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[thx1138]

> US Violated Chemical Weapons Ban in Iraq
> http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
>
> Money quote:
>
> The United States has been caught with at least 2,386 low-grade chemical
> weapons deployed in Iraq. The items appear in a spectacular 2,000 page
> leak of nearly one million items of US military equipment deployed in
> Iraq given to the government transparency group Wikileaks. The items are
> labeled under the military's own NATO supply classification Chemical
> weapons and equipment.
>
> In the weeks prior to the March 19, 2003 commencement of the Iraq war,
> the United States received a widely reported rebuke from its primary
> coalition partner, the United Kingdom, over statements by then Secretary
> of Defense Donald Rumsfeld that the US military might use CS gas in Iraq
> and Afghanistan. Subsequently Washington has been quiet about whether it
> has deployed CS gas and other chemical weapons or not, except to deny,
> then admit, to using white phosphorus during the gruesome 2004 assault
> on Fallujah as "a smoke screen" and "an incendiary" - uses not
> technically covered by the Chemical Weapons Convention.
>
> The use of chemical weapons such as CS gas for military operations is
> illegal. The Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997, drafted by the United
> Kingdom and ratified by the United States, declares "Each State Party
> undertakes not to use riot control agents as a method of warfare". It
> only grants permissible use to "law enforcement including domestic riot
> control."
>
> Riot control agents, according to former Clinton Administration National
> Security Council analyst Elisa D. Harris, speaking to the New York
> Times, are cited explicitly because they have a history of escalating
> misuse leading into uncontrolled chemical warfare. They given special
> treatment under the convention in a number of ways. They are uniquely
> and explicitly:
>
> 1. defined (Art. II.7),
> 2. prohibited for use as a method of warfare (Art. I.5),
> 3. required to be declared (Art. III.1(e)),
> 4. cited in Art. X.8(b) on investigation and assistance if used
> against a State Party, and
> 5. permitted for a purpose not prohibited by the Convention, namely,
> "law enforcement including domestic riot control purposes" (Art. II.9(d))
>
> Most items on the Chemical weapons and equipment list were registered
> via the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command Edgewood
> Chemical Biological Center, 5183 Blackhawk Rd, Gunpowder, Maryland.
>
> There is the M33A1, as pictured above, a high pressure backpack CS/CR
> gas or liquid dispenser and the M254, its high pressure loading kit. On
> April 11, 2003 the US military TACOM contracting office put out a tender
> solicitation for 75 to 225 units.
>
> The most numerous item on the chemical weapons equipment list is a
> vehicle mounted gas canister launcher, the "DISCHARGER GRSCL XM7", used
> to launch 66mm smoke and CS gas grenades....

[thx1138]

>> Sensitive Guantánamo Bay Manual Leaked Through Wiki Site
>> http://www.wired.com/politics/online.../2007/11/gitmo
>>
>> The Camp Delta document includes schematics of the camp, detailed
>> checklists of what "comfort items" such as extra toilet paper can be
>> given to detainees as rewards, six pages of instructions on how to
>> process new detainees, instructions on how to psychologically manipulate
>> prisoners, and rules for dealing with hunger strikes.
>>
>> "What strikes me is the level of detail for handling all kind of
>> situations, from admission to barbers and burials," says Jamil Dakwar,
>> advocacy director of the ACLU's Human Rights program. Dakwar was in
>> Guantanamo last week for a military-commission hearing.
>>
>> The Pentagon did not reply to a request for comment on the document.
>>
>> Dakwar sees hints of Abu Ghraib in a section instructing guards to use
>> dogs to intimidate prisoners. He also raises concerns over a section on
>> the International Committee of the Red Cross, or ICRC, which indicates
>> that some prisoners were hidden from Red Cross representatives.

[thx1138]

>A Wikileaks exclusive investigative report by
> JULIAN ASSANGE (ja@iq.org) & staff
>
> 2007-11-08 (Thursday)
>
> This spectacular 2,000 page US military leak consists of the names,
> group structure and equipment registers of all units in Iraq with US
> army equipment . It exposes secretive document exploitation centers,
> detainee operations, elements of the State Department, Air Force, Navy
> and Marines units, the Iraqi police and coalition forces from Poland,
> Denmark, Ukraine, Latvia, Slovakia, Romania, Armenia, Kazakhstan and El
> Salvador. The material represents nearly the entire order of battle for
> US forces in Iraq and is the first public revelation of many of the
> military units described. Among other matters it shows that the United
> States has almost certainly violated the Chemical Weapons Convention.
>
> http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Catego...raq_%282007%29
>
> http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/US_military_units_in_Iraq

[thx1138]

> Where Your Iraq Tax Money Went
>
> http://www.wikileaks.org/wiki/Wikileaks
>
> Over a thousand safes for secrets and cash
>
> [S]ome American contractors correctly believed they could walk off with
> as much money as they could carry. The circumstances that surround the
> handling of comparatively small sums help explain the billions that
> ultimately vanished. In the south-central region of Iraq a contracting
> officer stored $2 million in a safe in his bathroom. One agent kept
> $678,000 in an unsecured footlocker.
> - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Billions over Baghdad
>
> Bulk cash counters
>
> From the invasion of Iraq in April 2003 until June 2004, the US Army
> shipped nearly US$12,000,000,000 in cash, weighing 363 tonnes, to
> Baghdad for disbursement to Iraqi ministries and US contractors. Of this
> over $9,000,000,000 went missing. The funds were drawn from the Iraq
> Development Fund, which had been formed from US seized Iraqi assets.
> Using C-130 planes, the deliveries took place once or twice a month with
> the biggest of $2,401,600,000 on June 22 2004, six days before the legal
> handover of the fund to the new Iraqi government. The cash payment
> system has continued as there is no functional Iraqi banking network.
> With so much cash flowing into the country it comes as no surprise to
> find that the US Army has deployed 39 automatic cash counting machines.

[tsntx]

That settles that LOL

lol hey im just going by what im told

[the commander]

I don't know about the army, but the air force is pretty strict anywhere in CENTCOM (middle east). elsewhere it is more relaxed and you can get accesss to pretty much anything.

technically, you aren't supposed to have porn on your computer in CENTCOM, but I knew some guys in Qatar who snuck on a bunch.

The Commander
DIA

[ccg218]

been to Iraq...and theres only two things going through your mind..."i hope i dont get hurt" and "damn i want some ass"

[nessman]

Hey ladies. This is my first post and i am over in Iraq right now. It's true porn is banned but alot of us have civilian internet which means we can surf the internet on our own computer in our own room. Much love to you ladies and keep the pictures and posts coming. I can assure you that you are keeping some of us cumming.

[ccg218]

when i went to the sand box, there were a group of ts phillipino/tai contractors on base...one looked pretty good...seems like there were more over there than there are over here in england...lol...

[nessman]

when i went to the sand box, there were a group of ts phillipino/tai contractors on base...one looked pretty good...seems like there were more over there than there are over here in england...lol...

we need to talk ccg