Veteran of dirty wars wins lead US spy role

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,1417267,00.html

Written off by many after his role in Central America, John Negroponte's revived career hits a new high

Duncan Campbell
Friday February 18, 2005
The Guardian

John Negroponte's nomination by President Bush yesterday to be his chief of intelligence represents the pinnacle of rehabilitation for a man who, for many people, will always be associated with US involvement in the "dirty wars" in Central America in the 1980s. snip

To his detractors, he is tainted by his time between 1981 and 1985 in Honduras, a country that was being used as a launchpad for the illegal US-backed war waged by the contras against the leftist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. The Honduran military was accused of taking part in torture and extra-judicial killings. snip

The Baltimore Sun re-investigated the US actions there in 1995. One former Honduran congressman, Efrain Diaz, told the paper that the attitude of Mr Negroponte and other US officials at the time was "one of tolerance and silence".

"They needed Honduras to loan its territory more than they were concerned about innocent people being killed."

For their cooperation with the US, the Honduran government had its military aid increased from $4m to $77m a year. Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch has accused Mr Negroponte of "looking the other way when serious atrocities were committed".

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[seemunkee]

1. Torture and death of innocents means nothing to these people

How much more can we take?

[bpilgrim]

5. kick

peace

[struggle4progress]

11. kick

[htuttle]

2. I'd like to dedicate this one to John Negroponte for his work in Guatemala

...and Iraq, and soon to be here in the U.S.A:

If I had a Rocket Launcher

Here comes the helicopter -- second time today
Everybody scatters and hopes it goes away
How many kids they've murdered only God can say
If I had a rocket launcher...I'd make somebody pay

I don't believe in guarded borders and I don't believe in hate
I don't believe in generals or their stinking torture states
And when I talk with the survivors of things too sickening to relate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would retaliate

On the Rio Lacantun, one hundred thousand wait
To fall down from starvation -- or some less humane fate
Cry for guatemala, with a corpse in every gate
If I had a rocket launcher...I would not hesitate

I want to raise every voice -- at least I've got to try
Every time I think about it water rises to my eyes.
Situation desperate, echoes of the victims cry
If I had a rocket launcher...Some son of a bitch would die
-- Bruce Cockburn, "If I had a Rocket Launcher", 1983

[driver8]

4. Very appropriate -- I love that song.

Bruce Cockburn writes some very powerful lyrics -- that whole album is filled with songs critical of the government.

[bpilgrim]

3. we are FUCKED!

the media and our own LEADERS are gonna pretend that this is perfectly legitimate and normal instead of being OUTRAGED at this FASCIST gov. being constructed in broad daylight, with all the legitimacy of a democratically elected gov. ALL in OUR name :argh:

elliot abrahms
otto riech
gono the torturer
and now this!!!

thank GORE he 'invented' the INTERNETs so we can spread the news far and wide and HOPEFULLY stop these evil bastards before they start putting us all in camps.


http://images.globalfreepress.com


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[bpilgrim]

6. what happened to the confirmation process?

:shrug:

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[bpilgrim]

9. he will still have to go through one, right?

suprised this thread is so empty

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[NNN0LHI]

7. DEATH SQUADS

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N17308594.htm

<snip>Hundreds of suspected leftists were murdered or were never seen again after being picked up by the Honduran army and allied paramilitary groups. Many were killed by the army's notorious 3-16 Battalion, which operated as a death squad.

Although the number of death squad victims in Honduras was much lower than in El Salvador and Guatemala, Negroponte came under fire for denying any knowledge of the repression.

"He was very well informed and he was in charge of an embassy that had great importance and influence in Honduras. He knew what was going on and, although he had the information, he did not prevent it happening," said Leo Valladares, a former head of the Honduran government's human rights commission.

In a 1993 report, Valladares accused former governments of a dirty war against opponents and said U.S. and Argentine military advisors took part in the Honduran campaign.

Negroponte's record in Central America at one point threatened to derail his bid to become U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 2001. Senate confirmation hearings were delayed for months but he was then quickly approved to the post after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on Washington and New York.

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[bpilgrim]

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[Octafish]

10. MURDERER Negroponte is a Texas-sized turd of BFEE shit!

It's like clockwork: Everywhere the scuzzbucket goes, dead people follow, mostly innocent women and children.

Murdocracy in America, International Thuggery

excerpted from the book

Robbing Us Blind

The Return of the Bush Gang and the Mugging of America

by Steve Brouwer

Common Courage Press, 2004, paper

EXCERPT...

Only one nation has ever been found guilty of terrorism by the International Court of Justice the United States in 1986 Some of the men who ran this secret terror operation- North, Abrams, and Poindexter-were convicted of Iying to Congress about their activities.

Two of the above were invited to rejoin the rejuvenated Bush Gang in Washington in 2001, along with two other men-Negroponte and Reich-who helped them plan their past terroristic activities. The third criminal, Oliver North, was too busy with his Fox TV show, "War Stories," to rejoin the others.

In 1986, the Reagan administration disregarded international law and ignored the order from the International Court of Justice, part of the World Court in The Hague, Netherlands, to desist from its hostile activities. The U.S. continued sponsoring, training, and supplying arms to the Contras, the army it had created to carry out illegal attacks on the nation of Nicaragua Several years earlier the Nicaraguan people had launched a left-leaning, democratic revolution and freed themselves from the long, brutal, dictatorship of the Somoza family. The United States government had supported the Somozas for decades, just as it had backed a string of right-wing dictatorships throughout Central America, the Caribbean, and Latin America.

The Reagan administration also disregarded the laws of the United States of America, in particular those that the U.S. Congress had passed earlier in the 1980s forbidding U.S. assistance to the Contra forces. Nicaragua, a poor nation with only three million people, was badly hurt by the repeated terrorist acts-its main harbor was mined to discourage civilian shipping, its medical personnel were massacred at rural clinics, and its citizens were tortured and murdered by the U.S. sponsored terrorists.

CONTINUED...

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Bush_Gang/Murdocracy_RUB.html

PS: FUCK YOU, BUSH!