Blix gives thumbs up to Negraponte

John Negroponte heads US Mission to the United Nations

All Latin America held its breath when, on September 13, 2001, the
Foreign Affairs Committee of the US Senate accepted President George W
Bush's candidate, John D Negroponte, for the post of Ambassador to the
United Nations. Soon after, the nomination was confirmed by the Senate
Plenary Session.

America's former ambassador in Honduras is considered to be one of the most
dangerous terrorists of North American imperialism, who was involved in the
organisation of the war by Contra bandits against Nicaragua.

However, Negroponte's name had surfaced even earlier, during his deployment
as political adviser to the US embassy in Saigon, and he came to be known
as "Mr Vietnam" in the National Security Council — a name synonymous with
blood and brutality.

The graduate of the elitist Yale University has a long-standing reputation
as a confidante of extreme right-wing circles in the USA, notably the anti-
Cuban mafia.

It is an open secret that he was involved with the formulation and passage
of the notorious Helms-Burton law, aiming at tightening Cuba's economic
strangulation.

In Honduras, Negroponte indulged in his fascist passions. On orders from
President Reagan he took the initiative for all anti-communist operations
against Nicaragua's Sandinistas, and the National Liberation Front
Farabundo Marti (FMLN) in El Salvador.

He armed the Contras with huge quantities of weaponry to the value of many
millions of US dollars, established training camps for the bandits near the
Nicaraguan border, and organised hundreds of US "collaborators" to be
within reach of his embassy at Tegucigalpa. Under Negroponte US military
aid to Honduras was increased from US$4 million to US$7.4 million.

According to the Baltimore Sun the "diplomat" ensured the
establishment of Special Battalion 316 by the Honduran army, which was
trained and instructed by the US secret service. Among the terror acts
perpetrated by this unit is the murder of 32 women, who were thrown out of
choppers.

Within five years Battalion 316 was responsible for the deaths under
horrendous tortures of at least 184 persons.

Every one of the officers from this unit has passed through US training
camps. In 1994 the Human Rights Commission of Honduras published a report
about military terrorism, which pointed directly at Negroponte as the
instigator of these acts.

Now the chief terrorist of the Contra war against Nicaragua, the Cuba-hater
and professional anti-communist John Negroponte sits at the table of the
Security Council of the United Nations, where human rights are on the
agenda.

No doubt he is familiar with the subject-matter, since he knows better than
anyone how to trample on human rights.

http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve5/1086neg.html

US is misquoting my Iraq report, says Blix
By Judith Miller and Julia Preston in New York
February 1 2003

Chief weapons inspector Hans Blix arrives at UN headquarters in New York. Photo: AFP

Days after delivering a broadly negative report on Iraq's cooperation with international inspectors, Hans Blix challenged several of the Bush Administration's assertions about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.

In an interview on Wednesday, Dr Blix, the United Nations chief weapons inspector, seemed determined to dispel any impression that his report was intended to support the United States' campaign to build world support for a war to disarm Saddam Hussein.
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/01/31/1043804520548.html

Poor Blix does not have a chance to have the American media factually report his findings.

The American media is no different than the madia in totalitarian countries. The big cheese and his min
ions speak and the media repeats everything word for word. Truth is a casualty of war and Blix is one of its many victims

Peace

Lets not forget teamplayer Negroponte of Reagan/Bush Heritage Foundation---------
(many critics argue reagan used HF playbook to the letter.[the same team that brought us Homeland Security, Newt's Contract 'on' America])

US-led illegal embargo against Nicaragua--
which the World Court ruled illegal in 1986. 17 Billion in reparations were ordered. Never paid.

Remember the mining of the harbors-- the 300m in aid to the Contras? A boat from Portugal was crippled-- Reagan, Bush, Negroponte, Poindexter, Cheney, Rumsfield, Olie North, Iran-contra?
so many old pals are back....