Joseph Kamugisha
This internationally very crucial ruling that all peace loving people have
been waiting for, has been made today on 14th December 2004. I am glad to
post it to you to read it, for I do not think that there are enough
stations to reach it tonight, although it is a very important international
ruling.
Enjoy the notes sir.
EM
On the 49th
Associated Press
PARIS (AP) - A European court issued a landmark ruling Thursday that
condemned the CIA's "extraordinary renditions" programs and bolstered those
who say they were illegally kidnapped and tortured as part of an overzealous
war on terrorism.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that a German car salesman was an
innocent victim of torture and abuse, in a long-awaited victory for a man
who had failed for years to get courts in the U.S. and Europe to acknowledge
what happened to him.
Khaled El-Masri says he was kidnapped from Macedonia in 2003, mistaken for a
terrorism suspect, then held for four months and brutally interrogated at an
Afghan prison known as the "Salt Pit" run by the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency. He says that once U.S. authorities realized he was not a threat,
they illegally sent him to Albania and left him on a mountainside.
The European court, based in Strasbourg, France, ruled that El-Masri's
account was "established beyond reasonable doubt" and that Macedonia "had
been responsible for his torture and ill-treatment both in the country
itself and after his transfer to the U.S. authorities in the context of an
extra-judicial rendition."
It said the government of Macedonia violated El-Masri's rights repeatedly
and ordered it to pay (EURO)60,000 ($78,500) in damages. Macedonia's Justice
Ministry said it would enforce the court ruling and pay El-Masri the
damages.
U.S. officials closed internal investigations into the El-Masri case two
years ago, and the administration of President Barack Obama has distanced
itself from some counterterrorism activities conducted under former
President George W. Bush.
But several other legal cases are pending from Britain to Hong Kong
involving people who say they were illegally detained in the CIA program.
Its critics hope that Thursday's ruling will lead to court victories for
other rendition victims and prevent future abuses.
The case focused on Macedonia's role in a single instance of wrongful
capture. But it drew broader attention because of how sensitive the CIA
extraordinary renditions were for Europe, at a time when the continent lived
in fear of terrorist attacks but was divided over the Bush administration's
methods of rooting out terrorism.
Those methods involved abducting and interrogating suspects without court
sanction in the years following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. A
2007 Council of Europe probe accused 14 European governments of permitting
the CIA to run detention centers or carry out rendition flights between 2002
and 2005.
The CIA declined to comment on Thursday's ruling.
El-Masri's lawyer, Manfred Gnjidic, said he hoped the ruling would inspire
El-Masri to resume contact with his lawyers and family, which he broke off
after he was sentenced to prison in 2010 for assaulting the mayor of the
German town of Neu-Ulm. The Lebanese-born El-Masri, who is scheduled for
release from a Bavarian prison next year, is a "broken" man after
unsuccessfully seeking justice in U.S., German and Macedonian courts,
Gnjidic told The Associated Press.
"He lost his confidence in the system of rights that the democratic world
celebrates," Gnjidic said. "I hope this will give him a little bit more
confidence again that even a little person who has come into a crime of
great nations has the chance to have his rights."
Macedonian authorities had argued that El-Masri was detained on suspicion of
traveling with false documents, then traveled on his own to neighboring
Kosovo an argument the court called "utterly untenable."
The court based its 92-page ruling not only on El-Masri's version of events
but also on testimony from former Macedonian officials, results of a German
investigation, and U.S. diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks.
The court said El-Masri was severely beaten, sodomized, shackled and hooded
"at the hands of the CIA rendition team" in the presence of Macedonian
authorities. It described the measures as "invasive and potentially debasing
... used with premeditation, the aim being to cause Mr. El-Masri severe pain
or suffering in order to obtain information." And that was only the first
stage in El-Masri's months-long ordeal.
Jim Goldston, executive director of the Open Society Institute and a lawyer
for El-Masri, said the ruling "serves as a wake-up call to the U.S.
government and judiciary to re-examine how the CIA has treated rendition
victims. ... and offers an opportunity to re-examine the (U.S.) position of
looking forward instead of backward."
Goldston said that even if the ruling has no impact in the United States,
courts in other countries are likely to take it into account. He expressed
hope that it will encourage "victims who have been denied redress or have
simply not come forward."
American lawyer Marc Zaid, who has defended national security
whistleblowers, said the ruling could "impact how we do business with the
world." He said victims are pinning hopes on European courts "because there
is no remedy available in the U.S. system."
A U.N. special rapporteur on human rights, the American Civil Liberties
Union, the International Committee of Jurists and Amnesty International were
among others hailing the ruling as a long-awaited breakthrough.
The court's rulings are binding on the 47 member-states of the Council of
Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog.
The decision is the second blow for the CIA program in recent months. In
September, Italy's highest criminal court upheld the convictions of 23
Americans in the abduction of an Egyptian terror suspect from a Milan
street, paving the way to possible extradition requests for CIA operatives
by Italian authorities.
Also Thursday, lawyers for a former Libyan dissident and his family said
they have accepted 2.2 million pounds ($3.5 million) from the British
government to settle a claim that the U.K. approved their rendition to face
imprisonment by Moammar Gadhafi's regime. It is the latest in a series of
costly payouts resulting from Britain's involvement in the U.S.-led war on
terrorism.
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David Rising in Berlin, Konstantin Testorides in Skopje, Macedonia, and
Kimberly Dozier in Washington, contributed to this report.
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 9:56 PM
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Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
Kalibulimba: The Very last paragraph of your trash says it all, about a
mentally retarded idiot. Talk about "cheap.." cheap medicines Especially
expired drugs bought from street hawkers, can be terribly devastating.
Please, check your drug containers for expiration dates and when you are
done, make sure, you do trash them. You may need them in the near future.
Kamugisha
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Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:30:40 -0500
Joseph Kamugisha
Most of North American population die of Cancer, mainly and that being the
operative term here being cancer. Every single family I have visited in this
intercontinental USA has a relative lost to cancer. Why dont you call for
an abolition of smoking? This is a product produced legally when it simply
has no simple official use for fun but to kill people. 27 are dead by gun is
that a big deal compared with massive hospitals and hospitals with dying out
of them as a drive through for they smoked? Close the factories of
cigarettes man. A man I think yesterday died in UK when dancing, should we
shut dancing down too?
Man I hate cheap arguments with cheap solutions created by cheap heads
installed in cheap bodies. Geez !!!!!!!!!!
EM
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[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joseph Kamugisha
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2012 5:41 PM
To: UG @ Heart
Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
Edward:
There must be a better system of controlling easy access to guns, security
on campuses must be tightened, if possible close to Airport entry. Children
are the future of any nation on earth. The greatest of all nations being the
US of A. If this greatest nation cannot protect it's children, how will it's
greatness survive when almost each year, children are murdered in cold blood
by the same method, using the same loopholes, using easily accessible guns
without any justifiable reason?
Kamugisha
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:25:07 -0800
From: [email protected]
Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
To: [email protected]
Joseph:
>From what I've read so far, this gunman wanted to kill his own mother, who
was a teacher at the school. And he did that; she was the first victim.
So, being a son of a teacher there, likely he had easier access to the
school than others would, under any normal circumstance.
However, he also was dressed in bullet-proof clothings; so, may be if there
was a guard posted at the school entrance, the guard might have considered
the killer suspicious and stopped. Often, after these tragedies, there are
lame attempts at beefing up security here and there.
But for a brief period of time. So, the cycle of violence continues. That,
unfortunately, is the sad commentary of life in the US.
Pojim
--- On Fri, 12/14/12, Joseph Kamugisha <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Joseph Kamugisha <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
To: "UG @ Heart" <[email protected]>
Date: Friday, December 14, 2012, 2:11 PM
It is another very sad day for the country, the victimized families and all
peace loving people. Our heartfelt condolences to all the bereaved families
and our prayers for the injured
victims for quick recovery.
I just hope and continue to pray that one day, the legislators and State
Governors, will find it necessary to enforce stricter laws that would deter
such careless and heartless individuals from entering public schools and
take precious lives at ease.
This not the first second or third time this kind of tragedy is happening.
How many more tragedies do we need to witness before serious measures could
be taken? If our Airports are more safer than they were since September 11th
2001, why is it so difficult to curb gun violence in our schools? It is a a
very sad day, it is a very shameful experience !
Kamugisha
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Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 18:38:35 +0000
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Subject: SV: {UAH} 27 dead in US primary school shooting
To: [email protected]
Too sorrowful though not surprising. Just heard it over the news here.
Extensive covrage going on.
Gun lobbyists in the USA need to check direction.
May their souls rest
Noc'l
WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US
.nocla gaumoy.
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Datum: fredag 14 december 2012 19:15
Folks;
This is developing story.
http://news.yahoo.com/official-27-dead-conn-school-shooting-175512619.html
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