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He knew a Saudi-recruited, US-trained lynch mob was assembled across his Turkish border, and knew Gaddafi's arsenal was being looted and transferred through Benghazi for use by this mob.

He knew our ambassador posted in 2011, Robert Stephen Ford (Negroponte's deputy in Iraq where they had collaborated in completing its destruction), was actively encouraging rebellion in his country (and had to be pulled by Hillary who appointed him for that purpose).

And he knew AI -- like the NED and other benign-sounding international NGOs -- is a thinly disguised instrument of US government and Western business interests. Never has this been so glaringly clear.

Was torture improbable? No, Syria is one of numerous accommodating countries that provided "black sites" for "extraordinary rendition" by the CIA. So whose kettle is blackest? The US has routinely used extrajudicial incarceration and torture at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo and black sites worldwide. In its endless freedom crusade for rapacious capitalism, the U.S. killing spree is unsurpassed.

Did the US covertly support General Suharto's execution of a half million alleged "communists" in Indonesia and subsequent murder of 200,000 in his seizure of East Timor? Did the US covertly support Operation Condor in South America responsible for some 50,000 assassinations, 30,000 "disappearances" and 400,000 political imprisonments with routine torture? Did the US covertly support death squads, torture and assassinations by the Nicaraguan Contras and the repressive governments of El Salvador and Guatemala? Does the US support Israel in its relentless extrajudicial incarceration and routine torture of thousands of Palestinian political prisoners, including children, through its system of "administrative detention" not for military defense but simply to protect its illegal occupation?

Do executions for treason occur in any invaded country desperately fighting for survival? Would the size of cemeteries inevitably increase after five years of war on its own soil? Does the U.S. conceal its covert and proxy wars behind an elaborate network of "news" organizations, covert operations camouflaged within benign government aid givers (e.g. USAID), and ostensibly objective "independent" sources?

Does AI fit the latter profile? AI claims to refuse support from any "government," "political ideology" or "economic interest," but its 2012 Annual Report acknowledged funding from Soros' Open Society, the UK Department for International Development and the European Commission, the same year its executive director, Suzanne Nossel, came straight from the State Department.

And is AI's report consistent with Assad's broad public support evident in his 88.7% majority in Syria's three-candidate 2014 election with 73% turnout despite rebel obstruction and massive expat voting at Syrian embassies in 27 countries?

Accuser, first know thyself.

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BA, Pomona College. Ph.D., clinical psychology. Army psychologist during VN War. Private practice 15 years, specializing in transactional analysis and family systems. Developed ego state psychodrama method. Developed numerous school-based (more...)
 

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