for an attorney to be pointed to request him?
AUSA:-
Yes, Your Honour.
This interrogation started with the AUSA office Investigator stating that my family will be arrested in Canada if I refused to answer their questions.
At this point I am certain that my family is in great danger for reasons that I am not aware of. I was scared that my family would be harassed by these people along with the Canadian RCMP official, I strongly believe that the RCMP is doing this intentionally in collaboration with FBI official to further harass me to admit charges, that I never committed.
Without knowledge of the reasons why the Canadian RCMP agency was involved. I was surprised that RCMP official directly approached my family instead of me without proper explanation, and its also shocked for me, that how RCMP got the phone number of my family (because before my arrest, I don’t have any single record in any police dept, of any country).
I was intimated and pushed to the edge during this interrogation, I was determined to provide anything these USA officials wanted to make them happy even is the questions made no sense, because I want them to stop the harassment to my family.
On March 15, 2006 I completed the term of my imprisonment and was to be released from American Custody and deported back to Canada. Before that I was arrested again 3rd time, and charged with providing “material support to a foreign terrorist” and money laundering (to a organization and person, which are not designated by the USA govt and belongs to Sikh religion) , and with whom, I don’t have any single common interest, because we both are from different countries and different religions.
These charges emerged while I was still in prison and without the capability of providing any type of support. It was even difficult for me to get enough financial assistance to pay legal fees. I could not have provided any material support while I was in prison for five years and I could not launder any money because I did not have any.
AUSA filed three counts of indictment against me.
Conspiracy to provide material support.
Provide a material support to the foreign terrorist.
Money laundering to support terrorism.
(Please note, that in my previous case govt charged me for money laundering and fraud from Jan 1999 to 2002 and “its mentioned in the plea-agreement by the AUSA that no further money laundering charges will be brought against defendant from Jan 1999 to April 2002” even then govt indict me for money laundering from 1998 to Nov 2001 (Which is double Jeopardy and violation of 5th Amendment of U.S Constitution.)
In Oct 2006, during pre-trial hearing on the motion’s filed by my attorney the first two counts of my indictment were dismissed by the judge, stating that there is a lack of facts and figures.
After two weeks AUSA re-indicted me again. I believe this is a desperate act of the AUSA to cover up a huge embarrassment . Further this hastily drawn indictment was full of factual errors and creative legal theories.
Since I was first arrested by the American govt, I believe that I have been singled out, isolated `and discriminated against primarily because of my race and religion, in addition to the fact that I don’t know any information that the American govt is trying to pressure out of me.
I do not understand the American laws and this is what led to my pleading guilty in the first case. I have difficulty understanding the new charges also.
I have been charged under, section 2339(a) of Title 18 of the United States code, which makes it illegal to provide material support to a foreign terrorist.
Please understand, I am not a terrorist, I do not know any terrorist and I have had no connections with or to any known or unknown terrorist. I have been incarcerated for last 5 years and I had no money to provide or launder.
The law enforcement have in America is pressuring me to provide information to them that I really do not have or know. I am a Canadian Citizen and nearly all of my family is in Canada, including my wife and kids. I don’t know any information to tell them to help their investigation.
Because of this , I am being treated unfairly and my rights under the American constitution are being violated. I am being held here in further detention against my will for crimes which I could have never committed, because I was in prison.
I believe, that I am a victim of the discrimination that was outlined in the July 3, 2006 issue of Time magazine (Page 29, column 3). In this article section 2339(a) & (b) are discussed and criticized “as most suspects are charged under these two sections. However, the justice dept here in America admits that of the more than 218 guilty pleas that it has obtained, most are for minor investigation issues that are uncovered deeding the course of their terrorism investigation. This suggest, according to the article that the Attorney General’s office have is not concerned about the rights or fairness or the manner in which it achieves convictions for the people they arrest. Furthermore, criticizes have noted that one of the patterns to emerge from these domestic prosecutions is that suspect seen too incompetent to carry out the deeds they are accused of. The Deputy Attorney General acknowledges that the Dept of Justice’s goal is “ preventions through prosecution’s” and this is done with no regard for an individual’s rights.
I agree that these guilty of terrorism should be prosecuted . But as the above mentioned article suggest , innocent people should not be targeted because of their race or religion.
I am not a terrorist and I should not be targeted and treated unfairly and unjustly.
I need your assistance desperately in my case, as I believe that I am being treated unjustly here. I would like to send you my attorney’s contact information and provide you with legal documents related to my case, so that you may become more familiar with my situation.
Please also note, that I appeared in the court , for no guilty of my 2nd superseding indictment on Aug 02, 2006 and on Aug 03, 2006 FBOP officials placed me in the SHU (Segregation Housing Unit) out of these months, I placed in the SHU isolation from Jan 03, 2007 to March 6, 2007 for unknown “Pending Investigation” in these 215 days of my segregation and isolation, I don’t have a single phone call access to my family, no legal calls to my attorney and Canadian Council, my legal mail opened in my absence, no medical treatment for my injured shoulder (even I went for hunger strike for 3 and half day) I harassed by the various jail officials and lot of other problems too which already been submitted in the attention of the FBOP higher authorities, but no action taken on them, after writing the court, instead of receiving the response or any action on my complaints, jail officials removed /moved me from MDC federal facility to Nassau County Jail .
My suffering has gone on for far too long, and I need your help to bring my suffering to an end. I want to return home to my family, because my imprisonment was injustice and will remain a great injustice forever.
May God bless you and be with you in your efforts to champion the cause of human rights, and the suffering of innocent prisoners and restore hope, faith and love to peoples all over the world.
Sincerely,
KHALID AWAN
FBOP NO. 50959-054
The court will be on 12 September 2007.
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A OPEN LETTER TO THE UNO SECTORY GENERAL
UNITEDNATION
Respected Sir;
Khalid awan is agood-natured,God-fearing man,good behavoured man see and look upon his past history in Pakistan and canada AND USA ,A man of well attitude ,behaviour . His whole life is rememberable with friends and with every body.he did not give any hurt ,any bad words to any body in the world.He has no any link with any kind wrong people, he thinks every time positive. this preplanned, bogus.fabricated,modified case imposed upon khalid awan by FBI and collaboration with RCMP Canada, is a totally unbelievable and strange and a bogus. since a long time khalid awan was facing harassment in jail and his family also facing harassment and threats by the FBI and RCMP in canada and and also in Pakistan.We appeal and request to all the organisations in the world specially in USA and CANADA , UNO and All the humanrights agencies and amnesty,ngo,s should interfere in this false ,modified case against khalid q awan canadian. hand over khalid awan to canada or pakistan .
please ; save the life of khalid awan innocent canadian. and transfer him or hand over to canada or pakistan because he is a canadian and pakistani citizen and He never Did any kind of crime direct or indirect in any country in this world.
August 1, 2007 3:56 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Dear Sir / Madam
I am 46 years old, Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan (muslim). I was an immigration consultant in Canada and also member of Canadian Bar Association as part of my business , I had an office in New York.
During 2001 immediately after the Sept 11, event the US govt arrested me on Oct 25, 2001 on anonymous call, as a material witness for the 9/11 world trade centre terrorist attack. A detail investigation by the FBI and USA Naval intelligence dept was conducted and I was cleared, but even then govt put me in front of Grand jury , and I was cleared and the case was dismissed by the Grand jury of the US Federal Court .
Approximately after 2 weeks , before I was released from custody the US Govt imposed a new charges of Fraud and money laundering , under the advice of my attorney , I pleaded guilty and I was sentenced to prison for five years (which was four years more, what I pleaded). In which I had already spent 3 years in Detention jail, during the case , I had about 14 months left to finishing my sentence ,(instead of appealing, I preferred to applied for Treaty Transfer to Canada, because if the case is in the appeal, defendant is not eligible for transfer back to his home country).
While at prison, I learned from the case manager Miss Hause, that my citizen was incorrect in the FBOP’s (Federal Bureau of Prison) computer system as Pakistani instead of Canadian.
Its important to note , that all of my Canadian identifications (passport , citizenship card , S.I.N , Health card , Driving license etc) were under FBI’s possession, with a great deal of concern, I wrote a letter to the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo, N.Y to notify such mistake and requested them to fix this problem. This is especially important for Treaty Transfer back to Canada.
The Canadian Consulate official sent a letter to the jail to correct my citizenship status, however FBOP ignored the request and the citizenship status in the FBOP computer still reflect Pakistani instead of Canadian (Note:- I would be required to obtain visa to visit Pakistan) .In contrast , the deportation letter received from US Immigration dept, Contained the correct citizenship status of Canada.
At the hindsight, I believe that the FBOP intentionally left the citizenship as Pakistani, so that they could retained me at their facility, while the govt is planning to file new charges against me 3rd time.
Approximately six weeks before my released date on Jan 30 ,2006 I was notified by the FBOP that I was being transferred from Allenwood , PA to MDC (Metropolitan Detention Centre) in Brooklyn N.Y, it was explained to me, that the purpose of this transfer was in preparation for deportation back to Canada, (after few days, I signed the immigration deportation papers, with my consular Miss Chen).
But immediately after my arriving to MDC Brooklyn, I discovered during a phone call with my family in Montreal, that RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) official had contacted my sister and brother-in-law regarding the whereabouts of my wife and my current situation, there was no explanation given by the RCMP official to the purpose of the call and he left his phone number and asked my wife to call him back immediately, my wife called the RCMP official and left messages in his voice mail. Then the official contacted my brother-in-law again and had asked him to tell my wife not to call again, because there is nothing good nor anything bad.
Meanwhile the AUSA ( Astt United States Attorney) office Investigator and FBI brought me to their office to be interrogated without an attorney present, even AUSA told in the court to the judge on March 16, 2006 that he arranged attorney for me before my arrival from Allenwood PA to MDC Brooklyn, N.Y, on Transcript; page 11, Transcript line No: 14 to 23.
AUSA:-
He (Khalid Awan) was writ in the cause of a grand jury investigation. He clearly had criminal exposure. So to protect his interest I made an application to the duty magistrate for counsel to be appointed.
THE COURT:-
Initially he was brought here by a Court to testify before the grand jury?
AUSA:-
That is correct, Your Honour.
THE COURT:-
When he arrived here, you made arrangements for an attorney to be pointed to request him?
AUSA:-
Yes, Your Honour.
This interrogation started with the AUSA office Investigator stating that my family will be arrested in Canada if I refused to answer their questions.
At this point I am certain that my family is in great danger for reasons that I am not aware of. I was scared that my family would be harassed by these people along with the Canadian RCMP official, I strongly believe that the RCMP is doing this intentionally in collaboration with FBI official to further harass me to admit charges, that I never committed.
Without knowledge of the reasons why the Canadian RCMP agency was involved. I was surprised that RCMP official directly approached my family instead of me without proper explanation, and its also shocked for me, that how RCMP got the phone number of my family (because before my arrest, I don’t have any single record in any police dept, of any country).
I was intimated and pushed to the edge during this interrogation, I was determined to provide anything these USA officials wanted to make them happy even is the questions made no sense, because I want them to stop the harassment to my family.
On March 15, 2006 I completed the term of my imprisonment and was to be released from American Custody and deported back to Canada. Before that I was arrested again 3rd time, and charged with providing “material support to a foreign terrorist” and money laundering (to a organization and person, which are not designated by the USA govt and belongs to Sikh religion) , and with whom, I don’t have any single common interest, because we both are from different countries and different religions.
These charges emerged while I was still in prison and without the capability of providing any type of support. It was even difficult for me to get enough financial assistance to pay legal fees. I could not have provided any material support while I was in prison for five years and I could not launder any money because I did not have any.
AUSA filed three counts of indictment against me.
Conspiracy to provide material support.
Provide a material support to the foreign terrorist.
Money laundering to support terrorism.
(Please note, that in my previous case govt charged me for money laundering and fraud from Jan 1999 to 2002 and “its mentioned in the plea-agreement by the AUSA that no further money laundering charges will be brought against defendant from Jan 1999 to April 2002” even then govt indict me for money laundering from 1998 to Nov 2001 (Which is double Jeopardy and violation of 5th Amendment of U.S Constitution.)
In Oct 2006, during pre-trial hearing on the motion’s filed by my attorney the first two counts of my indictment were dismissed by the judge, stating that there is a lack of facts and figures.
After two weeks AUSA re-indicted me again. I believe this is a desperate act of the AUSA to cover up a huge embarrassment . Further this hastily drawn indictment was full of factual errors and creative legal theories.
Since I was first arrested by the American govt, I believe that I have been singled out, isolated `and discriminated against primarily because of my race and religion, in addition to the fact that I don’t know any information that the American govt is trying to pressure out of me.
I do not understand the American laws and this is what led to my pleading guilty in the first case. I have difficulty understanding the new charges also.
I have been charged under, section 2339(a) of Title 18 of the United States code, which makes it illegal to provide material support to a foreign terrorist.
Please understand, I am not a terrorist, I do not know any terrorist and I have had no connections with or to any known or unknown terrorist. I have been incarcerated for last 5 years and I had no money to provide or launder.
The law enforcement have in America is pressuring me to provide information to them that I really do not have or know. I am a Canadian Citizen and nearly all of my family is in Canada, including my wife and kids. I don’t know any information to tell them to help their investigation.
Because of this , I am being treated unfairly and my rights under the American constitution are being violated. I am being held here in further detention against my will for crimes which I could have never committed, because I was in prison.
I believe, that I am a victim of the discrimination that was outlined in the July 3, 2006 issue of Time magazine (Page 29, column 3). In this article section 2339(a) & (b) are discussed and criticized “as most suspects are charged under these two sections. However, the justice dept here in America admits that of the more than 218 guilty pleas that it has obtained, most are for minor investigation issues that are uncovered deeding the course of their terrorism investigation. This suggest, according to the article that the Attorney General’s office have is not concerned about the rights or fairness or the manner in which it achieves convictions for the people they arrest. Furthermore, criticizes have noted that one of the patterns to emerge from these domestic prosecutions is that suspect seen too incompetent to carry out the deeds they are accused of. The Deputy Attorney General acknowledges that the Dept of Justice’s goal is “ preventions through prosecution’s” and this is done with no regard for an individual’s rights.
I agree that these guilty of terrorism should be prosecuted . But as the above mentioned article suggest , innocent people should not be targeted because of their race or religion.
I am not a terrorist and I should not be targeted and treated unfairly and unjustly.
I need your assistance desperately in my case, as I believe that I am being treated unjustly here. I would like to send you my attorney’s contact information and provide you with legal documents related to my case, so that you may become more familiar with my situation.
Please also note, that I appeared in the court , for no guilty of my 2nd superseding indictment on Aug 02, 2006 and on Aug 03, 2006 FBOP officials placed me in the SHU (Segregation Housing Unit) out of these months, I placed in the SHU isolation from Jan 03, 2007 to March 6, 2007 for unknown “Pending Investigation” in these 215 days of my segregation and isolation, I don’t have a single phone call access to my family, no legal calls to my attorney and Canadian Council, my legal mail opened in my absence, no medical treatment for my injured shoulder (even I went for hunger strike for 3 and half day) I harassed by the various jail officials and lot of other problems too which already been submitted in the attention of the FBOP higher authorities, but no action taken on them, after writing the court, instead of receiving the response or any action on my complaints, jail officials removed /moved me from MDC federal facility to Nassau County Jail .
My suffering has gone on for far too long, and I need your help to bring my suffering to an end. I want to return home to my family, because my imprisonment was injustice and will remain a great injustice forever.
May God bless you and be with you in your efforts to champion the cause of human rights, and the suffering of innocent prisoners and restore hope, faith and love to peoples all over the world.
Sincerely,
KHALID AWAN
FBOP NO. 50959-054
The court will be on 12 September 2007.
July 31, 2007 1:43 PM | Report Offensive Comments
To all Free People of the World,
That is right. I said I am mad at the Middle East. Let me break this down for you folks. I am tired of the fighting and the killing and the dying. I am not suggesting that I want the US to bring our troops home. Unfortunately, as peace, love and happiness as that seems it would be a horrible mistake. And no matter what anybody says it is completely NOT feasible. Not only would that be the biggest military blunder of ALL OF HISTORY it would create tidal waves (scratch that, it would create: TSUNAMIS) of repercussions throughout the Middle East and the eventually in the West. Bad idea plain and simple, but I digress... My point is WE the American people, WE the western world, WE the free people of the world, who cherish and value our everyday simple and mundane lives, have got to stand up against this inhumane insane conflict. Not against the troops. Not against the WAR. Instead I suggest a huge peace movement to motivate and support those people of the middle east who are not radical. Those people who practice the good teachings of Allah and his prophet. These are the people who suffering. Their freedom of living a simple mundane life is being threatened by the radical factions that are igniting this conflict.
Do you remember the WE ARE THE WORLD campaign? The US and others banded together to bring an end to hunger in Ethiopia. What about the huge campaign going on now to bring awareness and stop the violence in Darfur? Heck, Bono practically single-handedly ended the violence in Ireland. But what are WE doing for the Middle East? Crying about bringing our troops home. The US should pull out, accept defeat, and let the Middle East handle its own problem. Right? WRONG!! People argue that we invaded Iraq for a number of self-serving imperialist reasons. None of which I believe. But at this point it no longer matters WHY we went in. The point is that are troops are there now and they have one purpose; to bring peace and stability to the region.
Let me give you a break down of what is going on in the region now. This is not a war of the US vs. Iraq. This is a war of Sunni vs. Shiite. And unfortunately the US ignorantly played a hand in inflaming this centuries old (about 1,300 years) conflict. When Muhammad died he did not have a plan of succession. The Sunnis believed that most qualified religious leader should become the new leader of Islam. The Shiite believed that the descendents of Muhammad were the rightful rulers. And there you have it, in a nutshell. The countries bordering the west of Iraq have a Sunni majority. Iran, which, borders the east of Iraq has a Shiite majority. Iraq is right in the middle! Now let's look at Iraq. The north of Iraq is inhabited by Kurds (separate ethnic group), the south of Iraq is Shiite and borders Shiite dominant Iran. The center of Iraq is Sunni and shares borders with its Sunni neighbors. The oil in Iraq can be found in the North (Kurds) and the South (Shiite), NOT in the center (Sunni). The water supply in the middle of this desert can be found in the North and the South, not in the center. So here we can quickly see why it is not so simple to just divide the country into 3 countries or republics.
So back to the Sunni vs. Shiite war. Whether or not Al-Qaeda had a significant presence in Iraq before 9/11 is no longer relevant to establishing peace. Leave that for the history books. But there was folly in the US invading Iraq. Bin Laden had expressed the basic goals of his terrorist activity as described in the MAY/JUNE 2007 Foreign Affairs article Al Qaeda Strikes Back by Bruce Riedel:
"He seeks to 'provoke and bait' the US into 'bleeding wars' throughout the Islamic world; ...The demoralized 'far enemy' would then go home, allowing al Qaeda to focus on destroying its 'near enemies,' Israel and the 'corrupt' regimes of Egypt, Jordan, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia." That is one good reason why we can't pull-out. So this is the ultimate goal of Al-Qaeda. Do you see the end game? It is not the US. It is not the West. It is for ultimate control of the Middle East, with the US and the West to tired, broke and fed up to care. Sometime in 2003 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi fled to Iraq to prepare for the uprising against the US. In order to demoralize the US endeavor he 'focused on the fault line in Iraqi society'-Sunni/Shiite- with the GOAL of igniting a civil war. He did this by promoting the Sunni's to attack the Shiite (the previous powerhouse of Iraq, even though they were a minority). So al-Qaeda and the Taliban are supporting the Sunni side of the civil war they created. Now in steps Iran (Shiite majority), lending support, weapons, and training to its Shiite brothers in Iraq. [remember the US does not like Iran, so when you hear the news how Iran is fueling the war, keep in mind that that does not necessarily mean against the US, they are supporting the Shiites against the Sunni). OI! What a problem! Especially because the US is losing ground against the Taliban who are now thriving in northern Pakistan, Iraq and spreading into Europe.
OK PEOPLE WAKE UP!! Can you see that out troops can not win this? And we definitely can not bring them home. And nobody wants to send more. But this region is in an extremely perilous state. The hearts of people around the world go out to the impoverished, starving, diseased, and to victims of genocide. But what about the Middle East? Where is the compassion for the people who have to live IN this war? What about all those people who are not signing up for suicide missions, all those people who are afraid that the US might leave them? All those people who want peace and the ability to pursue happiness? Why don't we have huge fundraisers, rallies and concerts to promote unity of Islamic brothers? Can't we all just get along? It can start here, now at this very moment. We have many immigrants from the Middle East who left their beloved motherlands to seek peace and freedom in the US. Why don't we band together in a massive grass roots effort to support our immigrants? We can show them love and kindness, the true spirit of freedom and humanity. We can work with them to spread this idea to their families still in the Middle East. We should not turn our back on the problem there. It is not going to go away. It is not going to be solved with military might. There needs to be a change of spirit; strengthen those who feel weakened by war. Create a Muslim movement for peace. Enable the common man to stand and fight against the extremists that preach war and violence. The extremists and terrorists use this VERY tactic to promote their agenda and rally recruits. Let's use their tactic and against them. REACH OUT TO YOUR NEIGHBORS AND RECRUIT FOR PEACE!!!
I am serious guys. Do not just read this and think hmm that's nice. Start talking to your neighbors. Get to know them. Where are they from? Why did they choose to move here? What are their views about uniting a peaceful ISLAM? How can you work together to spread this idea?
What can you do to support our troops? You can help stop the spread of hate.
Sincerely,
Jennifer
July 28, 2007 12:49 AM | Report Offensive Comments
Mr. Ban Ki-Moon,
Welcome. Do you see the problem in the U.S.? Do you understand what our problem is? If not, let me, very quickly, tell you. All of the insanity that you see over here is the result of an addiction to 'things'. It is not, so much, the fault of the people, as a whole, but to the tendency of people, as a whole, to be manipulated by others. Sometimes, when a person can't see anything to life but things, the thing they are attracted to is control: power. Those that have this particular addiction are the most dangerous people on the planet. They are also the ones that 'need' the most. Their plan is to get more. That's all. They are no different from the person addicted to clothes or sex. They are each and every one insane for they live in the illusion that things are important. With the person addicted to power and control it is crucial that he create addiction in others. This done he can manipulate there world to his ends and as long as their addictions are not threatened he can do what he 'needs'. To see the proof of this all one has to do is watch TV. Everything says, "Here! Get this and, you too, can be happy". It doesn't matter what the thing is: a concept, a job, a pill or a sweater. The message is, things are important. Happy people have things. Schools focus on educating children to be consumers. This is the saddest part of it all: at the time when a child could become something wonderful, when we could let see life and experience the joy of awareness, we insure it becomes another thing.
Feel free to contact me at dgswilson@gmail.com Thanks for your time
July 21, 2007 5:25 PM | Report Offensive Comments
A open letter FOR UN SECTORY GENERAL AND HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATIONS .
Canadian / Pakistani Khalid Q Awan Facing Injustice .
Khalid Q Awan detainee is now facing different preplanned, Fabricated charges in NewYork USA during his jail period,Khalid Awan is now looking forward your special attention and help towards this case for saving his innocent life. As we know, he is innocent and you can do further correspondence with him in detention centre NewYork USA and his attorney Khuram and Maher LLP NewYork to find out the reality and truth, and to bring the reality in front of the world that no innocent face that kind of the situation in future.
Khalid Q Awan detainee himself disagree with the charges imposed on him by the FBI, The charges are not related with him by all means. How can be possible a person in jail /custody since 9/11 now become terrorist while he proved not guilty in the same court in the past. So he is looking forward your help to get the justice and Clear and fair investigation in these imposed fabricated charges. It is possible with the involvement of the organizations like your’s, so that the innocent will come back to his normal life This is the mission of the human rights commission that innocents to be protected in all over the world from injustice ,and illegal Custody.
As by the press reports and by governments officials, In the court room only FBI representatives and some press reporters were present and no one else was there to see what is going over.
Help requested from high officials in Canada, U.S.A, and UNO & also from the NGOS who work for the human rights in all over the world.
Once again the request for find out the truth and reality in the above case.
With best wishes and regards
The whole family of Khalid Q Awan from Canada and Pakistan.
The court will announce a decision on 12-september 2007.
Dear Sir / Madam
I am 46 years old, Canadian citizen and native of Pakistan (Muslim). I was an immigration consultant in Canada and as part of my business , I had an office in New York.
During 2001 immediately after the Sept 11, event the US govt arrested me on Oct 25, 2001 on anonymous call, as a material witness for the 9/11 world trade centre terrorist attack. A detail investigation by the FBI and USA Naval intelligence dept was conducted and I was cleared, but even then govt put me in front of Grand jury , and I was cleared and the case was dismissed by the Grand jury of the US Federal Court .
Approximately after 2 weeks , before I was released from custody the US Govt imposed a new charges of Fraud and money laundering , under the advice of my attorney , I pleaded guilty and I was sentenced to prison for five years (which was four years more, what I pleaded). In which I had already spent 3 years in Detention jail, during the case , I had about 14 months left to finishing my sentence ,(instead of appealing, I preferred to applied for Treaty Transfer to Canada, because if the case is in the appeal, defendant is not eligible for transfer back to his home country).
While at prison, I learned from the case manager Miss Mause, that my citizen was incorrect in the FBOP’s (Federal Bureau of Prison) computer system as Pakistani instead of Canadian.
Its important to note , that all of my Canadian identifications (passport , citizenship card , S.I.N , Health card Driving license etc) were under FBI’s possession, with a great deal of concern, I wrote a letter to the Canadian Consulate in Buffalo, N.Y to notify such mistake and requested them to fix this problem. This is especially important for Treaty Transfer back to Canada.
The Canadian Consulate official sent a letter to the jail to correct my citizenship status, however FBOP ignored the request and the citizenship status in the FBOP computer still reflect Pakistani instead of Canadian (Note:- I would be required to obtain visa to visit Pakistan) .In contrast , the deportation letter received from US Immigration dept, Contained the correct citizenship status of Canada.
At the hindsight, I believe that the FBOP intentionally left the citizenship as Pakistani, so that they could retained me at their facility, while the govt is planning to file new charges against me 3rd time.
Approximately six weeks before my released date on Jan 30 ,2006 I was notified by the FBOP that I was being transferred from Ellenwood , PA to MDC (Metropolitan Detention Centre) in Brooklyn N.Y, it was explained to me, that the purpose of this transfer was in preparation for deportation back to Canada, (after few days, I signed the immigration deportation papers, with my consular Miss Chen).
But immediately after my arriving to MDC Brooklyn, I discovered during a phone call with my family in Montreal, that RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) official had contacted my sister and brother-in-law regarding the whereabouts of my wife and my current situation, there was no explanation given by the RCMP official to the purpose