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16 Words: New Court Filing Suggests Manufactured Terror Threat in Bush’s 2002 State of the Union
Mother Jones
Tuesday, Oct 21, 2008
A new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees suggests that the Bush administration ordered the Bosnian government to arrest and hold the men after an exhaustive Bosnian investigation had found them innocent of any terrorism related activity and had ordered their release, in order to use them as props in Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union speech.
The filing–”Lakhdar Boumediene, et al., Petitioners, v. George W. Bush, President of the United States, et al., Respondents, Petitioners’ Public Traverse to the Government’s Return to the Petition for Habeas Corpus”–lays out the case that the Bush administration threatened at the highest levels to withdraw diplomatic and military aid to the Balkan nation if Bosnia released the men, which its own three-month investigation had found innocent of any terrorism charges in the days leading up to Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union.
Faced with the threats of the withdrawal of aid and that if it released the men, the White House would order NATO troops to detain them, Bosnia transferred the men under duress to the custody of the US government in January 2002, and the US transferred them to Guantanamo. Ten days later, in his 2002 State of the Union address, Bush used sixteen words to warn Americans that, in “cooperation” with the Bosnian government, it had captured terrorists who had planned to bomb the US embassy in Sarajevo: “Our soldiers, working with the Bosnian government, seized terrorists who were plotting to bomb our embassy,” Bush told the nation.
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But, six years later, the detainees’ new petition says, after the US Supreme Court has sided with the detainees and ordered the US to give the detainees habeas corpus rights, the Bush administration has failed to repeat the embassy plot charges that Bush used in his State of the Union address, or to produce credible evidence of why the men should be held as enemy combatants.
(Bush also used 16 words to falsely claim in his 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had sought yellowcake uranium from the African nation of Niger — a claim the White House had been previously repeatedly warned by the CIA was unfounded and which the White House later admitted Bush should not have said, months after the US invasion of Iraq).
The 58-page traverse petition was filed today in the US District Court for the District of Columbia (.pdf). Some key excerpts from its preliminary statement below the fold:
…Now that the Government at last faces a merits hearing before an Article III Court, the thinness of its basis for detaining Petitioners is plain. … The Government nowhere acknowledges—and indeed, has done its utmost to avoid—the thorough investigation performed on the ground by Bosnian authorities in 2001. … By mid-January 2002, both the prosecutor and the investigating judge had concluded that no basis had been established to hold Petitioners even for further investigation. …
Now that the Court has finally ordered the Government to provide reasons for its continued military detention of Petitioners, its assertions in 2008 bear very little relation to its reasons for Petitioners’ initial extrajudicial rendition from Bosnia in 2002. The United States’ original claim was that Petitioners were supposedly plotting a terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo.
Indeed, in the 2002 State of the Union Address, delivered fewer than ten days after Petitioners were flown by plane to Guantanamo, President Bush stated: “Our soldiers, working with the Bosnian government, seized terrorists who were plotting to bomb our embassy.”
Notably omitted from the President’s account was the fact that the three-month investigation carried out by Bosnian authorities failed to unearth any evidence to warrant further investigation, let alone sufficient evidence to charge Petitioners with any terrorism-related crime. … The Government’s unclassified Return makes no mention of the claim that Petitioners “were plotting to bomb our embassy.”
“But rather than acknowledge its errors,” the filing says, “the Government has compounded them through vague allegations.”
The petition indicates it was filed to the court accompanied by more than 150 exhibits in support of its claims, including sealed statements from former US official Philip Zelikow, former CIA officer Paul Pillar and Harvard University Bosnia expert Andras Riedlmayer.
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October 21st, 2008 at 10:09 am
“They want a fascist planet with the superwealthy ruling it all
Since we’re too independent, America must be led to fall
When our credit’s been exhausted to subdue the Middle East,
They’ll install our debtor nation in the body of The Beast
Traitor…Dare call it treason”
–The Cornbread Mafia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw5dP5gy2Vs
October 21st, 2008 at 10:58 am
Will you stop already with that retarded cornbread mafia spam
October 21st, 2008 at 11:47 am
its all lies!
October 21st, 2008 at 12:43 pm
(Would someone please stop this Cornbread Mafia poster from copy/pasting advertising lyrics to his own music?)
October 21st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
There’s no choice in freedom
There’s no voice in freedom
We dont have a choice
Anymore Anyway
We dont have a voice
Anymore Anyway
KEEP YOU IN THE DARK, YOU KNOW THEY ALL PRETEND!!!
Check out this anitmuslim site someone showed. I e-mailed the webmaster and told them they are going to hell. ID advice you do the same.
usawakeup.org
October 21st, 2008 at 2:54 pm
They paid $5,000 or so a head for innocent Afganis to be detained in Gitmo for years claiming they were terrorists. Now we discover that Bosnia was threatened with no US assistance unless innocent men were transferred to be detained indefinitely there too. Bush claimed a BS plot to blow up our Embassy where none existed after they were scurtinized by Bosnian intelligence and found to be innocent.
It takes the use of restoration of Habeus Corpus and a Supreme Court decision to undo what Bushnicks ordered for these people: 6 years and running and Gitmo. How can these men ever be repaid for false imprisonment? On it goes. The cesspool of a dictator, that is what Gitmo is.
October 21st, 2008 at 3:06 pm
So basically the Bush administration has once again been caught lying, and no impeachment hearings? THIS IS A DICTATORSHIP! Peace.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:11 pm
Seriously, somebody should cut Bush’s balls off…. This is a real man’s world and sorry to say Bush is not a man at all…
October 21st, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Silver was a real bargin at $20.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:23 pm
This country has already had a coup and no one did any thing about it. The current government continues to lie and deceive it’s people. When 90% of the people say no bail out, they never listened. They did it any way. Most people know that 9-11 was an inside job. still nothing from the people. They have killed as many as 3 million Iraqis. ( Reminds me of Germany in world war II. There people claimed ignorants too. ) Still nothing from the people. They create an anthrax scare ( that’s traced back to a US military base here in the US ). They destroy the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Still nothing. The world wants to know why the American people don’t do any thing about it. And still they do nothing. Whats it going to take. A next time. Because if that’s what it is then you better have a very clear plan as to what it is YOUR going to do. Share some idea’s. Put them out there. Maybe we can get a lot of good people behind good idea and make something good happen in this great county. But if people don’t start sharing there ideas and find a place to start then…well….GAME OVER.
October 21st, 2008 at 4:37 pm
Protestor tries to arrest ROVE in San Francisco.
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October 21st, 2008 at 4:55 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAckfn8yiAQ
IT’S CALLED CHRISTMAS!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:56 pm
Yeah we always knew they were patsies in Guantanomo. So its nice to have this info. to back us up. The only people that didn’t know or care to know were the stupid military and the stupid republicans. I saw so many young arrogant punks sign up just so they could take out their rage on middle eastern people. I detest our military. Dont tell me for one second that I need them….I dont. The only reason our military even exist is to stir up trouble, black-ops against peaceful nations and to contrive boogey men for us so we spend all of our GDP on the pentacon. You so called Jesus lovin’ republicans ought to be ashamed of yourselves you divisive bunch of treasonous trash. You not only voted for this lying trash once but you did it again. Just couldnt get enough of war and deregulation could you?
I hear all of you talking about Obama being the Antichrist and all that voo doo crap you get from your churches but I tell you this…from what Ive seen of your man Bush, flase flag terror and bankrupting the country how could Obama do any worse? Really. The irony is all you church trash vote against anyone who is pro choice yet you support a lieing ass president who has killed more innocent kids in Iraq over lies. Or jailed innocent people and ruined their lives just to make war on terror look legitamate. If you care so much about little babies then why dont you go to these hospitals and adopt these little black babies born out of wedlock to these poor mothers? Yeah thats what I thought. So stfu about pro choice. It doesnt mean we condone abortion it simply means we leave the choice to the mother…and hopefully its the choice of life, but this isnt a perfect world and I dont see very many white pro lifers adopting black babies so there is tragedy to some of this. Ill go a step further and say you christian churches dont even support birth control in the form of contraceptives…thats just stupid. I never read in your bible where it said contraceptives were a sin. Maybe thats just those crazy catholics.
But to you white republican so called christians how can you go wrong by taking a chance voting for Obama/Biden? I tell you this , if you dont vote it will make it easier for the military industrial complex to put their choice in power and we all know that is McCain/Palin. At least the peoples choice will not be as easily coerced into doing their bidding. Im white and Im voting for Obama, Ive met decent upright black people in my life and Im not going to be a scared racist. As far as Ive seen its you republicans that are the hypocrites and the anti christs. Anything Jesus would want you do the opposite. If black folks voted for Jesus you would vote for the devil. You wouldnt believe how many white people Ive met that wont vote for a black man yet its those same white people that accuse Obama of bringing racism into this campaign…HYPOCRITES! Voting for Obama doesnt mean you are empowering those thug blacks that live down the street from you and play their bass music too loud. Are stupid biker rednecks any different with their loud motorcycles? Id rather take a chance with Obama because white people have failed me and are a bunch of crooks and liars and muderers. I gladly accept a black candidate. Also thank you Colin Powell!
October 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
All politics is a stage show, people. These grinning idiots are paid to frantically compete for our attention so that we don’t pay attention to their employers: the bankers that own the Federal Reserve.
If you obediently run out to vote on Election Day you’ll merely be helping to prop up the appearance of a democracy that doesn’t actually exist.
If you want to live in a free society, you will need to start using an alternative currency within a new system that these criminal bankers and their politicians can’t touch.
A system with an inflation-proof currency that is not subject to income tax has been formulated (see link below). When we stop using their money, the Federal Reserve will die and their politicians will be out of a job.
Don’t fight the system:
Replace it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73×8uOXQjag
October 21st, 2008 at 5:27 pm
It keeps going one going with no end in sight.
That is how it feels, but there is an end.
And that end approaches, and will soon be here.
What everyone doesnt want to talk about.
And that is civil war.
It will take place. The clash of civilization will happen.
Again. They are not going to jail. They are not going to stop. They are never going to surrender. There will come a point when the camels back breaks.
People who say such things are not wanted often even in this so called movement. I will keep saying it. You all better get your heads out of the clouds and start preparing. It is coming. And as of yet I have not heard one logical argument or suggestion of how its going to be stopped.
I will tell you. You might not like it, but its the truth.
Ultimately they have to be killed. They have to have a spear ran through their hearts. The vampires that they are.
You dont kill a Vampire with words, voting, protesting, congres, etc. You kill them with a stake through the heart. Do you still think that our enemy is made of the same DNA as we?
Do you?
We are not dealing with rational entities. We are dealing with demons that have nothing to loose.
And they need killing.
They need destruction. Because throughout history they keep raising their ugly heads.
You know chop at the root and not the branches.
That what all this other shit is, branches. We need to chop the head off, literally.
You might think Im not stable. I think you are not stable. You people whom we have waited on long enough to fix this problem. You are incapable of doing so. You are not better than the sheeple that you denounce at every chance, rubbing and stroking that ego, so that your own insecurities are pampered.
We have waited. We have observed. You stiff armed us in the chest as we where moving forward, telling us to “hold on”, “give it a chance”. The peacemaker now needs to move out of the way, and make room fort he Warrior. You have had your chance and say.
Now is the time for WAR, for BLOOD, to strike swiftly and precisely with mortal blow the serpent standing on our shores.
Enough already, wake up to reality, this is the only way. Enough. We have tried the other ways, been patient, waited for results from the mass of people through this ‘educational’ drive we have all been on. The American public is dead, they died years ago, and there is no bringing them back on this side of war, only on the other, when they have come to their senses.
Why do you think those military leaders met like they did?
They are planning our deaths while we try to make peace.
First rule of war. You engage your enemy on a level playing field, both physically and mentally. If you fail in following this rule you have already lost.
The reason the Gandhi method worked then is because it could THEN. The point of time we have come to now, was NOT back then. This is a different war now.
Again. Peacemaker out. Warrior in.
If you do not begin to conceptualize this at the very least, there is going to be no ‘hope’ of your survival.
October 21st, 2008 at 6:32 pm
Hey Dave everything that happens in politics is pre-planned as for voting for a black man simply because your black makes you a racist but it’s not the racism in your post that got me mad its your absolute clueness when it comes to actually voting in another scum bag CFR pushing NWO front man. So fuck you Dave and the sheeple who agree with you. I hope when we are are all rounded up you are taken first asshole…..
Wake up sheeple the election is a fraud this is in response to post 13 from Dave the racist sheeple
October 21st, 2008 at 7:28 pm
FOREIGN PRISONERS DO NOT BENEFIT FROM HABEAS CORPUS…THAT IS A PRIVILIGE THAT APPLYS TO AMERICAN CITIZENS….THESE BRAINWASHED MUSLIM AGENTS OF DEATH SHOULD NOT BE EXTENDED THIS PRIVILIGE. WE ARE EXTENDING SO MUCH OF THE BENEFITS OF BEING AN AMERICAN, THAT SOON IT WILL MEAN NOTHING TO BE AMERICAN…..
FUCK THE COMMUNISTS – ALL AMERICANS, ARM YOURSELVES AND YOUR FAMILIES
October 21st, 2008 at 7:35 pm
#15 Observer
You da man…….
Rock n Roll.
So when does your war start warrior ?
Hope youve been training, because the serpent has….
October 21st, 2008 at 7:38 pm
#13 Dave-
Wake up dumbass. Do you really think Obama is not the “military industrial complex” choice? McCain is there to make sure that Obama wins just as Kerry, Gore, and Dole before him. The puppet masters have used the republican party the last 8 years like it did the democratic party the previous 8 and will now switch the democrats into power again. If you can’t see that then you need to get your mind right junior. They couldn’t be happier that the people (pronounced “sheeple”) ignorantly support Obama like he’s a rock star or some great hope for change. He won’t end the war in Iraq, he’ll more than likely start war either abroad or inside our borders. He will use all the power George Bush has taken but because idiots like you blindly trust him you won’t notice or will refuse to believe it when he conducts his war on the US citizen. That is because first he’ll go after those rednecks you speak of, or some other group than yours. Oh, and watch your mouth when you speak insults about our military. There are many good men and women serving our country asswipe, and you may just find that you need one someday. You better be grateful there are upright men and women still willing to serve when you probably don’t do shit for the country. We aren’t a perfect nation, but don’t paint us all as if we are just our worst bunch. Its the steadfast minority that will save your whiney ass if you are lucky.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:41 pm
#17 Joe,
I can’t believe I have to say this:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
That is a declaration for ALL men jackass, not just US citizens. Damn the sodium flouride!
October 21st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
#17 Joe-
AMERICA, FUCK YEAH!
I couldn’t help but say that.
October 21st, 2008 at 7:46 pm
And do not think that I have ran, you who whisper. I have gone to people that hunger for information. People, that if knew what has been done to them, would kill ever person of Anglo Saxon decent on the planet.
I speak no lie. So I have to be very careful when pointing out who exactly that I am talking about.
Let us begin the the Rothschild’s family. If they do not voluntarily give themselves us, all of them, and have them tracked down, using the Grandfathers DNA to map and archive them ‘individually’. Use their own documents once impounded to trace this hereditary sequence. Lock them up for the entire lives until they die, thereby ceasing the line.
I dont think they are going to do this do you. Then from there, all there tentacles need killing, so that they dont regrow the head. You digg?
Then, using the information from their secret libraries and vaults, locate the inter dimensional entities that are upon the earth and contain them.
How?
Remember Ghost Busters?
Remember once the gateway was opened the only way to close and contain, and then shut it was by crossing (x) a field with another, thereby reversing the polarity. And then containing them in a grid whereby their energy would dissipate until “the grid is clear”.
Which reminds me. I wonder then what the LHC is being used for.
Another Ping!
But this appears to be the only way to stop the Illuminati in full.
Because they do keep reappearing after doing underground when things get hot for them.
The subsection groups of the Order are well documented. If we start drawing attention to them, and their members, and the connection do what they are doing that is beyond immoral, then they will at least be identified for assassination, for in the future their will come that point once the New World Order is in place, and then their will be no way to acquire that information then. That is the reason now.
Quite frankly, the risk of prison now is worth the price of Humanity, and that is why as many of them as possible need exterminating.
This could take place by agents within the CIA, NSA, DIA, and various other branches of the Government. Of course this would have to take place simultaneously, other wise others when then become afraid and fail the ‘long term’ mission due to fear. Thousands of instances would need to take place as well.
Now, what purpose would this serve?
Taking out key conduits between the secret government and the puppet government would create TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It would by the time to further plans that many of us have been hiding from, and “putting off for the last minute”. Well, the last minute is here friends.
The secret government would then have to replace many key people. They would be vulnerable, thrown off balance, and this would take place around key moments coming soon to further throw them off balance.
It would also create something, I dont know what, but something, something that would stick out, that would get peoples attention.
Now Im not talking to anyone here but a few people, and you know who you are.
You know how the game works.
And you know I not full of shit when I say that many people are going to die if they are not stopped, at ALL COSTS!
Im talking to you.
Which side are you on?
You still have hard choices to make that you have been putting off.
More is at stake than what one realizes.
God?
I have spoken to him when I was young. But that was a long time ago.
Things change. Innocence is lost. Children grow up, and realize that nothing is truly known, and that is truth. There is hope and faith. But those things are not truth. And the truth is simple nothing is known. Nothing of any real ‘relevance’ other than where here.
If that is true then, all of this doesnt matter. None of it. Only that we are here.
That is the excuse used to allow perpetuation of all the Worlds BULLSHIT!!
It is true, but these things are taking place in the now. If I come to your house, break in, smash your head in, and rape your wife, IN THE NOW, I dont think people would still have this ‘live in the now’ la la attitude.
So which one is it, because the majority of the people are suffering on this Earth for one reason and one reason only.
The People of United States of America.
Everything from Eugenics, to electromagnetic radiation, and everything in between has come from our country, been funded by our country. Sold by our country. Most of this disgust that we have ‘allowed’ to be exported to the World passed before our very eyes through Congress. (gasp, someone taking personal responsibility)
It is mine, and everyone of your faults, regardless of what the apologist will say.
We allow.
If you go up to any person today, and ask them if they would allow someone to kill their children, poison their fathers, rape their mothers, and basically kill KILL KILL, how many of these people would say that they would stand for that, who would say such a thing?
But we all have. And now the country is mad with demon Americans that smite you just for speaking with any type of principle or reason.
Stupid mother fuckers.
Youre everywhere, you disease.
If we cut the head off and deal with the rest of the body in parts we will end this here and now, just in time for 2012.
What is it going to be?
Time is running out and choices have to be made, and soon.
Humanity is in the balance.
October 21st, 2008 at 8:42 pm
WORD!
October 21st, 2008 at 11:48 pm
its not totally related but things would be better if they legalized the funk like where I’m at now- Spain, not just Holland any more. Its legal to grow & carry a small amount of the super funk & there’s no paranoia of getting arrested, cuz cops just walk bye as you cough huge clouds of boo-ya. Anyway, back to the police state stuff you were talking about.
October 22nd, 2008 at 2:15 am
What an Evil man your president is, just like Hitler.
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:10 am
Grambo #20 That was exactly what I thought of when I read Joe blow’s comment. That is the big big problem! When Americans think that Justice is JUST-US it loses it’s meaning and becomes something else. Born and raised in this country I have watched it slide into a country of proud idiots. Most of these products of TV brainwashing flag waiving fools that no longer resemble an AMERICAN!
October 22nd, 2008 at 5:53 am
It amazes me that a privately owned corporation can actually have the power to get away with this type of behavior. We can’t even deal with them in court like a regular corporation (like they are) and sue them for embezzlement and fraud. We can’t sue them or hold them accountable…ever. Why? Because attorneys and accountants have vowed through pledging to support this very system. We can’t even address the court without an attorney. We have no voice in court without one. The United States of America Corporation actually holds all the cards regardless of how we vote or if we choose to deal with them in court. If there was a way for an average American citizen or taxpayers to do anything about it…it’s been prevented by some regulation, law or pledge by a public servant.
The only thing the average citizen has going for them is not knowing that their own pledge by volunteering (by parents signing your birth certificate and you signing your SS card) would actually create this. They bond you to the system with these two security documents. Basically, you have been engaging in a contract unknowingly and through disception by our own governemnt (which happens to be a privately owned corporation).
According to our current commerical and admiralty laws…the corporation we all work for (America) is immune from ever being accountable for anything…ever. That’s the facts. This is what they have done with OUR EXEMPTION.
October 22nd, 2008 at 6:17 am
When will all americans wake up to these murders and what they are doing. They stole the election murdered our friends and family and robbed this country blind.
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