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Irak en " Onze man in Washington "...
24.02.2003 13:42

HOLLAND, our ambassador & 'ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE United Nations DEBATE AND VOTE CONC. THE WAR ON IRAQ

THIS INFORMATION IS ESPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE VISIT OF UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN POWELL TO CHINA AND SOUTH KOREA :

OPEN LETTER, SEND TO THE UNITED NATIONS,
the U.S. + other major media, and Govts.

ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE UN DEBATE AND VOTE CONC. THE WAR ON IRAQ

DEAR SIR / MADAM,

after forty years abroad in "Foreign Service" - as a correspondent for many
major media in the world, including the BBC and CBS - may I ask for some
minutes of your time ? To see what my experience+analysis tells concerning
the US and Iraq ? I have lived and worked ten years in that region too,
accredited in Tunis, and some of you may even remember me.

Every point below has a footnote where you can check the full story yourself.

1) How can YOU trust the US-Govt. if we do not get full information like in this case :

"THE United States edited out more than 8000 crucial pages of Iraq's
11,800-page dossier on weapons, before passing on a sanitised version to the
10 non-permanent members of the United Nations security council.

The full extent of Washington's complete control over who sees what in the
crucial Iraqi dossier, calls into question the allegations made by US Secretary
of State Colin Powell : that 'omissions' in the document constituted a
'material breach' of the latest UN resolution on Iraq."
Without real evidence !

Full story :  http://www.sundayherald.com/print30195

2) "A War Crime or an Act of War?"

The article in the New York Times by -STEPHEN C. PELLETIERE- published
January 31, 2003 and titled "A War Crime or an Act of War?", is one of the
most important pieces of information ever given by the CIA-level on this
matter. His points are clear : The US and Israel want both the oil AND the
water from that Kurdish area in Northern Iraq. NO Saddam Hussein's or
Kurdish hands on this enormously important tap : this planned Iraq war is
meant to secure oil for the US and the future watersupply to Israel.

The fact that Saddam Hussein gassed the Kurds at Halabja - one of the main
US arguments for going to war with Iraq - is according to the CIA 'NOT CORRECT' ?

Prof. S. PELLETIERE : "I am in a position to know because, as the Central
Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq
war, and as a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was
privy to much of the classified material that flowed through Washington
having to do with the Persian Gulf. In addition, I headed a 1991 Army
investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a war against the United
States; the classified version of the report went into great detail on the
Halabja affair."

New York Times/Log in :

 http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html?pagewanted
=print&position=top

3) WHY CANNOT POWELL BE TRUSTED

US Secretary of State Colin Powell has begun talks in Beijing on the crises
in Iraq and North Korea. Mr Powell is hoping to persuade a sceptical China
to back the tough US stance on disarming Iraq by force and a diplomatic
approach to ending the North Korean nuclear crisis. He is visiting China as
part of a four-day visit to Asia, in which he hopes to get support for an
already in the media lost case ! because many in S-East Asia remember
Powell as the man who helped covering up US-Army attrocities, like My Lai.

When I arrived for the first time in Vietnam during the war, on April 17th, 1971,
in the 'correspondents hotel Caravelle' the "cover-up" about the massacre at My Lai
by Colin POWELL was still talk of the town. Powell is not what the media show, and
I certainly do not trust him. "Behind Colin Powell's Legend" URL for a full story :

 http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:0Z51C4h2ZEoC:www.thirdworldtraveler.com
/Political/Collin%2520Powell_Legend.html+Gen.+Colin+L.+Powell+%22my+lai%22&h
l=nl&ie=UTF-8&client=googlet

4) Every square inch of Iraq has been filmed and photographed since 12 years !

What wonders many with some insight in U.S. satellite reconnaissance, is
the fact that SIX U.S. satellites, controlling Iraq for over 12 years, 7
days a week and 24 hrs a day, have not turned up anything which this far
could be accepted as some kind of real proof in relation to all the accusations
by president Bush, Secr. of State Powell etc. etc. Every square inch of Iraq
has been filmed and photographed hundreds - sometimes thousands - of times.
And still :"Only a tip of the iceberg" ?

Boston / full story with even techical specifications on 'how and what'
concerning those Keyhole satellites :

 http://boston.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=10888&group=webcast

5) " US threatens world peace" says Mandela.

In 1976 I was arrested and declared "Persona non Grata" in 'Apartheid's
South Africa, since I wanted to see what reality was. And today I fully
share the views by Nelson Mandela, one of the world's most respected
statesmen, who - like the Pope, Arab religious topfigures and 75 % of the
world's population - daily has condemned United States war-like
interventions in the Middle East and many other countries around the globe
as "a threat to world peace". Remember what he said ? Worldwide and amongst
others via the BBC : " US threatens world peace" says Mandela :

URL/BBC-story :  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2251067.stm

'Hara Kiri' of the United States Government.

How representatives of foreign countries and peoples have been treated by
those in power in the U.S I've seen for the past forty years. And based on experience
I'm very unhappy with what I've seen 'friends' doing to others. My verdict is clear :
This U.S. Foreign policy doctrine is not only inhuman but also the final phase in the
Hara Kiri the United States Government is committing.

Washington based Dutch ambassador to the US, Boudewijn van Eenennaam in
the Washington Post said that "he is concerned about a monopoly of power
without checks and balances. Self assertiveness and an arrogance of power
among some U.S. officials, that is a troubling thing."

While - according to the polls - seventy-five percent of the Dutch
population of 16+ million is against the US-Govt.'s planned war in Iraq, the now
infamous Dutch right-wing 'care taker'-cabinet already secretly has taken
part in the U.S. wars. The Dutch ambassador in Washington, van Eenennaam, as
quoted by the Washington Post* said : " that US State Department officials
with a "nasty undertone" contacted him to make sure the Dutch recognized
Bush's gesture." So this is the way the Dutch became "Allies" ?

It is my view, that everybody who tries to stop the present belligerent policy
of hegemony by the United States and Israel, is a fine and understanding
human being with respect for the Human Rights of fellow human beings.

HENK RUYSSENAARS*
The Netherlands


The Foreign Press Foundation has been sounding the alarm about the threat posed on a global scale to democracy, since most of the 'media' decided to abandon journalism and pour all their persuasive powers into winning a war, being globally waged over oil and the water in the Middle East.

 COPYRIGHT NOTICE - In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed by the Foreign Press Foundation under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information".
 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml

The FPF makes it a point of distinguishing between the United States government,
about which we are often sharply critical, and its people !

* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America,
(Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East. While being accredited as
N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too.
Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different
governments in East and West.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !

FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
 forpressfound@netscape.net
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
 fpf@chello.nl


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