USA: Bush administration on trial for crimes against humankind

Well, they may be: it depends on the guts of the tribunal. From Global Research:

Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a complaint in March 2013 in San Francisco federal court alleging that the planning and waging of the war constituted a “crime of aggression” against Iraq, a legal theory that was used by the Nuremberg Tribunal to convict Nazi war criminals after World War II.

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In her lawsuit, Saleh alleges that:

– Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz began planning the Iraq War in 1998 through their involvement with the “Project for the New American Century,” a Washington DC non-profit that advocated for the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

– Once they came to power, Saleh alleges that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz convinced other Bush officials to invade Iraq by using 9/11 as an excuse to mislead and scare the American public into supporting a war.

– Finally, she claims that the United States failed to obtain United Nations approval prior to the invasion, rendering the invasion illegal and an act of impermissible aggression.

The US Government has asked for immunity for the accused (George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz) on the grounds that the war falls within the legal scope of their jobs.

If so, it seems formally critical to prove that they had planned the war long before being appointed as such public officers.

Of course, We The People know that they are guilty, no matter what tribunals may say.

Morocco & Spain pedophile pardon scandal "closed": pardon revoked and Galván arrested

Closed? We'll see. But it seems that the scandal was just too big for the power structures to manage. So yesterday, in an unprecedented decision Mohamed VI revoked the pardon to the pedophile under the (probably false) identity of Daniel Galván Viña. He did so in TV in order to calm down the mass protests that his decision had caused. 

However the child rapist and probable former spy was already in Spanish territory (questions arise about how his passport was issued so quickly). According to some last news, he has been arrested.

But many questions remain. As I reported recently, it seems that both Spanish and Moroccan secret services were directly involved in getting Galván's royal pardon. Even Galván's true identity is not known: a story speculates, on his own declarations, that he could be Iraqi but his fluency in the Moroccan dialect of Arabic (as well as other languages) make every scenario possible. He could even be Moroccan after all. 

Whatever the case, what seems clear is that he is an important former spy or similar, sufficiently connected and protected to get a new identity from the Spanish military secret service (CNI) and even to have them getting him pardoned by a back door. 

There are Moroccan top-level spies involved, the whole Spanish secret service is involved since the beginning and it is very likely that higher level imperial (NATO) agencies are involved as well, probably some from Washington, especially if Iraq is in the background after all. 

Will these details ever be known? Will the spy agencies be purged on this most outrageous scandal? Will "Galván" serve his full 30 years' term or will he get away by some other back door soon? Many questions. The focus in any case has moved from Morocco to Spain.

Morocco & Spain: child rapist pardon scandal has a spy story behind

Yesterday I reported outraged that the King of Morocco, on request of the King of Spain, pardoned a serial child rapist, known as Daniel Galván Viña. 

The protest yesterday in Rabat was brutally smashed by police (→ Al Jazeera, extremely hard to find). 

Galván's conviction to 30 years in 2011 was a landmark decision that appeared as a change of course in a state that had for decades allowed child abuse to remain unpunished in essence, behaving in fact as a pimp-state. Therefore this pardon has outraged the people. 

Blogger Maria Karim said:

This decision humiliates the victims of a sexual predator and sends out a message of impunity to the other predators, who are still free.

In the social networks there is an uproar against Justice Minister Mustapha Ramid, but the minister has blamed the King in a quite unprecedented finger-pointing act against the untouchable throne.

Even the most strongly pro-monarchy politicians are demanding an investigation. This pardon has the potency of becoming a vortex of anti-monarchy and pro-freedom feelings, serving as catalyst to bring to light the widespread sentiment of oppression for living in a totalitarian state with a mere varnish of formal democracy.

This is not the first time pedophiles get away from jail thanks to a royal pardon. Wikileaks-released cables (thanks Brad Manning) evidenced the release of two such criminals, of French nationality, in 2010. 

One of the victims of the Rapist of Kenitra has already tried to kill himself, demolished by the lack of protection of his rights. 

Iraqi officer from Basra

The pedophile and spy (El País)

But the most striking revelations come from Madrid newspaper El País[es]. This media reports that the pardon was requested by the Spanish secret service CNI and managed by its Moroccan equivalent DGED. 

It also mentions that while sometimes Galván pretended to be a former Professor of Oceanography at the University of Murcia (who does not show up anywhere), in other occasions he admitted to be an Iraqi officer who collaborated... with foreign secret services against the Baath regime. His Moroccan attorney acknowledged that he was fluent in Arabic including the Moroccan dialect.

So apparently Galván (or whichever is his real name) was born in Basra, was an officer in Saddam's military who betrayed his country and was paid with money and a new identity as Spanish professor. 

However his fluency in the Moroccan dialect makes it possible that his true origin and history is not actually known and that even the Iraq story is a smoke screen he casted in order to satisfy his attorney's curiosity without revealing his true identity. He also speaks fluently English, French and Classic Arabic.

The Moroccan Royal House remains silent. Allegedly the King of Spain only mentioned one name, an ill trucker, when he met his Moroccan colleague and the list of those pardoned has been otherwise elaborated by the Moroccan Royal House. However the name of Galván appears the last of the list, being apparently added in the last minute, a trick in which the Spanish and Moroccan secret services played, it seems, a central role. 

We cannot ignore that these two states are vassals of the USA and that it's probably Pentagon or CIA top bosses who have been pulling the strings from behind the shadows all the time. One wonders why this criminal, whose real name we do not know, is so important to them.