Remi Brulin sur Twitter : "One lesson 2018 has taught me: When it is revealed (by well-known Israeli journalist) that Israeli senior officials created & ran a “terrorist” group that used car bombs to kill hundreds of civilians in 1980s, US media &"terrorism experts" can be trusted to remain SILENT about it" / Twitter
▻https://twitter.com/RBrulin/status/1079790656078467072
#leçon (quand on ne peut pas traiter quelqu’un de complotiste on tait ce qu’il révèle)
Iraq PM orders removal of British-made fake bomb detectors
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/04/iraq-orders-withdrawal-uk-fake-bomb-detectors-baghdad-haidar-al-abadi-j
For the past nine years, Iraq’s security forces have tried to stop car bombs with a British-made bomb detector wand that was long ago proven to be fake. A day after a car bomb killed at least 157 people in central Baghdad, the country’s prime minister, Haidar al-Abadi, has demanded their withdrawal.
After the single deadliest attack in Iraq this year, Abadi also ordered a renewed corruption investigation into the sale of the devices from 2007-10, which cost Iraq more than £53m and netted the Somerset businessman James McCormick enormous profits, as well as a 10-year jail sentence for fraud.
▻https://seenthis.net/recherche?recherche=James%20McCormick&follow=all
Depuis donc 2013 ...
Il aura donc fallu deux ans pour que quelqu’un nous explique que sur les 53.275 photos de « César », 24.568 sont des photos de soldats de l’armée syrienne et des services de sécurité, et de gens tués (on ne se demande curieusement pas par qui) dans des attentats, attaques, voitures piégées… Pour les 28.707 autres images de cadavres, HRW « comprend » qu’ils sont morts entre les mains du régime ; et plus précisément, HRW a réellement enquêté sur… 27 personnes tuées.
Je ne doute pas que le régime syrien pratique la torture et les exécutions sommaires à large échelle (« avant 2011 », la Syrie faisait même partie, nous disait-on, des pays vers lesquels les États-Unis envoyaient des gens se faire torturer dans le cadre des extraordinary rendition). Mais si un site « hum-hum » avait expliqué, depuis 2 ans, que la moitié des photos de César étaient en réalité des cadavres de gens « du côté » du régime, et que seuls 27 cas étaient réellement identifiés, tu ne l’aurais pas cru (je pense qu’on aurait trouvé que ce genre d’affirmation aurait relevé de la paranoïa complotante).
If the Dead Could Speak
►https://www.hrw.org/node/284486
The largest category of photographs, 28,707 images, are photographs of people Human Rights Watch understands to have died in government custody, either in one of several detention facilities or after being transferred to a military hospital. What distinguishes this batch of photographs is that all the bodies in them have identification numbers, typically three separate numbers, either written directly on the body or on a paper that is placed on the body or held in the photograph frame. There are multiple photographs of each body, typically four to five but ranging between three to more than twenty. SAFMCD, which reviewed the entire collection and logged the photographs by individual body, found that these 28,707 photographs correspond to at least 6,786 separate dead individuals each with their own unique identification numbers.
The second category of photographs are images of dead army soldiers or members of the security forces. These photographs were also taken in the morgues of military hospitals. However, unlike the first batch, the cards on these photographs include the name of the person who died, and sometimes the date of their death. In many cases, their name is prefaced by the word shahid, or martyr, in Arabic, as well as by their military rank. In addition to the cards, their name, the word shahid, and their military rank also often appear in the file name.
The third category of photographs taken by the Syrian Military Police can be described as crime scene photographs taken in the aftermath of attacks and cover several categories of incidents including the aftermath of explosions, assassinations of security officers, fires, and car bombs. The name of the folder in which sets of photographs were saved indicates the type of incident, the date, and sometimes, the name of the victim. Human Rights Watch was able to confirm some of these incidents and killings, which were covered in the Syrian media at the time they occurred and provide further evidence as to the authenticity of the photographs.
[…]
To verify the photographs, Human Rights Watch conducted in depth investigations into the cases of 27 deaths in detention of people whose bodies appeared in the photographs. The investigations included examination of evidence provided by families of the deceased and fellow detainees. Human Rights Watch also examined photographs of the 27 detainees before their arrest and compared them to the photographs of their dead bodies smuggled out of Syria by Caesar.
Exemple (parmi tant d’autres) d’article au ton définitif mais qui n’a pas vu que la moitié des cadavres étaient du côté du régime, parfois même avec leur grade et la mention « martyr » : SYRIE. 45.000 photos d’atrocités : "Ce livre montre le vrai visage de Bachar al-Assad"
▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20150929.OBS6738/syrie-45-000-photos-d-atrocites-ce-livre-montre-le-vrai-visage-
Entre 2011 et 2013, « César », photographe de la police militaire syrienne, a copié et fait sortir au péril de sa vie 45.000 photos et documents de détenus qui ont péri dans les geôles de Bachar al-Assad. Il vit désormais caché quelque part en Europe.
Espérons que les rédactions du Monde, de France Culture et Cie qui ont fait le forcing il y a quelques jours sur César et ses photos lisent les sites « hum-hum » ou mieux Seenthis.
▻https://www.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/3x2h1d/hrw_report_if_the_dead_could_speak_mass_deaths/cy16sw3 explains that "local coordination committees have started sites where family or friends can come to identify their love ones who disappeared. Obviously HRW has to limit its scope, but the 27 people it reported are only a fraction of those from the collection who have been identified"
v. aussi ce que j’ai (et d’autres ont) posté concernant #Caesar :
►http://seen.li/9cw2
Il y a notamment eu un documentaire passé sur la RTS, avec des témoignages de victimes de torture, je ne sais pas s’il est possible de le revoir sur le site de la RTS (surtout si on est hors Suisse) :
▻http://seenthis.net/messages/431876
▻http://seen.li/61w7
Et il y a ce site :
►https://www.vdc-sy.info/index.php/en
Je ne sais pas qui a torturé qui... mais c’est atroce.
Syrie : de nouvelles preuves des pratiques de torture dévoilées
On connaissait « #César », le photographe de la police militaire syrienne, qui a fait défection en 2013, en emportant avec lui les clichés de milliers de cadavres, ceux de Syriens décédés dans les geôles du régime Assad. Son histoire a été retracée par la journaliste Garance Le Caisne dans un livre-entretien (Opération César, Stock, 240 pages, 18 euros). On connaît désormais le nom et l’histoire de certains de ces prisonniers, dont lui et ses collègues étaient chargés de tirer le portrait après leur mort.
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/proche-orient/article/2015/12/16/la-machine-de-mort-en-syrie-revelee-par-un-rapport-de-human-rights-watch_483
2013,
Why Western media frames civilian areas as “Hezbollah strongholds”
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/16757
western et médias locaux pro western media
And herein lies the problem. By calling a residential neighborhood a “Hezbollah stronghold,” western media softens public opinion to accept these terror attacks as justifiable, and their targets, legitimate. Because the only reason for characterizing civilian Shia neighborhoods as “strongholds” of Hezbollah is to justify carnage against those populations most likely to support the Lebanese resistance group.
Similar language - War on Terror, terrorism, militants, extremists, Al Qaeda - is also frequently employed to excuse western carnage in countries from Iraq to Afghanistan to Mali to Yemen to Pakistan. Droning and bombing targets are rarely characterized as “civilian,” even though data suggests that most victims of US attacks are not militants. The goal? To eradicate second thoughts about violence against innocent civilians - often bolstered by a complicit media that characterizes these deaths as “collateral damage.”
While the term “stronghold” can simply refer to an area in which an organization, party or point of view holds sway, in the context of US foes in the Mideast, it is instead usually used to suggest a militant base absolutely controlled by that foe. As one tweep noted, western media uses similar language against other American targets to scene-set for “excusable” carnage: “Hezbollah stronghold” for car bombs in Lebanon, “Assad stronghold” for car bombs in Damascus; “Assad heartland” for massacres in Latakia."
Dahiyeh - the scene of Thursday’s explosion - is also, for instance, home to significant Maronite Christian and Sunni communities. And even within the suburb’s Shia community, there are disparate political views and affiliations. It is by no means true that all Shia residents are supporters of Hezbollah, a Lebanese political party that - in lieu of national political consensus - provides local social services and security for residents of all sects and backgrounds in these areas.
Un des très rares articles où fief, bastion et autres stronghold n’apparaissent pas,
▻http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/beirut-bomb-scores-killed-in-twin-suicide-blast-in-lebanese-capital-a
Beirut bomb: ’At least 43 dead’ in twin Isis suicide blast in Lebanese capital
As many as 100 people have been injured in what is believed to be a twin suicide attack in the predominently Shia neighbourhood
Two car bombs kill six in #Baghdad
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/two-car-bombs-kill-six-baghdad
Two car bombs struck Baghdad on Monday, killing six people and wounding a dozen others, police and medical sources said. The explosions occurred as the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki battles jihadi insurgents who have taken over large parts of northern and western #Iraq and threatened the capital. The first bomb exploded in the central district of Alawi, killing three people and wounding six. The second struck in the western neighborhood of Bayaa, also killing three people. (Reuters)
Twin car bombs kill 18 in central #syria: state TV
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/twin-car-bombs-kill-18-central-syria-state-tv
Two car bombs in Syria’s central province of #Hama killed 18 people, including 11 children, and wounded 50 others on Friday, state television said. It said the explosions took place in the towns of Jibrin, a few miles northeast of Hama city, and al-Hamairi. Friday’s attack came after a double car bombing claimed by al-Qaeda killed dozens of people on Tuesday in the central city of Homs. (Reuters)
Deadly car bombs target political rally in #Baghdad
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/deadly-car-bombs-target-political-rally-baghdad
Two car bombs at an election rally in Baghdad for a political party killed at least 10 people Friday, officials said, just days before nationwide parliamentary elections. Medical sources told Reuters that three blasts killed at least 18 at the event. The blasts went off at around 5:30 pm at a rally for the Saadiqun bloc, the political wing of the Asaib Ahel al-Haq militia, according to a police colonel and a medical source. At least 21 people were wounded. read more
Thirteen #car_bombs rip through #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/19360
Iraqis react near the remains of a vehicle at the site of an explosion in #Baghdad on April 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi) Iraqis react near the remains of a vehicle at the site of an explosion in Baghdad on April 9, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi)
Attacks across Iraq, including 13 car bombs, killed at least 18 people Wednesday, highlighting the persistent danger from militants 11 years after American forces took Baghdad. The latest violence is part of a protracted surge in nationwide bloodshed that has killed more than 2,400 people so far this year. Eight car bombs struck seven separate areas of Baghdad around 10:00 am (0700 GMT), killing at least 11 people and wounding at least 49, security and medical officials (...)
Fourteen killed in #Baghdad #bombings
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/fourteen-killed-baghdad-bombings
At least 14 people were killed in nine bomb explosions in the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, officials said, as Iraq suffers its worst violence in years. The seven car bombs and two roadside bombs, which hit six different areas of Baghdad, also wounded more than 60 people, the sources said. The deadliest single attack was a car bomb in the Karrada district in central Baghdad that killed at least three people and wounded at least 10. Baghdad, one of the most frequently-targeted cities in the country, is hit by near-daily bombings and shootings. read more
Seven #Egyptian_Christians found dead on Libyan beach: security sources, residents
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18768
Libyan police have found seven Egyptian Christians shot dead on a beach in eastern #Libya, security officials and local residents said on Monday, in the second such execution-style killing since the start of the year. A police officer told Reuters the bodies were found with gunshots to the head outside Benghazi in the east, where assassinations, kidnappings and car bombs are common and Islamist militants are active. “They were killed by headshots in execution style,” a police officer said. “We don’t know who killed them.” read more
Deadly blasts kill 49 in #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/deadly-blasts-kill-49-iraq
An Iraqi girl stands near debris in the aftermath of an explosion in the Ur district in eastern Baghdad, on February 18, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Ten car bombs in central Iraq, including five in Baghdad, killed at least 49 people Tuesday, officials said, after another series of blasts the day before. Iraqi authorities have so far failed to curb a year-long surge in violence plaguing the country, despite carrying out wide-ranging operations against militants. The blasts in the Iraqi capital hit four different areas, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 30. read (...)
Syria rebels and regime share blame for Yarmouk catastrophe | Asa Winstanley
►http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/syria-rebels-and-regime-share-blame-yarmouk-catastrophe
Bitari says “a growing minority of young Palestinian activists” started to make contacts with the opposition, apparently including the “Free Syrian Army” (a loose association of anti-government armed groups).
In late spring 2012 they had to cut these ties off after “the FSA began floating the idea of planting car bombs inside the camp to get residents to invite them in for protection. At that point, even these strongly anti-regime young people could not continue the ‘coordination.’”
On 18 March 2012 there an explosion in Yarmouk, though reports different on whether it was a car bomb or a suicide bomb.
Lebanese forces arrest Abdullah Azzam Brigades member, dismantle car bombs
►http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-forces-arrest-abdullah-azzam-brigades-commander-dismantl
El-Nashra reported on Wednesday afternoon that the man who was supposed to detonate the Corniche al-Mazraa car bomb was arrested. The news website identified the man as Mohammed Mahmoud.
“Immediately after the start of his interrogation, Abbas admitted having prepared a car bomb to detonate it later,” the statement read “The car found in Corniche al-Mazraa was dismantled by experts, with about 100 kilograms of explosives and explosive belts on board, in addition to a number of shells.”
The army added that Abbas had revealed the existence of several other hidden car bombs, which were currently being investigated.
Car bombs rock Baghdad as HRW issues damning report on tortured #Women
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/car-bombs-rock-baghdad-hrw-issues-damning-report-tortured-women
Seven car bombs exploded across Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 13 people in apparently coordinated attacks, security sources said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the bombings. But Islamist militants have been regaining ground in #Iraq, particularly in the western province of Anbar where they overran two cities on January 1. read more
Latest killings push #Iraq death toll past 900 this month
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/latest-killings-push-iraq-death-toll-past-900-month
Bombings near a market and a restaurant in Baghdad killed six people on Thursday as the death toll for January topped 900, with no end in sight to Iraq’s worst #violence since 2008. Blasts struck the Baghdad neighborhoods of Kasra and Talbiyah on Thursday morning, hours after several car bombs ripped through commercial areas of the capital. The latest #bombings killed at least six people and left 20 others wounded, security and medical officials said. read more
Wave of #car_bombs in #Iraq kills scores as army loses ground in #Anbar
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/18231
Iraqi police stand guard at the site of a car bomb in central Baghdad, on January 15, 2014. Attacks in and north of the capital including a suicide bombing at a funeral and seven car bombs, which killed at least 39 people officials said. (Photo: AFP - Ali al-Saadi)
A wave of attacks in Iraq, including a series of coordinated car bombs in Baghdad, killed at least 58 people Wednesday as gunmen continue to gain more territory from security forces in crisis-hit Anbar province. The twin setbacks for authorities grappling with Iraq’s worst period of unrest since the country emerged from an occupation that killed tens of thousands come just months before landmark parliamentary elections. read (...)
#car_bombs kill 25 across #Baghdad
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/car-bombs-kill-25-across-baghdad
Four car bombs killed at least 25 people in Baghdad on Monday, police said, in violence that coincided with a visit to the Iraqi capital by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Although no group claimed responsibility, the bombings appeared to be part of a relentless campaign by al-Qaeda-linked militants to undermine Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The deadliest attack occurred in the neighborhood of Shaab in eastern Baghdad where a car bomb exploded in a commercial area, killing 11 people and wounding 28. read more
Suicide attacks, car bombs leave 21 dead across #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/suicide-attacks-car-bombs-leave-21-dead-across-iraq
Suicide attacks and bombings across Iraq killed at least 21 people on Monday, medical and police sources said, the latest in a series of attacks that has brought violence in Iraq to its highest level in five years. The deadliest attack took place in Baiji, 112 miles north of #Baghdad, where four bombers wearing explosive belts took over a police station after detonating a parked car bomb outside the building, police sources said. read more
Dozens die in Baghdad as wave of attacks hit #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/dozens-die-baghdad-wave-attacks-hit-iraq
An Iraqi man clean debris from a shop after a car bomb attack in the Karrada neighborhood in central Baghdad on November 20, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)
A wave of attacks, most of them car bombs, rocked Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 28 people in the latest bout of bloodshed to hit Iraq. The violence, which also wounded more than 70 people, comes amid a protracted surge in bloodletting just months ahead of general elections that has forced Iraqi (...)
LIBAN. 15 morts dans un double attentat à Beyrouth
▻http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/monde/20131119.OBS5939/liban-attentat-pres-de-l-ambassade-d-iran-a-beyrouth.html
Deux explosions aux abords de l’ambassade d’Iran située dans le sud de Beyrouth ont causé la mort d’au moins 15 personnes mardi 19 novembre. Les témoins parlent d’un attentat à la voiture piégé. Une journaliste présente dans la capitale libanaise évoque des scènes de dévastation après l’attentat, le feu ayant gagné un immeuble voisin.
Twin Beirut bombing kills at least 10 | Al Akhbar English
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/twin-bombing-kills-several-beiruts-southern-suburbs
The explosions comes about three months after a series of car bombs targeted residential neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut’s, widely blamed of Salafi extremist with ties to Syria’s al-Qaeda-linked rebels.
The most deadly of them killed 27 in Dahiye’s Roueiss neighborhood on August 15.
A week later nearly 50 people were killed when two car bombs exploded outside mosques in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli on August 23.
Hundreds of Lebanese security forces have been manning dozens of checkpoints at the entrances of, and inside, Dahiyeh since the summer attacks in a bid to fend off future attacks.
Bir Hassan is located just outside Dahiyeh.
Updated 11:50 am: Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the Iranian embassy in Beirut’s southern suburbs Tuesday morning, killing at least 23 people and wounding over 100, private television and state news reported.
Al Mayadeen TV said that security cameras show the first suicide bomber charged the embassy on a motorcycle and blew himself up to clear the way for a second bomber, who detonated a car packed with explosives.
Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon Ghazanfar Roknabadi told the Beirut-based station that no one was killed inside the embassy, located in the densely populated neighborhood of Bir Hassan, and that all the victims appeared to be civilians.
Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil put the casualty figures at 23 dead and 146 injured.
▻http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/19/us-lebanon-blast-idUSBRE9AI08G20131119
In a Twitter post, Sheikh Sirajeddine Zuraiqat, the religious guide of the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, said the group had carried out the attack. “It was a double martyrdom operation by two of the Sunni heroes of Lebanon,” he wrote.
Lebanese army defuses 50-kilogram car bomb in Beirut suburb
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanese-army-defuses-50-kilogram-car-bomb-beirut-suburb
The Lebanese army successfully defused a 50-kilogram bomb discovered Monday in a southern Beirut suburb, a military official said on Tuesday. A Jeep Grand Cherokee packed with explosives was discovered in the Maamoura neighborhood of #Dahiyeh, which has been swarming with security forces since two car bombs exploded in July and August. The July 9 attack on the Dahiyeh neighborhood of Bir al-Abed injured 53 people. On August 15, a massive explosion killed 27 people in the nearby Roueiss (...)
At least 37 killed in #Baghdad #car_bombings
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/least-37-killed-baghdad-car-bombings
A destroyed vehicle is removed following a car bomb in a parking lot in Baghdad on September 30, 2013. (Photo: AFP - Sabah Arar)
Eleven car bombs mainly targeting busy areas around Baghdad killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 120 on Monday, security and medical officials said. The bombs hit nine different areas. The deadliest attacks hit Kadhimiyah, north Baghdad, where two car bombs killed at least seven people and wounded at least 19. The blasts came a (...)
Scores killed in spate of attacks in southern #Yemen
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/scores-killed-spate-attacks-southern-yemen
Suspected Al-Qaeda militants killed at least 56 policemen and soldiers in three simultaneous attacks in southern Yemen on Friday, military sources and local civilian officials said. Around 38 people were killed when two car bombs exploded at a military camp in al-Nashama in Shabwa Province, the source said. Gunmen also killed around 10 soldiers at a military headquarters in the town of Mayfaa. Officials believe members of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) were behind the bomb attack, (...)
At least 26 killed in attacks across #Iraq
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/least-26-killed-attacks-across-iraq
Iraqis inspect a burnt-out car at the site of a car bomb attack that exploded the previous day in a commercial street of Baghdad’s eastern neighborhood of Mashtal on 16 September 2013. (Photo: AFP - Ahmad al-Rubaye)
Attacks in Iraq killed at least 26 people on Tuesday, including 18 civilians who died when seven car bombs exploded in the capital, security and medical officials said. The attacks were the latest in a surge of unrest that has left more than 4,200 (...)
The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب: The deliberate distortion of the words of Hasan Nasrallah by Western and Arab (oil and gas) English-language media
▻http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-deliberate-distortion-of-words-of.html
Here is what Nasrallah said word-for-word (my translation) :
" There will come someone who says that Sunnis were the ones who shelled you in the suburbs, and that Sunnis were the ones who planted bombs on the road for you, and that Sunnis were the ones who sent car bombs to the southern suburbs, and that they were the ones who perpetrated the massacre yesterday...Anyone who uses this logic is an Israeli, and is a partner in the killer in achieving the goal of killing and massacre. I on my own responsibility state that those [killers] are not Sunnis. Those have no religion and no homeland and no kinsfolk. Those are not Syrians or Palestinians or Arabs and are not Muslims and are not Sunnis. Those are killers, from the thought of killers, and they have killed more Sunnis than Shi
ites and Christians. And if you want me to show you the statistics and numbers...they have killed more Sunni clerics than they have killed Shiite clerics, and in numbers ".سوف يأتي من يقول لكم إن السنّة هم من قصفوا عليكم الصواريخ في الضاحية، والسنّة هم الذين وضعوا لكم العبوات على الطريق، والسنّة هم الذين أرسلوا السيارات المفخخة إلى الضاحية، وهم الذين ارتكبوا المجزرة بالأمس »، مشدداً على أن « كل من يتكلم بهذا المنطق هو إسرائيلي، وهو شريك للقاتل في تحقيق أهداف القتل والمجزرة، وأنا على مسؤوليتي أقول لكم، هؤلاء ليسوا سنة، هؤلاء لا دين لهم ولا مذهب لهم ولا وطن لهم ولا قوم لهم، هؤلاء ليسوا سوريين ولا فلسطينيين ولا عرباً ولا مسلمين ولا سنّة، هؤلاء قتلة، من فكر القتلة، وهؤلاء قتلوا من السنّة أكثر مما قتلوا من الشيعة ومن المسيحيين، واذا اردتم أبيّن لكم إحصائيات وأرقاما، قتلوا من علماء السنة أكثر مما قتلوا من علماء الشيعة، بالأرقام ».
PS So someone in the BBC and Aljazeera and other Western media owe us an explanation : how this passage became in their rendering : "Nasrallah blames Sunnis for the car bomb" ???
