Surely a battered old man with a broken heart can have a dream now and then, can't he?
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Sheikh Raed Salah Palestinian leader of the northern branch of the Islamic Movement In serious condition in Israeli hospital UPDATE: |
Dr. Hani Suleiman Lebanese attorney - leader of the Lebanese delegation; Member of the National Committee against the Gaza Embargo, Member of Arab social movements such as the National Arab Conference and one of the founders of the National Arab club, which is a Lebanese group. Shot in both legs by a single bullet. Returned to Lebanon week of June 7, 2010 Mavi Marmara |
The Greek Captain of the Turkish ship that was raided Name unknown Gunshot wound - transferred to Greek hospital |
A Turkish Legislator (Ibrahim Bilgen? -see below) Status and name unknown Mavi Marmara http://www.imemc.org/article/58818 |
Ibrahim Bilgen, 61 Turkish electrical engineer from Siirt. Member of the Chamber of Electrical Engineers of Turkey. Ran as a Saadet (Felicity) Party candidate in the Turkish general election of 2007 and the Siirt mayoral election of 2009. Married with 6 children. Shot dead - four times in the temple, chest, hip and back - possible targeted assassination. He may have been mistaken for Sheikh Raed Salah because of his similarity in appearance. (See Salah's picture above. Also note he was killed with a distant shot which gives more credence to this speculation.) |
Ali Haydar Bengi, 39 Ran a telephone repair shop in Diyarbakir. Graduate of Al-Azhar University, Cairo (Department of Arabic Literature). Married to Saniye Bengi; four children - Mehunur (15), Semanur (10) and twins Mohammed and Senanur Shot Dead |
Paul Larudee, Ph.D., 64 American - San Francisco Bay Area resident - Richmond Hills; a human rights volunteer and a founder of the Free Gaza and Free Palestine Movements. He works as a piano technician in El Cerrito, California. Severly beaten - was hospitalized in Greeze. Jumped overboard in an act of resistance. |
Furkan Dogan, 19 A Turkish-American dual national, with two siblings. In his senior year at Kayseri High School where he was awaiting the results of his university entrance exams; hoped to become a doctor. Loved chess. Son of Dr. Ahmet Dogan, Assoc Prof at Erciyes University. Shot dead with five bullets from less that 45cm -in the face, in the back of the head, twice in the leg and once in the back. |
Cevdet Kiliçlar, 38 Turkish - from Kayseri. A graduate of Marmara University's Faculty of Communications; formerly a newspaper journalist for the National Gazette and the Anatolia Times. For the past year he was a reporter and webmaster for the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) (Also reported as Staff Photographer). Married to Derya Kiliçlar; one daughter, Gülhan, and one son, Erdem. Shot dead by a bullet to the forehead by a soldier one meter away from him UPDATE: "The director-general of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, has condemned the killing of Turkish journalist Cevdet Kiliçlar in the Israeli military interception of the flotilla headed for Gaza on 1 June. |
Kevin Neish Canadian Engineer, 53 Deep bruises on his arms after being bound for up to 25 hours by plastic handcuffs Mavi Marmara UPDATE: Meanwhile, he says, more and more people were being carried down the stairs from the mayhem above—people who'd been shot, and people who were dying or people already dead. “I took detailed photos of the dead and wounded with my camera,” he says, adding, “There were several guys who had two neat bullet holes side by side on the side of their head--clearly they were executed.” Neish smuggled his photos out of Israel to Turkey despite his arrest on the ship and imprisonment in Israel for several days." “In addition to several people I saw who were killed, I saw several dozen wounded people. There was one older guy who was just propped up against the wall with a huge hole in his chest. He died as I was taking his picture.” Neish says he saw many of the 9 who were known to have been killed, and of the 40 who were wounded, and adds, “There were many more who were wounded, too, but less seriously. In the Israeli prison, I saw people with knife wounds and broken bones. Some were hiding their injuries so they wouldn’t be taken away from the others.” He also says, “Initially there were reports that 16 on the boat had been killed. The medical station said 16. There was a suspicion that some bodies may have been thrown overboard. But what people think now is that the the other seven who are missing, since we’re not hearing from families, may have been Israeli spies.” http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/6416-kevin-neish-witness-to-the-m... |
Çetin Topçuoglu, 54 Turkish - from Adana. Former amateur soccer player and taekwondo champion, who coached Turkey's national taekwondo team. Married with one son, Aytek. Shot dead. |
Indonesian (Malaysian) Doctor Name unknown Shot in the stomach as he helped a wounded Israeli soldier. |
Irish National Turkish National Names and status unknown Wounded and transferred to military base near Ankara, Turkey http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=59428 |
Ahmet Aydan Beker Kayseri, Turkey Critically injured and in Israeli hospital |
Mehmet Ali Zeybek Diyarbakır, Turkey Critically wounded and under arrest in Israel |
Uğur Süleyman Söylemez İstanbul, Turkey Injured and in Israeli hospital |
Osman Çalık Turkish? Shot in the knee. Israeli Knesset member Hani Zuabi prevented the soldier from taking a second shot at him by shouting at the soldier in Hebrew to stop. |
Sura Fachrizaz Indonesian cameraman
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Ken O'Keefe Irish/American dual citizen, former US Marine Was been beaten up twice while in Israeli custody. Choked to the point of blackout. UPDATE: |
Manolo Luppichini Italian Video reporter Rib contusion and several haematomas - detained in an isolation cell for 12 hours because he reacted to defend a Palestinian activist, Osama Qashoo, while he was being beaten in prison. During the isolation, by knocking on the door of his cell. |
Osama Qashoo Status unknown Beaten in Israeli prison |
Ahmed Luqman, 20 Australian - university student in international relations at Bond University, Australia. Married to Jerry Campbell a second year nursing student who is three months pregnant; sister Maryam (Kuwait) a second year pharmacy student - both also on board the Mavi Marmara. Shot twice in the leg and knee -in hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. Beaten while in custody (soldiers kicked his wounds, strapped him up and picked him up and dropped him, threatened him with dogs. |
Women (name unknown)
Hit three times in the face by Israeli soldier. Then picked up by her hair. |
Kate Geraghty Australian Photographer for the Sydney Morning Herald Thrown a meter and a half after being shot with a Taser |
Mohammad Dhouibi Algerian member of parliament from El Islah movement, responsible for Al Quds case. Wounded in the right eye. Received treatment in Amman Jordan after his release from Israel. |
Necdet Yildirim, 32 Turkish IHH aid worker from Malatya. Married to Refika Yıldırım; one daughter, Melek, aged three. Shot Dead |
Cengiz Songür, 47 Turkish from Izmir. Married to Nurcan Songür; six daughters and one son. Shot Dead |
Cengiz Akyüz, 41 Turkish from Iskenderun. Married to Nimet Akyüz ; three children - Furkan (14), Beyza (12) and Erva Kardelen (9). Shot dead -Gunshots to back of head, right side of face, back, left leg. |
Fahri Yaldiz, 43 Turkish firefighter who worked for the Municipality of Adiyaman. Married with four sons. Shot Dead |
Issam Za'atar Al-Jazeera photographer Hit by stun gun while filming the raid. Suffered a broken arm. Once in detention he endured a "long and exhausting interrogation." http://www.menassat.com/?q=en/news-articles/7416-journalists-raided-gaza-flotilla-speak-out |
MISSING: The İHH said the activists Çelebi Bozan, Osman Kurç and Aydın Ataç were definitely still missing. These individuals might still be in a hospital in Israel, İHH officials said. http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-212103-israel-killed-more-than-9-... |
THE MAVI MARMARA
There are more pictures of the sister ship Dream (formally TDI Karadeniz) here
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Gulf News Reporter Abbas Al Lawati's eyewitness account of the attack and seizure of the Mavi Marmara and it's passengers.
Part 1 - http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/from-tear-gas-to...
Part 2 - http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/abbas-on-freedom...
Part 3 - http://gulfnews.com/news/region/palestinian-territories/eyewitness-accou...
Additional Links:
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2010/06/20106312530449379.html
http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/2010_Gaza_relief_flotilla_attack
Below is an excerpt from this month's SOTT Connecting the Dots:
"Israel's Vengeance, Loose Nukes, Gulf Ecocide ".
It is taken from the section titled "Israel's Vengeance".
It is an excellent examination of the events leading up to, during and after the Israeli attack on the Turkish Humanitarian ship the Mavi Marmara which was part of the Freedom Flotilla. It is a very long article that is extensively link with added pictures and videos. I have not put the links in this clip so you will have to go to the original article here if you would like to follow up on the information given.
A. Peasant at "Twelfth Bough" is reporting that there is evidence the ship seen in the Israeli video clip of their soldiers being attacked by passengers, is not the Mavi Marmara.". The ship used for the filming could possibly have been the Mavi Marmara's sister ship the Dream owned by a Greek company.
The stench from this latest Israeli 'defense mission' is breathtaking (as in one needs a gas mask). They are showing the world who they truly are as they just don't seem to care how much this stinks. Their citizens are now firmly entrenched in what author of Political Ponerolgy Andrew Lobaczewski calls the "Hysteroidal Cycle"
THE HYSTEROIDAL CYCLE
1. The search for truth reveals “inconvenient”, that is, morally embarrassing facts. For example, Christian slaveholders being reminded that holding slaves was not a very Christian activity; or otherwise unprejudiced Americans being informed that their tax dollars are being spent for racist goals, that is, to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians from the land coveted by Zionists. Hedonistic societies repress the fact that they profit on the suffering of others.
2. At first, when morally embarrassing facts are encountered, they are consciously avoided. For example, the subject is suddenly changed; or a discussion is tabled or concluded without going any further into the matter.
3. When the avoidance of morally embarrassing facts is done frequently enough, it ceases to be a conscious process and gets relegated to the subconscious; that is, it becomes a habit.
4. The habit of avoiding morally embarrassing facts is a contagious one. It becomes a socially accepted habit, the “in” thing to do. “The ‘very best people’ never discuss such things, and certainly not in public,” is a sentiment expressed innumerable times in the nineteenth century. ..."
5. Reasoning to draw valid conclusions becomes impossible because of the gaps left by the suppressed “inconvenient” facts. The subconscious compensates by substituting morally less embarrassing “premises” so as to be able to continue to draw conclusions, although the conclusions now drawn are, necessarily, false. This is the chronic avoidance of the crux of the matter.
6. People grow perceptibly more egotistic, and the society as a whole more emotional and hysterical. There is a great deal of confusion about values and such societies grow to be seen as arrogant and hedonistic.
7. When the deviation from reality becomes great enough, the person or the society becomes pathological, and murder sprees or senseless world wars and bloody revolutions are in the offing.
In short, during good times, moral, intellectual and personality values devolve to the point where a society is ripe for manipulation by snake-charmers and con-men of Rasputin-like charisma. Individuals become emotionally volatile, egotistical, and intolerant of other cultures. The resulting suffering necessitate great mental and physical strength to fight for existence and human reason. Slowly, what has been lost is relearned. Difficult times give rise to the values necessary to conquer evil and produce better times.
Also, you can find a developing list of the murdered and injured aboard the Gaza Flotilla in the forum.
"Israel's Vengeance"
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Mainstream journalism that is; Let the character assassinations begin:
Helen Thomas quits after Israel comments
Thank you for your work, Helen. The rest of the press corps could have learned a thing or two from you (maybe some of them even did).
Thankfully the blogs are alive and kicking with some real journalism. The struggle will continue...
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