Pendleton 8 Comment

I received a comment concerning the Pendleton 8 recently. It has taken me some time to peruse the comment and for that I apologize. The post was sent by *WB. WB contends the Pendleton 8 were railroaded to Court Martial because of the public perception (no doubt as described by the MSM) painted a picture of a heinous crime in Hamdania, Iraq.

Here is the initial background to the Hamdania incident as described in 2006:

Assault charges were filed against six Marines on Thursday as the result of an incident that occurred in April in the Iraqi village of Hamdania and was uncovered during an unrelated investigation into the slaying of an Iraqi civilian later that month, military officials said.

Three of the Marines charged Thursday are currently in the brig at Camp Pendleton on kidnapping and murder charges in connection with the April 26 slaying of 52-year-old Hashim Ibrahim Awad in Hamdania. The other three had not been charged in that case.

Meanwhile, a seventh Marine, an officer, is expected to be charged next week in the assault case, according to Lt. Col. Colby Vokey, the Marine Corps' defense coordinator for the western United States. The nature of the assault was not described.

The six charged in the assault were identified as Lance Cpl. Saul H. Lopezromo, Pfc. Derek I. Lewis, Lance Cpl. Henry D. Lever, Sgt. Lawrence G. Hutchins III, Cpl. Trent D. Thomas and Lance Cpl. Jerry E. Shumate Jr.

Hutchins, Thomas and Shumate are also charged in the Awad slaying.
Attorney Joseph Casas, who represents Pfc. John Jodka III, one of the eight people charged in the Awad slaying, said that investigation uncovered incidents separate from the killing in which Marines allegedly engaged in misconduct.

Casas had not seen the charge sheets for the three Marines named only in the assault case, but is familiar with the almost 600-page investigation report. He said it details incidents where Marines allegedly extracted information from suspected insurgents, or "high-value individuals," using force.

"The charges are going to be about the nature and method with which these Marines obtained information," Casas said. "It will probably be that they used physical force."

According to a statement from the Marine Corps, the assault charges are not connected to Awad's April 26 death.

In bringing murder charges against the seven Marines and one Navy corpsman now in the Camp Pendleton brig, investigators say that without provocation they went into the Hamdania, took Awad from his home, tied him up, put him in a hole and shot him.

After the killing, according to investigators, the troops placed an AK-47 assault rifle in Awad's hands and put a shovel in the hole to make it appear he was an insurgent planting explosives.

In coming weeks, the charges against the eight in the brig are to be considered at an Article 32 hearing, which is similar to a grand jury proceeding. At such a hearing a commanding officer determines if there is probably cause to bring the defendants to trial. (Free Republic Archive)

Not a pretty picture. Thing is evidence is beginning to come to the surface that the government case against the Pendleton 8 may have used prosecutorial misconduct in order to appease the anti-American insurgent propaganda in Iraq and the biased reporting of the MSM of what happened in Hamdania. It sounds much like the same circumstance to try to railroad the Haditha Marines over a non-existent massacre there. (You can follow the Haditha thread HERE)

Here is the WB’s Comment Post relating to the frame of the Pendleton 8:

JRH 4-14-08
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Pendleton 8 Exposed
WB
Fri 4/11/2008 9:51 AM

Documents and other evidence that have not been seen in public - ever before - will be posted soon...

Coming to an internet connection near you.

Sempers,

Bones
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http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/08/2578/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/09/2580/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/09/2581/
http://euphoricreality.com/journal/2008/04/10/2582/
http://jaghunters.blogspot.com/
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Pendleton 8 Exposed - The Real Story, Part 1 http://www.salem-news.com/articles/april092008/iraq_hamandia_4-9-08.php

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Just to let ya know who's interested, the site meters from Euphoric Reality and the JagHunter are quite revealing...

The NIST. Yes, That National Institute of Standards and Technology.

Military contractors and sub-contractors from the UK.

Guild Associates. Google 'em.

housegate10.house.gov [SlantRight Editor – Sample of Google search: Here, Here, Here, Here and Here to show a miniscule few] i.e.: Information Systems, U.S. House of Representatives ...

whitehouse.gov
pentagon.mil.
army.mil
house.gov

Universities and colleges who have contracts with DARPA and other military contractors.

US military bases and contractors from the East Coast to the West Coast.

Dozens of 'em...

Why are they so interested...eh?

Give ya a hint: Ike, and General Butler before him...were absolutely right.

S.

Warren "Bones" Bonesteel
Author and Researcher
Sgt USMC 1976-1983
55 Crestview Drive
Rapid City, SD 57701
(605) 348-2830
wrsteel@blackhawke.net
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I am not certain if Warren “Bones” Bonesteel is a pseudonym or not. My readers can do the research on that. As a rule I do not show the identity of commenters; however WB placed this information as part of his actual comment and so I am including it. Nonetheless, the Euphoric Reality and the “Pendleton 8 Exposed – The Real Story” are authentic links that I did verify. In fact you should check out the Salem-News.com story written by Kit Lange on April 9, 2008.

JRH 4/14/08

Occasional Health Absences May Occur

Whew! I did not do much blogging over the weekend. Sorry about that.

I had to spend time with my HONEY due personal health issues.

I’ll see if I can come back strong this week; however posting depends on my availability.

Obama promises 'gays' 'strongest possible bill'

Well there is no doubt whatsoever the agenda for American Society if Obama is elected President. In an interview with a Homosexual rag, Obama promised the moon for the Homosexual Lifestyle.

God have mercy on America if voters place Barack Hussein Obama in the Office of President and a probable Democratic Party dominated Congress.

One extra comment: Sally Kern for Vice President!

JRH 4-11-08

Dividing Jerusalem Rams Islam down the Throat of Judaism and Christianity

It is a shameful thing the Bush Administration is thrusting upon Israel from an Observant Jewish and Christian perspective. Not only is the Bush Administration forcing Israel to create a State called Palestine composed of people that given the opportunity would embark on a 21st century Holocaust, it is forcing Israel to divide the Holiest City to Jews and Christians alike – Jerusalem.

The Bush Administration is intent on the concept that the existence of yet another Arab nation would bring peace to the Middle East and Mohammedans would agree to live surrounding minuscule Israel in peace in harmony.

I have been a party to numerous petitions to keep Jerusalem as one city under Israeli sovereignty. I found to my dismay that many in Conservatives in Congress have also been duped into believing a nation called Palestine with the Eastern portion of Jerusalem as its capital (which includes the Temple Mount) would forge peace in the Middle East.

I received a polite email response from my Senator – Tom Coburn – saying he appreciates my concerns but does not endorse a ONE Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This means Senator Coburn (at least indirectly) is behind the Bush Administration to give yet another Holy Site for Mohammedans to desecrate in the name of their pseudo-prophet Mohammed and their eclectically created god known as Allah. Do you know what Mohammedans do to Jewish and Christian Holy Sites? Mohammedans desecrate them (Post 1967 Desecration: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, Here, etc.) in the name of Mohammedan Supremacism ala medieval thinking instead of Western tolerant thinking of the 21st century.

In this one case Senator Coburn is misguided by deluded conventional wisdom politics and I was steaming mad to receive such an email from him.

It is time for a Third Political Party to emerge that will diminish the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or both. I am finding myself forced to vote Republican merely because the Dems have become devoted to American cultural change of Secular Humanism with the goal of rendering Christianity and/or Christian Morality as a myth and an irrelevant faith for modern times. That is another future post some day.

The point is this: MY GOD the Bush Administration and the Israeli Center Left are committed to submerging Jewish Heritage (and so by extension Christian Heritage) to a bunch of hate filled war mongering Mohammedans that have absolutely a zero base for forming a sovereign nation.

Here are some enlightening excerpts from Arab-Israeli Conflict - Basic Facts:

NATIONHOOD
Israel became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.

After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.

Throughout centuries Jews prayed to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there were major waves of immigration of Jews back to Israel from the Arab countries and from Europe. In 1948 Jews reestablished their sovereignty over their ancient homeland with the establishment of the modern State of Israel.

It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of a Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian National Charter adopted by the PLO states this fact in the first article (See the covenant)

The area called Palestine included the territories of present day Israel and Jordan. Under Lausanne agreement of 1923 Turkey transferred all claims to Palestine to mandatory power Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Transjordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states, a second Arab state, Palestine, and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Virtually all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.

See: The History and Meaning of "Palestine" and "Palestinians"

JERUSALEM

For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.

In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant.

King David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948.

ARAB & JEWISH REFUGEES

The UN partition plan of 1947 was rejected by all the Arab countries. Arab leadership in Israel and in the countries surrounding Israel, planned a Jihad, holy war, against Israel and encouraged the Arabs to leave Israel promising their return after they purge the land of Jews. The great majority of Arabs left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier (see article and Arab sources that describe what happened during the war of 1948 that caused the Palestinian refugee problem).

During 1940's through 1950's nearly ALL the Jews had to flee from Arab countries to avoid persecution and pogroms. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries is estimated to be a million. This number is greater than the number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948, estimated as 343,000 (see Peters' book cited below).

Most of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries rapidly integrated into the modern society of Israel. This, despite the fact that Israel is a tiny country (about size of New Jersey) without any of the world's richest resources of petroleum in Arab countries. Today, the majority of the people in Israel are the descendants of Jews from Arab countries. (European Jews and their descendants constitute less than half the population of Israel).

The development of the Jewish community under British mandate led to economic growth in the region providing job opportunities for Arab workers. Consequently, the Arab population of Palestine swelled by the influx of Arab immigrants from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab countries until 1947 (The trend of Arab migration into Israel to find a job continues to the present day). While the British forces limited Jewish immigration, they allowed free entry of Arab migrants. The UN agency UNRWA defined a "Palestinian refugee", as any Arab who stayed in the country for two years prior to 1948. Thus, UNRWA included in their statistics migrant workers greatly swelling the ranks of so called "Palestinian refugees" (for best reference on the subject see: From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine by Joan Peters).

Arab refugee problem was created by the seven Arab countries that attacked Israel in 1948. Arab refugees were intentionally not integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the fact total territory of Arab countries is about 700 times greater than that of Israel. Out of about 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has not been absorbed into their own peoples' lands. Arab nations still maintain generations of the descendants of the refugees in so called "refugee camps" under squalid conditions with the hope that someday they will dislodge the Jews in Israel. The money spent by the Arab countries on armaments would be sufficient to build houses for all so called "refugees". Arab countries should be encouraged to care for their poor population instead of spending their richest resources in the world on armaments and development of terrorist groups such as Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.

Since 1948, after three generations the descendants of the Arab refugees are still called "refugees" and are supported by UN "refugee" funds! With the highest birth rate in Arab countries this population has now grown to about four million. In negotiations, Arab leadership requests the "right of return" of this mass of millions into the tiny land of Israel. The settlement of millions of Arabs in Israel would immediately eliminate Israel as a Jewish state. This is the real aim of the Arab countries, to achieve by supposedly "peaceful" means what they could not achieve by unceasing violence in whole scale wars and daily terrorism.

The responsibility for keeping the Arab population who are descendants of the Arab refugees, rests only on the shoulders of the Arab countries that created the problem by attacking Israel in 1948.

Quote from Ralph Galloway, a former head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Amman, capital of Jordan, in August 1958:

"The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damn whether the refugees live or die."

Related resources:

Who cares about Palestinians?
Jewish Communities of the Middle East and the Maghreb
Jimena - Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa
Jews, almost extinct in Egyptian city Alexandria

HOLY PLACES

The Temple Mount in Jerusalem is the holiest site for Jews. It was the site of the Beit HaMikdash ("Temple") built by King Solomon (950 BCE), which was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (587 BCE), rebuilt in 541 BCE, and then destroyed again by the Roman army in 70 CE leading to the exile of Jews from Israel. Al Aqsa Mosque and Shrine Of Omar were built at the site of the ancient Jewish temples. The Arabic name for Jerusalem "el-KuDS" [SlantRight Editor: or al-Quds] is derived from the Arabic name "BeT el-MaKDeS", a translation of the Hebrew "BeiT ha-MiKDaSH", the name of the Jewish Temple (see articles).

Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. Arabs recently burnt the Tomb of Joseph and the ancient synagogue in Jericho (see pictures). To this days Arab Waqf in control of the Temple Mount does not allow Jews to pray in the Temple Mount. Jews pray facing Jerusalem as the location of the Beit Hamikdash. Muslims pray facing their holy city Mecca with their backs toward Jerusalem. Throughout the ages the Arabs have ignored The Temple Mount and renewed interest only recently because of their political exigencies and not religious history (see pictures and articles).

Read the World News Daily article that inspired my ire against Western efforts to basically shove Mohammedanism down the throats of the Israelis, Jews and Christians of the world.

JRH

The Colombian Imperative

Certainly you have been reading in the news how Hillary fired demoted Mark Penn as a campaign strategist for lobbying on behalf of Columbia for the passage of a Free Trade Agreement in Congress. The inner circle strife is because Hillary’s official position is against a Free Trade Agreement with Columbia to placate the powerful Unions in the State of Pennsylvania.

I recently heard on FOX News that Hillary has even more embarrassment over this issue because husband Slick Willie has in the past lobbied in favor of Columbia.

With all these political errors and IF Hillary pulls out the Democratic Party nomination for President, then you have got to know the old Clinton conspiracy of crooked dealings with enemies occurred.

Here is synopsis of Hillary’s crises by Diana Furchtgott-Roth.

JRH 4/10/08

Bolivia on the Brink

Evo Morales – the President of Bolivia – is described as the mini-me of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela. Morales is utilizing the Chavez playbook to convert Bolivia into a Communist regime as Chavez has done in Venezuela.

There is on big difference though. Morales’ efforts though roughshod are not going smoothly in duping the Bolivian opposition as Chavez has done in Venezuela.

Ergo Morales faces a potential of removal at the hands of an increasingly angrier Bolivian people and political opposition. There are implications that Morales might survive the opposition if he is a bit more deceptive. Hopefully Bolivian are smarter than Venezuelans and put a stop to Morales before his power base becomes autocratically dictatorial.

JRH 4/10/08

It is Time for a United Nations of Democracy

Atlas Shrugs posts some excerpts that demonstrate the true nature of the United Nations. It has become a club of anti-Semitics (Atlas Shrugs term is apropos – Judeophobics). The UN was creator by the victors of WWII that wished to have a global organization that promoted peace and human rights for the inhabitants of planet Earth.

As the Western Democracies became the minority to Third World dictatorships and eventual petro-dollar strong Mohammedan autocratic nations, the UN has become a global organization that dumps on the Middle East’s only viable Western Democracy with full equal Rights to all citizens of race, creed and faith – Israel.

Indeed Israel was created out of the Western Guilt of allowing the Holocaust to proceed thus the Land Israel became a nation in which people of Jewish origin (practicing and non-practicing Jews) have a haven in which their government would not persecute them for being Jewish.

Jump from the modern Israeli nationhood of 1948 to the present and one can view a series of wars perpetrated by Jew hating Arabs (mostly Mohammedan but also a few secularist and dhimmified Christian Arabs) to exterminate the Jews of Israel as if they were vermin and not people. Hello memories of the Nazi “Final Solution.”

Look at the properties of anti-Semitism today. There is an emerging rise of anti-Semitism in Europe again. My opinion this is occurring because of the Leftist susceptibility to embrace the propaganda of Mohammedan victimization propaganda. That propaganda basically vilifies Israeli harshness toward Arabs that call themselves Palestinians yet horrifically fails to explain it is an Israeli response to terrorist action against Israel. The Mohammedan propaganda also fails to mention these Arabs not only support the terrorist acts they also aid and hide the terrorists from Israeli justice. Thus Israel often reacts to punish families or neighborhoods of the terrorists because is all the horror of accomplice to murder.

The West does not hear or read this part but only reads, hears and sees the propaganda of Mohammedan victimization.

Another seed of the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe is the influx of Mohammedan immigrants that have flocked to Europe with hatred and animosity in their hearts already planted against Jews.

And worst of all the United Nations of has become a disseminator of anti-Semitism due to the inherent nature of the majority of haters of Democracy and Jews that have rendered the original creation of the UN as a mockery.

I like the quote given in Atlas Shrugs tagged to John McCain concerning the UN:

John McCain has it exactly right when he talks about replacing the UN by a union of democracies —a suggestion I have myself repeatedly made over the years.

JRH