http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=33

Kuwait's oil wells, torched during the final phase of the 1991 Gulf War, were set ablaze by fast-moving strike teams of U.S. Special Forces, not by Iraqi troops, as reported at the time, according to a U.S. Army officer who was there. Smoke from the fires blocked sunlight for weeks, creating a near environmental disaster in the Mideast. After almost a decade, this observer has decided to break his silence and divulge what he has seen on condition that his identity remain protected.

His description of how the small Gulf emirate's oil wells went up in flames matches the statements of the Iraqi government, whose top officials have long disclaimed responsibility for this incendiary sabotage operation. “We did not set the oil fields on fire,” said then-Iraqi Oil Minister Osama al-Hiti, to a SPOTLIGHT reporter in June 1992. “Why should we? Where was the profit?”

Gulf War vet admits setting oil well fires under UN command!
http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-four/
gulfwar-vet-admits-setting-oil-well-fires-under-UN-command.htm

During the past six years, the American Gulf War Veterans Association has received numerous reports from veterans stating that US forces were responsible for the setting of the oil well fires at the end of the Gulf War.

One veteran has now stepped forward and given a detailed account of how he and others in special teams, moved forward of the front, behind enemy lines ahead of US forces, set explosive and incendiary charges on the well heads, and remained hidden until after the charges were remotely detonated and US forces advanced beyond their position.

“We were mustered into the briefing tent at which point a gentleman whom I first had thought to be an American… but I was concerned because he was wearing a UN uniform and insignias, began to brief us on the operation.”

“There was concern that America, the American public, might see this conflict as an unnecessary thing, and we were asked to do this… or we were ordered to do this in order to remove any… to sway any public opinion… American public opinion to remove any doubts whatsoever that Saddam Hussein and his regime were a terrible evil that had to be dealt with.”

Stating that he was given a small number of wells to set the charges on: “I carried out my mission parameters and than I withdrew and concealed myself until such a time as the front moved past me.”

The information provided over a series of meetings with this veteran corroborates the reports from other veterans who are totally unconnected with this individual.

US set fire to the oil wells in Gulf war http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-four/transcript.htm

Did the US Military participate in starting the Oil Well Fires of Kuwait in 1991?

The following is a transcript taken from a conversation with a Gulf War veteran who claims to have taken part in such a mission.

JR: What was the branch of service that you served in.

GV: For different reasons, I’d rather not state that.

JR: Fair enough. There are a lot of people afraid of retaliation from the Gulf War. Do you understand why they feel that way.

GV: Yes I do. I learned do to what I did in the service, to live in a different world that most people have been lead to believe exists only in their worst nightmares.

JR: Now you were involved in an operation in Kuwait that really no one has heard about until this point in time. We’ve had five, four other reports of people similar to yourself that have brought this to our attention. You were chosen for a mission; and why do you think you were chosen for this mission?

GV: We’re all a product of our environment, as a young man I watched different movies and television shows, and I remember thinking how incredibly cool Rambo was and… things of that nature. There was so many media in the form of movies, and commercials television that primed me to except the idea that to win was everything.

JR: And so the military sort of capitalizes on that feeling?

GV: Oh very much so. They, they find… a lot of times before they even get you into boot camp where they can use your personality and…. your morals and… they capitalize on these things and, and steer you as it were into the training avenues where you will be most beneficial to them.

JR: Lets go to the time of this mission in Kuwait. You were, where were you when you learned about this mission?

GV: We had just gotten back into camp the day before, on a different mission, and we were actually in our quarters resting when we were told to muster out into the briefing tent, at which point a gentlemen who I originally, who I had first assumed to be American but I was concerned because he was wearing a U.N. uniform and insignias. He began to brief us on the operation. He pointed out the strategic points. And we were briefed as a group. There were probably 30 to 40 in the group. And then… we were asked to leave, and our individual commanders were given the objectives for their group. At which point our individual commanders briefed us on our individual objectives, and then we went and… we drew our gear. We were transported via armor personal carrier close to the front at which point we set out on foot, I acted alone.

JR: Why were you told that you were going to be doing this mission? What were you told was the purpose of this?

GV: There was concern that America, the American public, might see this conflict as an unnecessary thing, and we were asked to do this… or we were ordered to do this in order to remove any… to sway any public opinion… American public opinion to remove any doubts whatsoever that Saddam Hussein and his regime were a terrible evil that had to be dealt with.

JR: And what branches of the service were represented in this briefing tent?

GV: I recognized faces from the Navy Seals, Marine Force Recon, and Delta Force.

JR: Ok, now you’re on your way on your mission. You’ve been taken by armored personnel carrier, you’re dropped off to your area and what do you do then?

GV: Well then we moved through gaps in our lines to where we’re actually forward of the front… As the popular expression says “behind enemy lines”. We traveled up, well I say we, well I, I was acting alone. My mission objective was assigned to me personally. I did not have a, an operative with me. I moved forward and I… I carried out my mission parameters, and then I moved, and then I withdrew and concealed myself until such a time as the front moved past me.

JR: Ok let me back up a second. You carried out your mission, lets talk about that mission.

GV: Yes

JR: What was your mission? What were you told that you were supposed to do?

GV: To damage… I was given (number deleted) Kuwaiti oil wells to damage and to start a fire.

JR: And how did you do this?

GV: With the use of explosives and incendiaries.

JR: And how did you utilize these explosives? What were these explosives?

GV: The explosive I used was C4. It’s light weight, its easy to use, its very safe to transport. You take it and… a wellhead is nothing more than a pipe sticking out of the ground with… with valves, and it’s not like a water well where it, where you have a top that you can take off. It is completely sealed due to the environmental concerns involved with crude oil. The… depending on the sight of the well… the, the valve is any where from three to six feet off of the ground. I placed the explosive on the wellhead and the incendiaries near by so that after the… after the wellhead was damaged, that the incendiary could light the crude oil to fire.

JR: And did you light it yourself?

GV: No I actually transmitted a signal via a transmitter to a central location.

JR: Which basically told them the well had been set?

GV: The well had been set and they could detonate it at their leisure.

JR: And what did you do then?

GV: Then I removed myself from the area… I egressed from the area and concealed myself until our units had advanced forward of me.

JR: And, I don’t understand. Help me understand what you mean by that.

GV: The whole idea behind the operation was to make it as if look as if the Republican Guard, while they were retreating, had set the oil wells a fire in a panic to keep us from getting them… and to villainize them. This mission would not have been achieved if our forces saw those involved were not Republican Guard.

JR: In other words you were in fear of your own men seeing you basically?

GV: That is correct.

JR: Did you see any body else in the oil well field at the time that you were there?

GV: No I did not.

JR: So you then egressed from the area, made sure that your own men did not see you, and then the oil well fires were started?

GV: Yes

JR: Did you see them start?

GV: I actually, due to where I was concealed I could not see them, but due to the nature of … the operation you could feel the explosions and you could hear the fire.

JR: So the story that we are told, that the Republican Guard in their retreating, they started them very hastily, is not accurate?

GV: That is correct.

JR: Did you see any Republican Guard?

GV: In the entire (deleted) months that I spent in that theater of operations I did not see one individual that wore a Republican Guard uniform.

JR: Did you see any Iraqi troops that wore uniforms?

GV: I saw quite a few Iraqis troops that wore uniforms.

JR: But you saw no Republican Guards?

GV: I saw no Republican Guard Uniforms.

JR: After this period of time when you started the oil well fires, did you have any concerns that you had started these fires, or did you think it was for the best thing for this country?

GV: At the time, like I say due to the nature of my mind set, it did not bother me.

JR: That was your job and your mission and you carried it out.

GV: That is correct.

JR: Well I appreciate very much your being frank with us and open about this because there are many people that are now coming forward and saying the same thing. That there were no Republican Guard anywhere around, and that it was the American troops that actually started the oil well fires. I want to thank you very much, is there any thing you want to say in closing?

GV: I believe it’s a shame that our government is getting ready to repeat mistakes… I believe. I went over to fight what I thought was a common enemy of the world, and I watched my friends bleed and die for this cause, only for us to be stopped short of our objective, our final objective. I have no reason to believe that it will be any different this time. And I understand the necessity for the loss of life to protect our country. But loss and waste are two very different things.

JR: And why are you coming forward, right now in saying this?

GV: I feel that for us to return over there with this current administrations mind set that it would, that history would only repeat itself.

JR: Thank you very much, I do thank you, I salute you for what you are doing.

OIL WELL INFO
http://www.thepowerhour.com/postings-four/oil-well-celebrity.htm

Mr. Rockwell's website deals with the loss of many of our rights, and he better than anyone knows the truth.  Millions of others also already know we are under a De Facto government.  Mr. McCarthy's article is his opinion, which is his privilege to share. A difference of opinion always brings discussion, leads to problem solving, and hopefully resolution.  

I am not anti-government -- I am anti-corruption. Many of American who do support the war, are doing for all the right reason, and I'm sure feel in their hearts it's the right thing to do.  My opposition is not in anyway less patriotic, and certainly not in the same arena as Fonda or McCain.  Dissent is patriotic.  

This war is for all the wrong reasons.  If feel the invasion of Iraq is illegal, and the way they have proposed to do it, is Genocide.  If it was wrong for Hitler to kill 8 million Jews and others, or Stalin to kill 25 million Kulacks, then it is equally wrong for Bush to carpet bomb Iraq and kill 5 million Iraqi, 50% of whom are children.  

Who can support a illegal invasion or Genocide which is a violation of the Geneva Convention and Principles of the Nuremberg Tribunal, 1950?  Bush's hypocritical excuse to invade Iraq is to bring "Democracy" to their citizens, while taking away American Citizen's freedom and liberty (he said we had too much freedom), yet fails to secure our own borders, allowing terrorist to enter at will.  Joe, if you were such a patriot you would certainly see this.  

There is no war on Terrorism -- There is a war on Freedom!   At least 50 other countries have WMD including Cuba 90 miles off our coast, but we aren't going after them.  N. Korea is an even graver threat and has promised to pre-emptively attack us.  Not only can Iran launch a nuke to our W. Coast, they have submarines that can launch them right off our sea coast, and they will have the support of Russia and China.  

The Bush Adm. is lying if they think they can maintain wars on several fronts, which is exactly what will happen.  They just deployed 3000 troops to the Philippines.  We are still fighting a war in Afghanistan which is going nowhere, Osama has yet to be captured after thousand of Afghanistan civilians being killed who did not attack the WTC, but it was Breszenski who said we must control that area.  

The Iraqis also did not attack the WTC but it's alleged they support Al-Qaeda -- really?  why did Bush stop the investigation of Al-Qaeda -- perhaps because he didn't want to offend the Saudis (his oil buddies)  And why are we still buying oil from Iraq?   

The American people are receiving the same propaganda under the Hitler Regime to the tune of billions to high paid advertising agencies and PR companies just to convince of an attack on Iraq is necessary, paid for at tax payer expense. From an excerpt in my first email: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS TELL THEM THEY ARE BEING ATTACKED, and DENOUNCE THE PEACEMAKERS FOR LACK OF PATRIOTISM, and EXPOSING THE COUNTRY TO DANGER. 

It works the same in any country. -- Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering. This has already been done by the Bush Adm.  Now many Congressman are now opposing the war, as well as there is great division among our Joint Chiefs of Staff.  Many military officers have resigned in great numbers.   As Sen. Hagle said, we need to ask a lot more questions which didn't happen before Viet Nam.  

That was one of Kissinger's pipe dreams to get us involved in a war.  Now we have come to find out, there was NO Gulf of Tonkin, and we lost 78,000 of our military and allied troops, plus thousand who came home wounded physically, and with PTSS.  Many of the current vets are also in disagreement and refuse to let their sons and grandsons serve.   If you are looking for traitors, just follow your nose -- All roads lead to the White House.   

Colin Powell was caught lying to the UN in a plagiarized speech -- Blix no longer believes him or the US.  U.N. sources have told CBS News that American tips have lead to one dead end after another. Inspectors Call U.S. Tips 'Garbage' http://truthout.org/docs_02/022303A.htm   

Bush sold Nuclear Reactors to N. Korea who promised to pre-emptively strike us.  They present a much greater threat than Iraq.  But Bush is going to talks.  Why isn't he going into talks with Iraq?  What's the RUSH to war.  We have contained him for years, why plunge the American people into war and kill millions of people and starting WW3 after Russia and China jump in, or put the American people at risk for certain retaliation by Al-Qaeda cells already here, brought over by Bush Sr., and never sent out of the country.  Why the horrific cost when we can't even pay the interest on the national debt, and our economy is crashing and burning? The majority of Europeans can see through Bush's facade, and don't want war on their soil.  They have already experience the hardships of war, the devastation, the depravation.  America will soon find out too if war come to our soil, after Bush invades Iraq, because their allies will attack us.  There are so many reason to avoid a war at all cost, and should be the last resort and not the first option.   

Cheney was on board Of Company That Sold North Korea two nuclear power plants. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1563.htm

Soldiers, Lawmakers Sue Bush to Block Iraq War http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1579.htm

U.S. Deleted Iraqi-run Florida Chemical Plant from UN Weapons List 
http://www.tomflocco.com/US%20Deleted%20Iraqi%20run%20Fl%20Chem%20Plt.htm

"Bush Concealed Iraqi Chemical Weapons Plant in Florida" http://www.tomflocco.com/nerves_of_steal.htm
Shockingly, Houston’s Baker & Botts law firm -- owned by George Bush Sr.’s Secretary of State James Baker -- was mentioned in a billing statement ( for legal services rendered ) by a Florida chemical company headed by an Iraqi terrorist and bio-chemical engineer. The Iraqi -- Ihsan Barbouti -- had close ties to World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, but was also the main contractor for the Rabta chemical weapons plant in terrorist Libya.

Shockingly, Houston’s Baker & Botts law firm -- owned by George Bush Sr.’s Secretary of State James Baker -- was mentioned in a billing statement ( for legal services rendered ) by a Florida chemical company headed by an Iraqi terrorist and bio-chemical engineer. The Iraqi -- Ihsan Barbouti -- had close ties to World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, but was also the main contractor for the Rabta chemical weapons plant in terrorist Libya.

Baker’s law firm was linked to the Iraqi terrorist’s Boca Raton chemical company via multiple contracts for secret formulas and enzymes.  But Baker & Botts was also mentioned with Joint Venture Agreements connected to Barbouti’s attorney during the period when illegal nerve gas precursors were shipped by the Boca Raton company to Iraq just months prior to the outbreak of Gulf War I hostilities.

Now there still are 250,000 faulty chem-bio suits missing, and probably will be issued to our GIs.  Bush Sr.'s Carlye Group just bought a bio-weapons lab in the UK.  There's no question, the US will use them on Saddam (they already have lots of Anthrax in Ft. Deitrich MD, and when many of our kids die, they will blame Saddam, and say, "See I told you so."

We are still allowing Arabs to immigrate, still training them to fly jets, and the INS are refusing to deport them here on expired visas.

We may not hear from the US mainstream press, but watch out for the foreign press -- they have let it all hang out.  The US continued to supply Iraq with after the Gulf War, and Saddam was Cheney's best customer (Real Player required). http://neirp.com/cheney.rm

"American companies profited from providing arms"   Can you say Brown and Root?  If not, do a Google Search :))

Halliburton, Brown & Root, etc. supplied Iraq with WMD, and even helped them calibrate the mustard gas to be used against the Iranians, according to the Riegle Report:

There is no disputing the evidence that the U.S. provided bacteria and viruses as evidenced by Senate Report 103-900, “United States Dual-Use Exports To Iraq And Their Impact On the Health of The Persian Gulf War Veterans,” dated May 25,1994, chaired by Sen. Donald Riegle (D-MI) of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee. This Senate report was available to all senators and listed among other items, Bacillus Anthracis, (anthrax) Clostridium botulinum, and West Nile Fever Virus as pathogens that were shipped to Iraq in the 1980’s with the full knowledge of the Department of Commerce and the CDC.

"U.S. SUPPLIES, CALIBRATES AND ENDORSES USE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN IRAQ" 

http://www.thepowerhour.com/american_gulf_war_veterans_assoc.htm

George H W Bush, who had been covertly arming Iraq during its war with Iran, sent word via April Glaspie that the United States would not intervene if Saddam Hussein grabbed a larger part of Kuwait.  SADDAM FELL FOR THE BAIT AND INVADED KUWAIT, THEN BUSH SR. ATTACKS SADDAM, AND STARTS GULF WAR1. 

APRIL GLASPIE TRANSCRIPT:  http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE5/april.html

A huge report verifying US complicity in WMD sent to Iraq http://www.gulfweb.org/bigdoc/report/r_1_2.html#exports

BUT NOW IT'S SHOW TIME! 

Iraq names European, U.S., Japanese suppliers to its former nuclear program 
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=4AF2F80B-B069-4A70-9BC7-0552BF544C88

Leaked Report Says German and US Firms Supplied Arms to Saddam http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.19B.ger.us.suppliers.htm

The Corporations That Supplied Iraq's Weapons Program http://www.thememoryhole.com/corp/iraq-suppliers.htm

Bush Adm. Tore 8,000 Pages Out Of Iraq WMD Report http://www.rense.com/general32/wmwd.htm
Original Source http://www.sundayherald.com/30195  

They didn't want anyone to know how many corporations actually supplied Iraq, especially us, so they tore 8,000 pages out of the Iraq's declaration of 11,800 pages.  At first they said it was incomplete, and now appears it's even more incomplete by their editing.  What else are they hiding -- their complicity?  That's why Bush and Cheney were so adamant about private investigations into 9-11, it would have never stood up to public scrutiny, unless it's by a criminal like Kissinger who lied to Congress and would cover it up.  

Just how is ol' Ari going to answer these questions -- he won't, and the people have the right to know about the corruption by those at the top who got us into Gulf War 1 and now Gulf War 2.  Bush Jr. just wants to finish what his father didn't, after bombing them for 11 years. Shortly after 9-11, former Sen. Gary Hart (CFR) said, "Now President Bush can use this disaster to his advantage and finish what his father didn't -- a New World Order." (listen to audio below).

War is very PROFITABLE for Bush Sr.'s Carlyle Group and they have received 56% of the $38 billion Pentagon Budget.  The WTC followed by the subsequent invasion of Afghanistan, and now the imminent invasion of Iraq will certainly boost their bottom line, and keep them buying up companies.   There's no conflict of interest here or is there?

Powerful U.S. Firm Buys Stake in British Defense Research Group http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA20B57D9D.html

Bush's Carlyle Group also bought a UK bio-weapons lab, and now birds carry "Ebola" just like they carried WNV -- can anyone connect the dots?  Remember the CFR said in their latest report: "Many Americans must be culled."

Bush Sr.'s Carlyle group just bought CFX in a stock transfer 6 days after the appointment of John Snow their former CEO to Secretary of the Treasury -- no conflict of interest here.  I guess the containers and rail will be important to haul off the resisters of the NWO to the Gulags?

A mother just heard from a her son in Qatar, and the coalition of troops are not going to support the invasion of Iraq.  So, we may soon be experiencing NBC staged acts of terrorism here and abroad, just to convince the US and her allies to support the invasion i.e. WTC (using CIA Al-Qaeda assets many brought here by our govt. and funded by the CIA email below), as a pretext of war analogous to Pearl Harbor, for the invasion of Afghanistan, and now Iraq, escalating to WW3. 

The same cast of character that finance Hitler in WW2, are promoting WW3, and now supported by their sons and grandson.  Wealth does not disappear, it just changes hands.  It's corruption at the highest levels of Government and in the private sector known as the Petrol-Chemical-Pharmaceutical-Industrial complexes NWO gang controlled by the CFR.  They have everything to gain, and we the people have everything to lose.  As they say on the Internet, It's all about Oil stupid!!!  It's only the multi-national Corporations who will profit -- follow the money.  They don't even have enough allegiance to America to keep the jobs here.  The Clean up is even going to be done by a partner Halliburton Company.  It's those that have so much to gain from a war that are supporting it. 

It gets more scary.  Now Clinton may be the next head of the UN, possibly double teaming with Bush.

Definition: "The New World Order is a world that has a super-national authority to regulate world commerce and industry; an international organization that would control the production and consumption of oil; an international currency that would replace the dollar; a World Development Fund that would make funds available to free and communist nations alike; and an international police force to enforce the edicts of the New World Order." -- Willy Brandt, Former West German Chancellor and former chairman of the Fifth Socialist International, Chairman of the Brandt Commission in the late 1980's

The UN's boy, Maurice Strong statement below is coming to fruition.  This is exactly what is happening as we enter WW3 by Bush and his war cabinet.  The old world order must first come down before the new world order comes on the scene.  America is being destroyed from within:

"Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse?  Isn’t it our responsibility to bring it about?" -- Maurice Strong, Head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

"I challenge the illusion that the UN is an instrument of peace . . . It could not be less of a cruel hoax if it had been organized in hell for the sole purpose of aiding and abetting the destruction of the United States." - J.B. Matthews, former chief investigator for the House Committee on Un-American Activities

"It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful." -- Maurice Strong, Co-chairman, UN Commission on Global Governance Analysis. "Fundamental, Bible-believing people do not have the right to indoctrinate their children in their religious beliefs because we, the state, are preparing them for the year 2000, when America will be part of a one-world global society and their children will not fit in." Nebraska State Senator, Peter Hoagland on radio in 1983.

Rockefeller said, "We are on the verge of a NWO, all we need is the right situation."

"No one will enter the New World Order unless he or she will make a pledge to worship Lucifer. No one will enter the New Age unless he will take a LUCIFERIAN Initiation." (David Spangler, Director of Planetary Initiative, United Nations)

"The world can therefore seize the opportunity [Persian Gulf crisis] to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order where diverse nations are drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind." – President George H. W. Bush, Sr. - 1991

Why should our boys/girls fight and die for Bush and his cohorts to bring about the NWO?    I support our military and who are so proudly serving for all the right reasons, but not the Dim Wit who are sending them right into harms way.  None of the people opposed to the war have said anything good about Saddam -- he's not! -- and I am certainly not an apologist for him.  But the majority opposed to the war, are doing it for humanitarian reasons, including the National Council of Churches and even the Pope who is asking people to fast.  My greatest fear is it will bring on WW3, and the destruction of many countries, and civilization as we know it, when it's all so preventable -- the evidence speaks for itself.

"To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism." -- G. Edward Griffin

"The Greatest Sedition is Silence!"

I don't know how old you were in '91 or how much attention you were paying at the time but if you want to know what our government is capable of doing search for "Highway of Death" and "surrendering" and see if you still believe it's just "disinformation".

UManitoba.ca
The University of Manitoba - The Manitoban - February 5, 2003

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Consider then the Los Angeles Times report January 18, 1991 that the U.S. opened fire on Iraqi soldiers surrendering beneath a blanket of white flags.
Another example is the “Highway of Death.” On March 2, 1991, Iraq announced over public radio that it was withdrawing from Kuwait. The surrendering soldiers went down the Basra road to Southern Iraq. Above them, the U.S. bombed both ends of the highway, ensuring that there would be no escape from what was to follow. Along the seven-mile stretch, the U.S. then killed thousands. On some planes, the PA system bleated out Rossini’s William Tell Overture (the Lone Ranger theme). The enthusiastic and brainwashed pilots in the cockpits were reported to have exclaimed the following: “We toasted him”; “We hit the jackpot”; “We really waxed them”; “Say hello to Allah”; “A turkey shoot”; “Shooting fish in a barrel”; “Basically just sitting ducks.” The victims weren’t just surrendering Iraqi soldiers, but also Palestinian, Sudanese, and Egyptian foreign workers. These U.S. atrocities ought to equally demand “action by the international community.”
As mentioned, initial bombing left 200,000 dead. UNICEF estimates that well over half a million Iraqis have perished since. UNICEF goes on to report that 5,000 children under the age of five die per month as a direct result of the U.S.-/U.K.-led sanctions.

Scoop.co.nz
Scoop: Lessons in Justice: Bush’s European Nightmare

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Much of the evidence centred on the "Highway of Death," a name the press gave to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq.

There, United States aircraft crushed convoys by destroying vehicles at the front and rear of the convoy line, blocking the road. Then, for hours, the United States began bombing all the vehicles and occupants that were stationary in the resulting traffic jams.

In 1992, Clark wrote that more than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the 60 miles of highway.

“The clear rapid incineration of the human beings suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incendiary bombs,” he said.

“These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawal from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who ‘are out of combat.’ There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending siege of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the ‘highway of death.’ The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indiscriminate and excessive use of force,” Ramsey Clark wrote. For more see… http://www.deoxy.org/wc/warcrime.htm See also… the Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, report on the War Crimes Complaint.
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