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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 08:43 AM
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France considers Pinochet trial
BBC News snip


Gen Pinochet has said he had no knowledge of the killings

French prosecutors have called for former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet to be tried over the disappearance of four French citizens in the 1970s.

Along with 20 other former military officers, he is suspected of having ordered their arrest and detention.

General Pinochet, 88, is currently under house arrest in Chile.

French investigating magistrate Sophie Clement is expected to decide within six weeks whether he and the others should be tried in absentia.

More:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3946863.stm
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 09:05 AM
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1. This is indeed good news to wake up too. Then after France
is through with Pinochet, I'd like to Henry A. Kissinger be tried at The Hague. The man that gave Pinochet the office for whole sale death.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 09:11 AM
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2. Gets my vote. Add Thatcher and Poppy.
And JP2.
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 09:46 AM
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3. Glad to see France becoming involved! The more the merrier, right?
I'm sure we can believe Mr. "Not a blade of grass grows in Chile without my permission" Pinochet was so unaware there were multiple torture centers, as well as three vessels in the ocean simultaneously torturing and often murdering "leftists." Don't forget the infamous "Caravan of Death," going from town to town by helicopter, landing to torture and murder imagined enemies of the state.

Yeah, that sounds reasonable. It was probably the low-ranking officers. Good help is so hard to find, is it not?

Why is it a lot of articles always grossly underestimate the number of victems who have joined the choir eternal?

Victims of a brutal regime
• Inside the infamous torture centres, victims were subjected to violent and continuous beatings, often to the point of death, before doctors revived them to prolong their suffering
• Prisoners were tied up and "walled in" tiny cubicles where they were denied food, water and clothing; others were tied to a metal rack known as "the grill" where they were subjected to electric shocks to all parts of the body, including their genitals and their mouths

• Many were subjected to systematic rape and sodomy

• Age and gender was no defence; pregnant women and young children were also killed

• Pinochet was also involved in Operation Condor, a South America-wide operation to kidnap and kill dissidents opposed to the continent's rightwing military regimes
(snip)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pinochet/Story/0,11993,190571,00.html



http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB110/
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Judi Lynn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 09:56 AM
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4. He never sent us a "thank you" note for our assistance, did he?
Maybe there's still time for Kissinger to remind him.
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emad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-23-04 10:06 AM
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5. Until the truth about the notorious P2 Lodge is made public it is
Edited on Sat Oct-23-04 10:28 AM by emad aisat sana
hard not to point the finger at Pinochet and keep up the pressure on his record of atrocities.

That he is a major player in mass scale corruption, murder, terror and abuse is unquestionable.

His true identity, however, will have to be placed into the public domain before the scale, length and depth of criminality can be properly understood.

The first step is to unlock the UK's Official Secrets Act which gags a multitude of coverups, cockups and deceptions that resulted in the farce of Pinochet's meteoric rise to power. Especially the parallel State Secrets that mirror those of the US. This especially relates to events following the bombing of Buckingham Palace in 1940 and the House of Windsor itself.

Smashing down that wall of silence would mean the end of protecting those who colluded together to bankroll, mastermind and execute World War I and II. And those who paid the Russian Mafia to do their dirty work during the cold war and since - especially about the time of the end of the first Gulf War, the fall of "President George H Bush" and the choices made by the US judiciary in letting sleeping dogs lie for a dozen years or so.

The lie that gave credence and power to Pinochet has its roots in the UK.
And this is where you have to start unravelling that lie:

AND

Giovanni Pacelli AKA Pope Pius XII
AND

UK Premier Stanley Baldwin
AND

Archbishop Cosmo Lang (right of picture)
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