Hamas demonstrates its humanity again
Greetings from London Heathrow. I'm on my way home.
Hamas executed three '
murderers' at dawn on Tuesday. Two were executed by firing squad, while the third, a 'policeman' was hanged.
Last week, Amnesty International called for the 'attorney general' of Gaza to intervene in these cases.
Of course, Amnesty said nothing of Gaza's 'justice system.' Richard Goldstone of the Goldstone Commission once endorsed Hamas' '
court system,' but it goes without saying that Gaza does not have an 'attorney general' and that Amnesty's call is ludicrous.
Hamas does have Abu Mazen, who is supposed to approve any death sentences, but since Hamas broke Gaza off from the more 'moderate' terrorists of Fatah in 2007, they
no longer ask Abu Mazen to approve their death sentences.
But just give them a 'state' and they'll sort it all out....
Labels: Abu Mazen, Amnesty International, executions, Gaza, Goldstone Commission, Hamas, Hamas courts, Richard Goldstone
Ayatollah Ali Khameni on why the West need not fear a nuclear Iran
Hat Tip: @friendsofbibi (who drew it).
Labels: Ayatollah Ali Khameni, defenestration, executions, gays, humor, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat
Iran reacts to nuke framework and to being removed from terror list
Imagine how they'll react to having a nuclear weapon.
PS Where are 'human rights watch' and 'amnesty'?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, executions, human rights, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat, nuclear weapons
Hamas executes 11-18 'collaborators' UPDATED x2 WITH PHOTOS
Hamas executed from 11-18 more 'collaborators' on Friday morning (photo from
here), as it continues to kill people whom it is afraid '
know too much.'
In a central venue in Gaza City on Friday morning, 11 local Arab
residents who were charged with "collaborating with Israel" were publicly executed by Hamas, according to the Arabic-language Al-Rai news agency as cited by Walla!.
However, Hamas TV reported that the number of those executed actually consisted of 18 men. Six of those executed were shot dead in front of a mosque by men in Hamas
military uniforms, witnesses told
AFP.
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Hamas's cynical disregard for its own citizens, openly displayed by fighting while embedded in civilian infrastructure and using human shields, has not spared "Hamas collaborators" either.
A Hamas spokesperson recently told Al Jazeera that since Operation Pillar of Defense ended in 2012, "hundreds of our men were martyred digging the tunnels during the previous lull period."
Many of those who survived digging the terror tunnels did not meet a
better end than their "martyred" companions; according to reports, in
recent weeks Hamas has executed dozens of the diggers to make absolutely certain they would not reveal information about the locations in which they were digging.
Of the hundreds who died in the digging, "at least 160 children have been killed in the tunnels" according to the Journal of Palestine Studies in 2012, indicating how Hamas had no qualms about lethally manipulating child labor.
But just give them a 'state' and I'm sure they'll stop behaving like this. /sarc
UPDATE 4:39 PM
Here are some more pictures:
UPDATE 4:58 PM
More photos.
Labels: collaborators, executions, Gaza, Hamas, terror tunnels
They sure don't execute collaborators like they used to
If I recall correctly, the standing white bag from this August 2006 picture is the mother of the 'collaborator' on the ground with his brains leaking out. The scene was in Samaria if I recall correctly.
In Gaza, however, 'collaborator' executions have gotten coldly efficient.
There were three of them on Thursday.
The Majd website quoted a senior security official in the
enclave as saying seven people had been arrested on suspicion of scoping
out targets for Israel and that three others had been shot dead. The
official said that the three were killed after "revolutionary
procedures" were completed against them.
No date was given for the executions or the arrests.
The site added that zero tolerance would be shown to those collaborating with Israel.
The same website reported on August 6 that "a number" of Palestinian
Arab collaborators had been killed, again without giving a date.
On July 13, witnesses in the southern city of Rafah reported seeing
gunmen kill a man in the middle of the street in another incident which
appeared to be the execution of a suspected collaborator.
But just give them a 'state' and everyone will have the right to a fair trial.... /sarc
Labels: collaborators, executions, Gaza, Hamas
Graphic video: Desperate struggle at the gallows in Rohani's Iran
We keep hearing how Iranian President Rohani is such a 'moderate,' but the truth is that the number of hangings in Iran has increased dramatically since Rohani took power.
This video has been circulating on the internet. The Video captured the desperate struggle of a prisoner in Karaj, a city north of Tehran, who was denied a final good bye with his mother, who was present at his hanging.
Let's go to the videotape. Warning: This is pretty graphic.
If anyone speaks Persian and wants to explain it, please do. This is the
best explanation I have seen.
His final request to say goodbye to his mother before being killed
was denied by the hangmen, who ignored the mother's heartfelt pleas from
the audience to say a last goodbye to her son.
In response to the cruelty, the man kicked out at one of the hangmen,
knocking him from the gallows box and overturning the bench he was to
stand on for the hanging.
...
A desperate struggle ensued as the outnumbered condemned man fought
against hangmen with his hands tied. It was a struggle fated for a
tragic outcome, as the guards overpowered the man and carried out the
execution right before the man's mother and the public.
If this regime has a nuclear weapons capability, God forbid, does anyone doubt they will use it?
Labels: executions, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat
Amnesty International springs into action, protests execution of 'Palestinian criminals'
And they call themselves a 'human rights' organization.
Amnesty International is urging Hamas not to execute 'Palestinian criminals' as part of their celebration of Eid al-Fitr. The executions are planned as a '
crime deterrent.'
“This and other recent announcements by Hamas authorities that they
will carry out further executions are deeply disturbing,” said Philip
Luther, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at Amnesty
International.
“We acknowledge the right and responsibility of
governments to bring to justice those suspected of criminal offenses,
but the death penalty is cruel and inhuman, and there is no evidence
that it deters crime more effectively than other punishments,” Luther
added.
According to Amnesty International, several of the
'criminals' slated for execution confessed to their crimes under extreme
duress.
This suggests a possible breakdown in Hamas' judicial system.
Luther
said, “Hamas should pursue justice by prosecuting people accused of
internationally recognizable crimes in fair trials without recourse to
the death penalty and ensuring all allegations of torture are
investigated."
However, whether or not the crimes were indeed
committed by those accused, Luther slammed the concept of public
executions calling them "degrading" and adding that they "compound the
cruelty of the death penalty."
Richard Goldstone could not have said it better. The problem here is that Amnesty insists on treating Hamas as a credible, legitimate 'government,' and not as the brutal, repressive thugocracy that it really is.
Labels: Amnesty International, executions, Hamas, Hamas prisoners, human rights
Hamas to hang two 'collaborators' before the end of the month
Hamas plans to hang two 'Palestinians,' who have been convicted by
Richard Goldstone's favorite
court system of '
collaborating' with Israel, before the end of the month, and possibly as soon as next week.
The official said that the two men had been convicted by a
Palestinian court of passing on to Israeli authorities information that
led to the killing of Palestinians.
Salah Eddin Abu Sharkh, a
senior official with the Hamas-run Ministry of Interior, confirmed that
his government was planning to execute convicted "collaborators" in the
near future.
He said that Hamas authorities recently arrested several Palestinians on suspicion of aiding Israeli authorities.
The
arrests, he said, were carried out after a deadline offered by Hamas to
suspected "collaborators" to hand themselves in expired.
The
deadline, part of a campaign waged against "collaborators," was offered
by the Hamas government on March 12, and expired on May 12.
Those
who handed themselves in were promised that their identities would not
be disclosed. "Collaborators" who were not involved in killings were
offered an amnesty.
How generous of them...
Labels: collaborators, executions, Gaza, Hamas, Hamas courts, Richard Goldstone
The rewards of reporting crimes in Iran
This is what happens to people who
report crimes in Iran against the government's wishes.
Iran has hanged two men for their role in a robbery and assault that was filmed and posted on YouTube.
The ISNA news agency reported that the two men, both 24, were hanged in
Tehran before a crowd of some 300 people after being convicted of
"moharebe," or waging war against God, a broad charge that is punishable
by death under Iran's interpretation of Islamic law.
The men were sentenced in December after a 37-second video was posted on
YouTube showing four masked men robbing a man and assaulting him with a
long knife or machete.
Two additional men were sentenced as accomplices to 10 years in prison and 74 lashes.
Aren't you proud that the Obama administration decided not to help those who wanted to overthrow the Ayatollahs four years ago?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, crime, executions, Iranian regime change
Goldstone's favorite court system to hold public executions
You all might recall
Richard Goldstone's 2009 interview with Christiane Amanpour in which he discussed Hamas' 'court system.'
'Hamas has courts. Some people are sentenced to be executed.'
On Monday, Hamas 'Interior Minister' Fathi Hamad served notice that Hamas is so proud of that court system that they are no longer going to carry out executions in the quiet of the pre-dawn hours. Instead, they are going to
carry them out in public.
Hamas will soon start publicly executing Palestinians who are found guilty of “collaboration” with Israel, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hammad announced Monday.
Hammad, who is in charge of the Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip, revealed that his government recently arrested 10 “veteran and experienced collaborators” with Israel.
Earlier this month, Hamas hanged a Palestinian man who was convicted of working for Israel as an informant.
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The predawn executions were carried out inside a Hamas security installation in the Gaza Strip. Hamas did not release the identities of the executed men.
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Hammad advised collaborators to turn themselves in “before we lay our hands on them.” He added that his government was no longer offering clemency to informants who “repent.”
Justice at work. What could go wrong?
Labels: collaborators, executions, Hamas courts
Hamas hangs 'collaborator' in Gaza
For the first time this year, Hamas has hanged a Gazan for '
collaborating' with Israel. In fact, it hung three of them (Hat Tip: MFS -
The Other News).
Gaza’s Hamas rulers on Saturday executed a Palestinian convicted of collaborating with Israel and two others deemed complicit in murder, the interior ministry said.
The ministry said in a statement that the three men were hanged in a “security center” in Gaza City.
It was the first time this year that the Islamist movement had carried out an execution of someone accused of “collaborating” with the Israelis.
The statement did not give the men’s names, ages or any other information.
The last time the death sentence for aiding Israel was carried out was in July 2011, when two Palestinians were executed on the charge.
I'm sure
Richard Goldstone is pleased.
Labels: collaborators, executions, Hamas
Hamas executes two 'collaborators'
On the strength of orders issued by Judge
Goldstone's favorite court system, the Hamas branch of the PLO executed two '
collaborators' on Tuesday morning.
Gaza's Hamas government on Tuesday executed a Palestinian father and son convicted of spying for Israel in defiance of President Mahmoud Abbas, who by law has final say in implementing such rulings.
Hamas officials said the men had confessed to providing Israeli forces with intelligence that helped them track down Palestinians including the group's chief Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, who was killed in a 2004 air strike on his car.
The convicts had lost a court appeal against their sentence.
Due process of law? Don't bet on it. I can just imagine how those 'confessions' were extracted.
But give them a state and at least they'll ask Abu Bluff's permission before they do things like this. If they don't kill him first.
What could go wrong?
Labels: collaborators, executions, Hamas courts
Iran executes Jewish-Armenian couple
Iran has
secretly executed a Jewish woman and her Armenian (Orthodox Christian) husband, along with three other people, at the notorious Evian prison. The executions took place on March 13.
The regime has refused to disclose the charges that led to the executions, and has refused to turn over the bodies for burial in accordance with the dead persons' religious faith.
But don't expect Barack Obama to ride to their rescue. He's too busy in Libya for that.
Labels: Evian prison, executions, Iran
Wikileaks on Saddam's execution
A Wikileaks cable reports on the problems surrounding
Saddam Hussein's execution in December 2006.
A newly-leaked US diplomatic cable describes in detail the circumstances of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's execution, from guards telling him to "go to hell" to officials taking mobile phone pictures.
Saddam's execution in December 2006 sparked international controversy after mobile phone video of the sentence being carried out was published on the Internet showing witnesses taunting him as he was about to be hanged.
The controversies led then-US ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad to comment in the leaked cable that supporters of Saddam would use the poorly-conducted execution as an excuse to condemn what he said was a fair trial.
According to the cable, dispatched in January 2007 and classified SECRET, Iraqi deputy prosecutor Monqith Al-Faroun, in a meeting with Khalilzad, described a guard who was escorting Saddam to the execution platform telling the ousted president to "go to hell", remarks that Faroun said he admonished.
Faroun said that subsequently, he saw Iraqi officials present at the execution openly taking photographs with their mobile phone cameras, despite the fact that the devices were prohibited.
The lawyer added that as Saddam was conducting his final prayer before being hanged, one witness shouted, "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada", in reference to the radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr who rose to prominence after Saddam's fall from power.
The mobile phone footage, which spread across the Internet and was being sold on Baghdad streets in the days following the execution, showed an angry but composed Saddam standing on a steel platform in a dark hall, his hands bound and a rough hemp rope around his neck.
Several members of the party carrying out the hanging can be heard chanting, "Moqtada, Moqtada, Moqtada!" before Saddam is seen falling to his death as the metal trapdoor opens below his feet.
Heh.
Labels: executions, Saddam Hussein, Wikileaks
Lazy Susan has no comment
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani is about to be executed in Iran for a murder that there is no proof she committed. And the United States and its female ambassador to the United Nations are
silent.
Even the New York Times and the Washington Post have covered the story. Mina Ahadi, a spokesman for the International Committee Against Stoning and Execution, has been engaged in non-stop demonstrations against the Iranian government and its perverse judicial decision.
Remarkably, Ms. Ashtiani probably has no idea that there is vocal support for her cause. Iranian mullahs do not react to appeals of reason and fairness: Only when their positions are watched and challenged with condemnation, do the mullahs pay attention.
This explains why the United States' official inattention to this matter is tragic. As we have not offered a diplomatic protest -- have not uttered a word about Iran's role on the Committee for Women's Rights, the United States has abandoned its moral leadership in matters affecting all women.
Where is our leadership on this matter? And where are the feminists who should be at the barricades over this issue?
This is not the first time, and probably will not be the last time, hypocrisy is on display. But it is morally repugnant for a nation that is willing to consider stoning for an alleged legal infraction -- with no evidence other than the judges "feelings" - is in the position of defining rights for women.
This bizarre set of conditions demonstrates an Iran and its byzantine policies on the ascendency and the United States in decline. And that can only mean turning the clock back several centuries to when women did not have legal rights and were considered "half a man" in a court of justice.
My suspicion is that if former Ambassador John Bolton were representing American interests at the United Nations, a protest voice would be heard. Unfortunately Ms. Rice, his successor, and President Obama, have chosen appeasement as their strategy, perhaps believing that if we offend the Iranian mullahs, negotiations with them on nuclear weapons and other matters would be impossible.
Indeed.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: executions, Iran, Susan Rice, UN Women's Rights Agency, women
