Tony Blair, Very Close to being Indicted for War Crimes

by Prof. Michel  Chossudovsky
Globalresearch.ca

While on a speaking engagement in Malaysia organized by "Success Resources Company", former British Prime Minister Tony Blair was the object of an articulate protest movement demanding his indictment for war crimes.

This was no ordinary protest. Tony Blair has been accused of war crimes in a legal initiative led by the country's former Prime Minister, Dr. Mahathir Mohamad.

A War Crimes Tribunal as well as a War Crimes Commission were set up integrated by renowned jurists. Documentary evidence of war crimes committed by Blair and Bush has been carefully compiled and collected since 2006. The prosecution is led by several of Malaysia's most prominent lawyers.

Dr Mahathir in a public statement "expressed disgust at the companies that had sponsored Blair's visit here.  'How can you sponsor and get advice from a liar? Do you also intend to lie in carrying out your business?' he asked." (Thousands Of Slippers To 'Greet' Tony Blair In Malaysia , April 24, 2010)

Rather than mingling with delegates to the venue, Blair was hiding in the VIP lounge of the Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, surrounded by British and Malaysian security personnel.  Upon entering the main convention hall, Tony Blair was very close to being served with an indictment for war crimes:   

Acting Chairman of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission, Mr. Zainur Zakaria, Chief Prosecutor of the War Crimes Commission, Mr. Matthias Chang [barrister], two members of the Perdana Global Peace Organisation, Mr. Ram Karthigasu and Mr. Christopher Chang, a representative of the Malaysian Kwong Siew Association (one of the largest Chinese clan association) and two representatives of the Iraq Community in Malaysia evaded the security by registering themselves as delegates.

At 8.30 am, members of NGOs gathered at the entrance of the convention center to protest against the visit of war criminal Blair. Undercover teams were dispatched to the three separate entrances to confront and attempt to serve the war crimes indictment on Blair. But he could not be seen entering the convention centre.

He had entered surreptitiously and was hiding in a VIP room just above the convention hall where the function was held. His original schedule was 10.00am this morning. But organisers issued statements that no schedule is available.

British and Malaysian security officers were seen patrolling the corridors and had identified the seven delegates who were waiting for Blair. They kept a close watch on the delegates. Mind games began when rumours were spread that Blair would not be speaking today. Hints were given that Blair would be speaking on Sunday in the hope that the seven delegates would abandon their vigil.

At 11.25am, the seven delegates discovered that Blair was hiding in the VIP room just above the convention hall. They took their positions, with three members tasked with taking photographs.

At 11.30am Blair and his team of goons descended from the VIP room and walked towards the VIP entrance of the convention hall.

Mr. Matthias Chang and Mr. Zainur Zakaria rushed forward to serve the indictment, while the Iraqi representatives loudly denounced Blair ? "mass murderer, war criminal, shame on you," repeatedly. Blair was obviously unsettled and put on an embarrassed smile.

Mr. Matthias Chang and Mr. Zainur Zakaria were prevented from handing the indictment to Blair by over 30 British and Malaysian security personnel. Both of them denounced Blair within earshot, "War criminal, shame on you! Mass Murderer!"

Mr. Zainur Zakaria also shouted at the Malaysian security personnel, "Why are you protecting a war criminal?" The security officers could only respond with a silly expression.

Having arrogantly told the Chilcot Inquiry in London that he had no regrets for invading Iraq notwithstanding there were no WMDs, Blair displayed cowardice in the face of only seven delegates.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission stated that this is only the beginning of a global campaign to ostracise war criminals like Blair and Bush and urge people the world over to adopt similar campaigns against Bush and Blair. No Where to Hide: Fears of Arrest and Prosecution by Tony Blair on Charges of War Crimes, Global Research, April 24, 2010)
 

While these unfolding events have been acknowledged by the Malaysian press, Tony Blair's visit to Malaysia has passed virtually unnoticed in the United Kingdom. In fact, outside of Malaysia, the issue has not received press coverage.

Deafening silence and complicity of the British media? One would expect that people in Britain would want to know what happened to Tony Blair in Kuala Lumpur.

Michel Chossudovsky is Professor of Economics, Director of the Center for Research on Globalization (CRG), Member of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission and Signatory of the 2005 Kuala Lumpur Initiative to  Criminalize War.  

Veterans Today: More and More of What You Aren't Supposed to Know

GORDON DUFF: MORE AND MORE OF WHAT YOU AREN’T SUPPOSED TO KNOW

OBAMA THOUGHT HE HAD BEEN ELECTED PRESIDENT

MILITARY WARNS PRESIDENT TO “STEP UP TO THE PLATE”

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor Veterans Today

The powers, factions and conspiracies that influence our government, moreover a less visible world government is guessed at, lied about but generally never seen.  Suffice it to say that what is read in newspapers, seen on TV or on the internet is wrong, even the conspiracies that seem so very right.  People who care, people often in power, sometimes in decision making positions in the US or other countries or senior members of defense and intelligence organizations are more than a bit misinformed also.  A few things have come together lately.  No “great plot” will be made from them.  Those I am writing to will know why I am writing this and why it can be said so openly.  I will try to keep it short.

The total breakdown in the alliance between the US and Israel has surprised and upset a number of people.  Yes, senators sign letters, Netanyahu buys newspaper advertisements and holocaust stories are hit print at the rate of a dozen a day, with “denialists” herded off to prison by the carload.  Gaza stories are suppressed, reporters are being hunted down.  None of this surprises anyone.  This goes on all the time.  Live with it.

The plan was for McCain to win as president or for Obama to get in but Emanual Rahm was supposed to pull his strings.  Either way, Iran was scheduled to be attacked using much of the same rhetoric that got us into Iraq.  America has massive forces in theater, good logistical capabilities and Iraq is willing to reconsider use of its airspace and bases for an attack on Iran.   Combat levels in Iraq and Afghanistan are very low, almost non-existent and all the enemy leaders in Afghanistan, Hikmatyar, Mullah Omar and others have been offered participation in a government, Karzai’s head has been offered to them and others have been killed off with the help of Pakistan’s ISI.

Inside the US, Israel’s powerful group around Bush is gone but they still have the State Department, Bill and Hillary Clinton and AIPAC’s ability to put 75% of the members of congress around anything from a resolution that the moon is made of green cheese to “National Have Sex With Your Child Day.”

In Germany, the UK and US, media giants controlled by Israeli assets and Christian Zionist allies march on cue, suppressing news, running any story and manipulating the masses, Britain, Germany, America along with Canada, Australia and New Zealand.

WHAT HAS HAPPENED

General Petraeus, our senior operational commander, the guy really in charge of our entire military, told Admiral Mullen, the man whose job it is to hold everything  together, that Israel had become a massive liability.  Israel is subjected to no foreign threats.  All the nations around them have long since demilitarized, Iraq is “history” and Iran is embroiled in a near civil war along with being surrounded on both sides by massive American forces and bordered on the south by the Indian Ocean, an American lake.

Iran has repeatedly approached Pakistan, asking the US to “hold off” and has promised to be good.  Oil prices are down, cutting Iran’s income, the Russians have refused to install the new SA300 air defense system and any attempts to build a credible defense system, conventional, nuclear or imaginary is a waste of time.  Iran is worried because they are loaded with oil and gas, are vulnerable, not far from defenseless and have one of the worst run governments in the world.

Iran is irrelevant.

Despite their oil, Pakistan, barely holding on themselves but nuclear armed and with 5 times the real army Iran has, may be the only friend they have.  Pakistan and Iran are Muslim but Iran is Shia, a sect pretty incompatible with mainstream Islam, with the exception of Iraq.

ISRAEL HAS…

Israel has put in motion a plan to force the US to destabilize Iran and believes they can be partitioned, breaking off areas that would give Israel and their partners access to massive deposits of natural gas.  With Iraq and Israel out of the way, Israel, with their alliance with India could destroy Pakistan and gain total control over the Arab regions while India would rule the rest, including the former Soviet narco-republics.

Afghanistan’s heroin output is 65 billion dollars a year, according to Colonel Eugene Khrushchev, one time senior Soviet military officer in the Kabul embassy RT (Russia Television) military analyst  and Veterans Today editor.

This cash controls half a dozen governments and buys influence in 2 dozen more.  This massive pool of laundered money, in the right place at the right time, has untold influence.

By this time, America was supposed to have bombed the imaginary nuclear production facilities in Iran and dismembered the country “to secure them from producing more weapons” reminiscent of the “toothless” American operation against Saddam in 1991.

OBAMA PULLS BACK, ISRAEL HAS OVERPLAYED ITS HAND

Obama was confronted with a choice.  He has been informed that neither the military nor the intelligence services were going to participate in attacks on Iran under any imaginable circumstances and if he didn’t “grow a pair” he and Emanuel Rahm would have to invade Iran personally and get there flying “coach” on Emirates Air.

With Israel marshaling its stooges and shills, its bought and paid for “retired military officers” and hundreds of members of congress swearing their fealty and obedience to Israel onto death, Obama went after Israel’s biggest prize in America, Goldman Sachs.  This is “ground zero” in Israel’s management of America’s “bankster” economy, the prime asset for the control and looting of America through “pump and dump” market games.

Obama set the SEC on them.  The Department of Justice would have been more appropriate, but the President and Attorney General Eric Holder were unable to find a enough of a team within the DOJ that weren’t “on the pad” to begin the prosecution.

ISRAEL’S LAST GASP

Demonstrating total control over the Republican Party, getting them to humiliate themselves by opposing prosecution of the most hated company in America since Enron was a show of power, or would have been at one time.  However, power no longer resides in congress.  Congress is distrusted by most Americans, has no real power and certainly can’t bring the dead back to life.

WHAT ISRAEL BELIEVES ABOUT AMERICA

Israel believes they can control America through the press and through political movements that show dissatisfaction in government.  Underlying all of this is the belief Israel holds that American is likely to sink into race war.  Extremist leaders in Israel look on African Americans as less than human, quite the opposite of traditional progressive Jews who stood at the forefront of the civil rights movement.  These are not the same people, quite the opposite.

The extremist government in Israel believes there is a massive undercurrent of hatred for Obama, the “N word” president and that millions of Americans are ready to rise against the government entirely based on race and a bit of watery subterfuge about “socialism.”  With “assets” and “informants” among the isolated wealthy and powerful in Washington and the Hollywood elite advising them, their “non-reality” based assessment of America’s social cohesion, a belief that Glen Beck and Sarah Palin fans make up the majority of Americans and that those people are all motivated by race hatred and class envy is a mistake.

How could people believe this?  Its simple, Americans, when angry and dissatisfied make alot of noise.  People forget that Americans are still Americans, most of us anyway.

BLACKMAIL

Thus, Israel is threatening a childish and useless attack on Iran.  They have no targets.  There is nothing to destroy, nothing to be protected from and no ability to mount any significant air attack with their extremely limited capabilities in that area.

However, they could force Iran to close the Straits of Hormuz, cutting off oil to the world, cutting off income to the Gulf States and crashing the American stock markets again, conveniently since they DOW is over 11,000 and people are becoming hopeful and starting to invest.

Gasoline would immediately hit $6.00 a gallon and move to $8.00.  Oil company profits would soar.  Housing prices in America would lose another 20%, another bailout would become necessary and the Obama presidency would be a disaster.

Also, of course, a world wide depression would set in crushing the Euro, Pound and Dollar.

THE CHOICES

Every time you hear an American leader state his “undying loyalty” to Israel, what you are hearing is something very different.  This is the sound of a door closing.  “Undying loyalty” is diplomatic terms for “don’t let the door hit you in the arse on the way out.”

Israel is going to have to make its own decisions.  It has elected a government that has made some enormous mistakes, some based on watching 8 years of America’s self destruction.  America is not always a wonderful country.  It simply has wonderful people.  Lincoln reminded us, nearly a century and a half ago, “You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.”

Not every American is going to sit on a folding chair with a sign, “Save Granny from Obama Death Panels” just because of a bit of bad brain chemistry and mysterious noises from a television.

I Hate to Say It, But Its Glenn Beck of All People That Exposes The Global Warming Money Scam

As much as I dislike the guy, he nails it.

Here's the full show of the above clip. I hate when I agree with FOX News, but I'll take my "limited hangout" when I can get it and extrude the good stuff.

ABC Nightline – Weathermen Doubt Global Warming

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They're wrong - Global Warming is real

Global Warming is so bad now that cold temperatures in Florida (30F) are causing iguanas to go into hibernation to survive the cold. That makes them unable to hang onto the branches. So they fall out of trees. The cold thump they make ...well, I've cried enough already tonight. No more. People - be generous when you pay your CO2 sin tax so we can stop global warming now.

We need to warm up Florida to save the iguanas.

End global warming now. Well, wait until after summer because I really like the beach. Then end it.

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