Comments on: A Dark Past in East Timor for Obama's National Intelligence Nominee http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/ The world is talking. Are you listening? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:02:55 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve Barg http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/comment-page-1/#comment-1548218 Steve Barg Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:16:12 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=55019#comment-1548218 Does anyone have a copy of the cables referenced by Allan Nairn? Does anyone have a copy of the cables referenced by Allan Nairn?

]]> By: Yi http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/comment-page-1/#comment-1547753 Yi Tue, 20 Jan 2009 23:45:07 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=55019#comment-1547753 If Obama falls into the old ways of his predesessors, and there are other inspirational leaders in America capable of taking him on, we could be looking at lots of mass demonstrations. But that's it. If Obama listens, as he has in the past, he would realise the importance of getting "little" things like these appointments right, because how else can the "old ways" be done away with if Obama doesn't do it? He can't be a politician now. It's not too late. If Obama falls into the old ways of his predesessors, and there are other inspirational leaders in America capable of taking him on, we could be looking at lots of mass demonstrations. But that’s it. If Obama listens, as he has in the past, he would realise the importance of getting “little” things like these appointments right, because how else can the “old ways” be done away with if Obama doesn’t do it? He can’t be a politician now. It’s not too late.

]]> By: Mrs.Stotts http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/comment-page-1/#comment-1545623 Mrs.Stotts Sat, 10 Jan 2009 06:51:02 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=55019#comment-1545623 Did Obama Aide Admiral Dennis Blair Lie to Congress? Allan Nairn, Award-winning journalist who has reported from Indonesia for years. In 1999, he broke the story on Dennis Blair’s secret meeting with Indonesian generals to affirm US support for their violent crackdown on East Timorese. part 3 read or watch http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/9/did_obama_aide_admiral_dennis_blair Did Obama Aide Admiral Dennis Blair Lie to Congress?
Allan Nairn, Award-winning journalist who has reported from Indonesia for years. In 1999, he broke the story on Dennis Blair’s secret meeting with Indonesian generals to affirm US support for their violent crackdown on East Timorese.

part 3 read or watch
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/9/did_obama_aide_admiral_dennis_blair

]]> By: Mrs.Stotts http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/comment-page-1/#comment-1545518 Mrs.Stotts Fri, 09 Jan 2009 22:18:23 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=55019#comment-1545518 New Trouble for an Obama Nominee: Admiral Dennis Blair Aided Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings in East Timor ALLAN NAIRN: Well, Admiral Blair was involved in supporting the Indonesian armed forces as they were massacring churches in East Timor, as they were killing civilians in 1999 in the run-up to a UN-sponsored free election.That election was due to decide whether East Timor would become independent. The Indonesian army was trying to stop the occupied Timorese from voting for independence, so they set up militias, which went on rampages. In one incident, they went into a church in Liquica where refugees were hiding. They massacred them with machetes. Their flesh was found plastered to the walls. Two days after that, Admiral Blair went to meet with the Indonesian commander, General Wiranto, and he gave him reassurances that the US was still behind him. He offered him new US military aid. And even though Blair had been told by the State Department and the White House to tell Wiranto to stop the massacres, Blair did not do that. This is according to classified US cables which I obtained in 1999 and reported in The Nation magazine. After that, when people at the State Department heard about what Blair had done, he was told to talk to Wiranto again. He again spoke to Wiranto, on the phone, and again reassured him, offered him new US military aid. Blair even offered Wiranto aid for the specific unit, the Brimob, the paramilitary police who had gone into that church as they chopped up the refugees and chopped up the clergy who were hiding there. General Wiranto naturally took this as reassurance. He escalated the attacks. Wiranto was later indicted for crimes against humanity. Blair has not been held to account. And now, they say Obama wants to make him Director of National Intelligence. Read the story at; part 1 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/6/dennis_blair_obamas_nominee_for_director part 2 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/7/obama_nominee_admiral_dennis_blair_aided Watch the broadcast part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIMJG--YolQ part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUy1bsz0eQ New Trouble for an Obama Nominee: Admiral Dennis Blair Aided
Perpetrators of 1999 Church Killings in East Timor

ALLAN NAIRN: Well, Admiral Blair was involved in supporting the Indonesian armed forces as they were massacring churches in East Timor, as they were killing civilians in 1999 in the run-up to a UN-sponsored free election.That election was due to decide whether East Timor would become independent. The Indonesian army was trying to stop the occupied Timorese from voting for independence, so they set up militias, which went on rampages.

In one incident, they went into a church in Liquica where refugees were hiding. They massacred them with machetes. Their flesh was found plastered to the walls. Two days after that, Admiral Blair went to meet with the Indonesian commander, General Wiranto, and he gave him reassurances that the US was still behind him. He offered him new US military aid. And even though Blair had been told by the State Department and the White House to tell Wiranto to stop the massacres, Blair did not do that. This is according to classified US cables which I obtained in 1999 and reported in The Nation magazine.

After that, when people at the State Department heard about what Blair had done, he was told to talk to Wiranto again. He again spoke to Wiranto, on the phone, and again reassured him, offered him new US military aid. Blair even offered Wiranto aid for the specific unit, the Brimob, the paramilitary police who had gone into that church as they chopped up the refugees and chopped up the clergy who were hiding there. General Wiranto naturally took this as reassurance. He escalated the attacks. Wiranto was later indicted for crimes against humanity. Blair has not been held to account.

And now, they say Obama wants to make him Director of National Intelligence.

Read the story at;
part 1 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/6/dennis_blair_obamas_nominee_for_director

part 2 http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/7/obama_nominee_admiral_dennis_blair_aided

Watch the broadcast
part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIMJG–YolQ

part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqUy1bsz0eQ

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]]> By: maenuela http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/01/08/a-dark-past-in-east-timor-for-obamas-cia-nominee/comment-page-1/#comment-1545430 maenuela Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:53:50 +0000 http://globalvoicesonline.org/?p=55019#comment-1545430 Há que estar sempre vigilante! Há que estar sempre vigilante!

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