Fujimori on trial

National Security Archive Update, December 10, 2007

Secret DIA Intelligence Cable Ties Former President to Summary Executions

http://www.nsarchive.org

Washington D.C., December 10, 2007 - As disgraced former president Alberto Fujimori goes on trial in Lima, Peru, for human rights atrocities, the National Security Archive posted a declassified Defense Intelligence Agency cable tying him directly to the executions of unarmed rebels who had surrendered after the seizure of the residence of Japanese ambassador in 1997. "President Fujimori issued the order to 'take no prisoners,'" states the secret "roger channel" intelligence cable. "Because of this even MRTA [Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement members] who were taken alive did not survive the rescue operation."

The new DIA cable was released on the Archive Web site along with other declassified documents that shed light on human rights crimes under Fujimori's government, his close ties to his intelligence chieftain, Vladimiro Montecinos, and the two cases for which the imprisoned former president is now being prosecuted: the death squad kidnapping and disappearance of nine students and one professor at La Cantuta University in July 1992, and the massacre of a group of 15 leftists and an eight-year-old child during a neighborhood community barbeque in Barrios Altos in November 1991.

The documents were obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by analysts at the Archive's Peru Documentation Project. The project has provided declassified evidence drawn from U.S. records to Peruvian human rights advocates and officials for over a decade.

"The prosecution of Alberto Fujimori is nothing less than a historic event in the history of the human rights movement in Latin America," according to Peter Kornbluh, a senior analyst on Latin America at the Archive. "It is a major step toward truth and justice in Peru and the Western Hemisphere."

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'US says it has right to kidnap British citizens'

From The Sunday Times

2 Dec 2007

" ... AMERICA has told Britain that it can "kidnap" British citizens if they are
wanted for crimes in the United States.

A  senior  lawyer  for  the  American government has told the Court of
Appeal in London that kidnapping foreign citizens is permissible under
American law because the US Supreme Court has sanctioned it.

The admission will alarm the British business community after the case of
the so-called NatWest Three, bankers who were extradited to America on
fraud  charges.  More  than  a  dozen  other  British  executives,
including  senior  managers  at  British  Airways and BAE Systems, are
under  investigation  by  the  US  authorities and could face criminal
charges in America.

Until  now  it  was  commonly assumed that US law permitted kidnapping
only in the "extraordinary rendition" of terrorist suspects.

The  American  government  has  for  the first time made it clear in a
British  court  that  the law applies to anyone, British or otherwise,
suspected of a crime by Washington.

Legal  experts  confirmed this weekend that America viewed extradition as
just  one  way  of  getting  foreign  suspects back to face trial.
Rendition,  or  kidnapping,  dates back to 19th-century bounty hunting and
Washington believes it is still legitimate.

The  US  government's  view emerged during a hearing involving Stanley
Tollman,  a  former  director of Chelsea football club and a friend of
Baroness Thatcher, and his wife Beatrice.

The  Tollmans,  who  control  the  Red  Carnation  hotel group and are
resident  in  London,  are  wanted  in  America for bank fraud and tax
evasion.  They  have  been  fighting  extradition  through the British
courts.

During  a  hearing  last month Lord Justice Moses, one of the Court of
Appeal  judges,  asked  Alun Jones QC, representing the US government,
about  its treatment of Gavin, Tollman's nephew. Gavin Tollman was the
subject of an attempted abduction during a visit to Canada in 2005.

Jones  replied  that  it  was  acceptable under American law to kidnap
people if they were wanted for offences in America. "The United States
does have a view about procuring people to its own shores which is not
shared," he said.

He  said  that  if  a  person  was  kidnapped by the US authorities in
another country and was brought back to face charges in America, no US
court  could rule that the abduction was illegal and free him: "If you
kidnap a person outside the United States and you bring him there, the
court  has no jurisdiction to refuse -- it goes back to bounty hunting
days in the 1860s."

Mr  Justice  Ouseley,  a  second judge, challenged Jones to be "honest
about [his] position".

Jones replied: "That is United States law." ... "

 

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'The Last Days of the United States Dollar'

James Howard Kunstler

27 Nov 2007

Author of The Long Emergency

 

" ... At the risk of sounding even more extreme, I would be hard put to
believe any reports that "consumer" spending in the days following
Thanksgiving will match the hopes and wishes of economic officialdom.
My own hunch is that average Americans are so maxed out on debt
that they don't know whether to shit or go blind. Perhaps lot of
them are willing to take a last step into fatal insolvency in order
to put a plasma TV screen under the Christmas tree and appear as
heroes to their families. If that's the case, it would only imply
a greater bloodbath in credit card default thundering through the
system in February and March, which would only deepen the carnage
in collateralized debt instruments further up the food chain.

That stuff probably has a long way to unwind, even as the "train"
of losses hits the immovable obstacle of reality and the "boxcars"
of consequence fly off the rails. The slow-motion train wreck could
sweep away an awful lot of familiar things in its path -- banks,
companies, government-sponsored enterprises, whole industries, whole
economies, nations, up to and including the prospects for civilized
existence, if severe hardship leads to war, which it often does.

To some extent, the speed and severity of the financial train wreck
will occur in a mutually reinforcing relation to what happens in
the oil markets. The rise in price is only the mildest symptom of
growing instability for the system that allocates the world's most
critical resource. Even in the face of "demand destruction," weird
changes are occurring in the way that the oil producers do business.
The decline in export rates and the new spirit of "oil nationalism"
will take center stage now, even if the US economy seizes up. These
phenomena will represent a new cycle in world affairs: the global
contest for remaining fossil fuel resources. ... "

 

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