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VS eist vertrek Irakezen in 60 + landen !
Foreign Press Foundation - Henk Ruyssenaars - 13.03.2003 17:45
Is van de Nederlandse regering ook geëist, dat men hier in het land aanwezige staatsburgers en diplomaten van Irak - en andere landen - zonder enige vorm van proces tot "Persona non Grata" verklaart ?
Deze vraag is gesteld aan bijna alle nederlandse Kamerleden en de regering, terwijl deze tekst ook in de NL-media bekend is.
Is van de Nederlandse regering ook geëist, dat men hier in het land aanwezige staatsburgers en diplomaten van Irak - en andere landen - zonder enige vorm van proces tot "Persona non Grata" verklaart ? Zonder wetten en conventies te respecteren ?
Dat mag toch niet ?
Of zijn we allemaal vogelvrij verklaard ?
NOTE : This article is also send - both as a courtesy and an official request - to the government and the members of Parliament in The Netherlands.
QUESTIONS IN THE WORLD'S PARLIAMENTS : ARE WE ALL OUTLAWED ?
The United States govt. forces 60+ Nations to Expel Iraqi diplomats !
FPF- AMSTERDAM - Many European and other sovereign heads of state are
stupefied by the command by the United States, trying to force more than 60 other countries to also expel Iraqi diplomats. US State Department spokesman Philip Reeker confirmed the expulsion request.
"No laws nor conventions are valid anymore", one Dutch foreign observer
pointed out " the very second the United States - without a proper UN-mandate - attacks Iraq, it confirms that we are all globally outlawed.
Including the american population".
Without any form of process, nor proof, many Iraqi diplomats and -citizens in other countries have already been declared "Persona non Grata", accused
by the US of being spies etc. and expelled. There is no evidence however,
and in some countries like France, Germany, England, Sweden, Belgium, The Netherlands a.s.o. officials are ashamed to even talk about this arm
twisting.
No proof whatsoever for the accusations is given, but US secret service- and
diplomatic officials just say "those Iraqi citizens are undercover agents possibly poised to attack American interests overseas". Yesterday, the US State Department said it also had ordered two U.N.-based Iraqi diplomats to leave the country. Within 72 hours.
In global diplomatic circles there is awe and chock concerning this blunt
attack on the Corps Diplomatique, a move by the US which is considered rude and very ill-mannered. Everybody understands it is part of the US warfare, but also knows that the wrath of the US State Dept. can hit anybody anytime and anywhere, since no law is valid anymore.
Many diplomats had been approached by U.S. officials and asked to defect. Last month, the U.S. government expelled an Iraqi journalist who covered the United Nations for the official Iraqi News Agency, saying he was "a danger" to the security of the United States.
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
 fpf@chello.nl
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| Read more about: vrijheid, repressie & mensenrechten | | supplements | | | cock and awe | jaap knasterhuis - 14.03.2003 06:40
ik sta sprakeloos, ik ben chocked and awed.
henk levert weer goed werk af.
niet de eerste keer overigens.
dankzij hem weten we wie de echte moordenaars van pim fortuyn zijn.
waarom krijgt hij niet meer credit.
mensen als hij zijn van onschatbare waarde voor de vredesbeweging.
| | Ook sprakeloos | HR - 16.03.2003 10:11
Kunnen de media door de bommen Bush niet meer zien ?
Het lijkt een kruising van onwil en rechtse domheid : de journalisten/media die meedoen aan de Irak- oorlogshetze en verdwaald zijn op het oorlogspad : ze kunnen door de bommen Bush niet meer zien.
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JOURNALISM AND COLLABORATION
by Henk Ruyssenaars*
One of the absolutely best journalists in the world, Robert Fisk, in The Independent (UK) - writes the following about the role of journalists in the present
propaganda-war concerning Iraq :
 http://argument.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=373102&host=6&dir=140
Quote : "Western journalists play a leading role in this propaganda. Take Eric Schmitt in The New York Times a week ago. He wrote a story about America's decision to "confront countries that sponsor terrorism". And his sources? "Senior defence officials", "administration officials", "some American intelligence officials", "the officials", "officials", "military officials", "terrorist experts" and "defence officials". Why not just let the Pentagon write its own reports in The New York Times?
But that is what is changing. More and more Americans - aware that their President declined to serve his country in Vietnam - realise that their newspapers are lying to them and acting as a conduit for the US government alone.
More and more Britons* are tired of being told to go to war by their newspapers and television stations and politicians. Indeed, I'd guess that far more Britons are represented today by the policies of President Chirac of France than Prime Minister Blair of Britain." (end quote)
*And Europeans and other people in general ?
A poll by TIME/CNN* on Internet shows the following - for the US hairraising - results :
Which country - it is asked - poses the greatest danger to world peace in 2003 ? Today the poll stands at this :
North Korea 7.5 %
Iraq 8.6 %
The United States 83.9 %
Total Votes Cast: 298.443
*TIME/CNN-poll : http://www.time.com/time/europe/gdml/peace2003.html?cnn=yes
But, according to world famous playwright Harold Pinter the United States is dangerous :
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=40&ItemID=2739
The question of course should thus be asked :
Are journalists in a sense killers too ?
See for instance :
http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=19469
A clear example is right now the deadly way of operating of some murderous journalist and media in Venezuela, as described here in 'Le Monde Diplomatique' (in English) :
http://mondediplo.com/2002/08/10venezuela
The Washington Post seems to have found one of the reasons for collaborating ;
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/050701a.html
But, what about our / your own country ?
THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION
forpressfound@correx.every1.net
Editor : Henk Ruyssenaars
The Netherlands
fpf@chello.nl
* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America, (Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East. While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too... Because of journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different governments in East and West.
HR
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