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The War of Terror at work - an Iraqi prisoner is the subject of potentially lethal torture research by the US Army captors in Abu Ghraib

Death of David Kelly

Full article: David Kelly/Death

On 17 July 2003, a UK government whistleblower and weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kelly was found dead in the woods near his house. Ah inquest into his death was started but never completed. The UK government's official narrative is that he committed suicide, but many voices have suggested that this seems implausible and/or impossible.

Iraq War

Full article: 2003 Iraq War

Tony Blair conspired with George W. Bush to launch an illegal and war on Iraq.

In 2003, an illegal war of aggression was carried out by the US leadership, with the collaboration of others such as Tony Blair. This was responsible for the violent deaths of over a million Iraqis, and led millions more to flee the country. These actions were found to be war crimes by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission and are widely seen as such by a lot of the world's population.

Abu Ghraib

Full article: Abu Ghraib

In 2003, the US was revealed to be systematically torturing prisoners in a prison in Abu Ghraib. Although this was not revealed at the time, it emerged in 2004 that the atrocities were part of a program (codename Copper Green) that was ordered by Donald Rumsfeld of research into the effect of carrying out and of suffering torture. Tom Malinowski, the director of Human Rights Watch would later comment about a leaked document that “If anyone still thinks that the only people who dreamt up the idea about torturing prisoners were just some privates and corporals at Abu Ghraib, this document should put that myth to rest.”

Arrest of Willem Matser

Full article: Willem Matser

In 2003, Willem Matser, a Dutch spook, and "key advisor" to NATO Secretary General was arrested with documents relating to a $200,000,000 money transfer from Bogota, Colombia, together with a convicted cocaine dealer, Pietro Fedino connected to the Cali cartel. A year later, Matser was found guilty of forgery and fraud and released with time served plus a 3 months' suspended sentence.

 

Events

Event	Date	Description
Contaminated blood affair		For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
Al-Yamamah arms deal		A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
Operation Mass Appeal		An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
Saville Inquiry		An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
Peru/Truth and Reconciliation Commission		An attempt to restore a functioning and non-criminal government to Peru.
2003 Iraq War		A war for oil carried out after "Operation Mass Appeal" an MI6-backed propaganda campaign.
CONTEST
Le Cercle/2003 (Salzburg)
2003 El Nogal Club bombing		A murderous bomb in Colombia which as "investigated" by Cabal cover-up artist, Mete Sozen.
Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse		Top level sanctioned torture on US prisoners, both to gather information about the effects of torture on victims and perpetrators as well as to intimidate and sew dragon's teeth.
Bilderberg/2003		The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
David Kelly/Assassination/Hutton Inquiry

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
UK/FCO/Strategic Programme Fund
Freedom Institute
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Capital Partners Securities
Compass
Great Transition Initiative
CANVAS		NGO
University of Antwerp
Lowy Institute			Australian military-industrial think tank
Islamic State		Front "Terrorist"	An "Islamic fundamentalist terrorist" organisation which whistleblower Sibel Edmonds links to Operation Gladio/B and succinctly describes as a re-branding of al-Qaeda.
Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights			Human rights organisation that operates in the occupied Golan Heights.
Jewish Leadership Council
Frontline Club			A venue used by the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative
9/11 CitizensWatch
Tax Justice Network
Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre		Intelligence agency	The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre reports to the head of MI5 although it is not formally part of the Security Service.
Active Change Foundation			Worked closely with the Institute for Statecraft on "de-radicalisation"
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Canada Border Services Agency			Canadian federal agency that is responsible for border protection and surveillance, immigration enforcement and customs services.

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
OpEdNews		http://www.opednews.com/	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.
Spinwatch		http://spinwatch.org
LinkedIn		https://www.linkedin.com	A businessy Facebook equivalent, with over 350 million members
SourceWatch		http://www.SourceWatch.org	This wiki based site is a major source of content and was an inspiration when setting up Wikispooks. It is a highly recommended site when researching Wikispooks related content.
9-11 Research		http://911research.wtc7.net	A solid and early 9-11 investigation site, not much updated of late, but still containing valuable material.
Wikimedia Foundation		https://wikimediafoundation.org/	Owners of Wikipedia
4chan		https://www.4channel.org/	4Chan is a website where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Operation Green Quest
Office of Special Plans

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
George Younger	22 September 1931	January 2003	Scotland Leckie House Gargunnock		Politician
Geoffrey Tucker		2003			Propagandist
Duncan Oppenheim	6 August 1904	January 2003	London United Kingdom		Businessperson	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as Chairman of British American Tobacco, and the 1968 Bilderberg as chairman of Chatham House
Roy Jenkins	11 November 1920	5 January 2003	United Kingdom Oxfordshire
Douglas Dillon	21 August 1909	10 January 2003	New York United States New York-Presbyterian Hospital		Diplomat Politician Deep state operative	Bilderberg, Brookings, Committee on the Present Danger, CFR, US/Secretary of the Treasury...
Allan Nunn May	2 May 1911	12 January 2003			Spook Physicist
Françoise Giroud	21 September 1916	19 January 2003	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Author Politician	French politician
Gianni Agnelli	12 March 1921	24 January 2003	Italy Turin		Deep politician Businessperson Agnelli family	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Hugh Trevor-Roper	15 January 1914	26 January 2003	United Kingdom Oxford Oxfordshire UK		Spook Historian
Edward Korry	7 January 1922	29 January 2003			Diplomat	"Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty"
Walt Rostow	7 October 1916	13 February 2003	Texas Austin		Spook Economist Deep state functionary
Fulvio Martini	26 February 1923	15 February 2003			Spook Mariner
Isser Harel	1912	18 February 2003			Spook
Orville Freeman	9 May 1918	20 February 2003	United States Minnesota Minneapolis		Politician
Tom Boardman	12 January 1919	10 March 2003			Soldier Politician Financier	UK soldier politician banker who attended the 1986 Bilderberg
Zoran Đinđić	1 August 1952	12 March 2003	Serbia Belgrade			Prime Minister of Serbia. Assassinated, not necessarily by his opponents: "the moor has done his duty. The moor can go"....
Olivier Long	11 October 1915	19 March 2003
Paolo Vittorelli	9 July 1915	24 March 2003			Journalist Politician	Italian TLC member who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1960s
Daniel Moynihan	16 March 1927	26 March 2003	Washington DC		Diplomat Sociologist
Hugh Liedtke	10 February 1922	28 March 2003	United States Texas Houston		Lawyer Businessperson	Hugh and his brother Bill co-founded the Zapata Corporation in 1953 together with George H. W. Bush
Arthur Knight	29 March 1917	5 April 2003	West Sussex Chichester		Businessperson	UK businessman who attended the 1977 Bilderberg
Aubrey Jones	20 November 1911	10 April 2003			Spook Politician	Spooky UK politician who attended the 1974 Bilderberg
Brian Nelson	30 September 1947	11 April 2003	United Kingdom Citation needed		Spook
Walter Raymond Jr	1929	16 April 2003		Cancer	Spook Propagandist	Cercle visitor as was his father
Sergei Yushenkov	27 June 1950	17 April 2003		Gunshot	Politician Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who was assassinated.
James Critchfield	30 January 1917	22 April 2003	US Virginia Williamsburg	Cancer	Spook	Senior CIA spook. Le Cercle
Guido Giannettini	22 August 1930	May 2003			Spook
Russell Long	3 November 1918	9 May 2003	Washington DC		Politician Lawyer
John Rousselot	1 November 1927	11 May 2003	California Irvine		Politician
John Whitehorn	19 May 1924	30 May 2003			Lobbyist
Günter Poser	23 September 1916	3 June 2003	Bonn-Röttgen		Mariner
Donald Regan	21 December 1918	10 June 2003	Virginia Williamsburg		Politician Businessperson
Brian Downing Quig	1945	16 June 2003		Hit by a car	Researcher Journalist
Leon Uris	3 August 1924	21 June 2003			Author
Piet Dankert	8 January 1934	21 June 2003			Politician	Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg. President of the European Parliament 1982-84
Strom Thurmond	5 December 1902	26 June 2003	United States South Carolina Edgefield		Politician
Denis Thatcher	10 May 1915	26 June 2003
Anthony Poshepny	18 September 1924	27 June 2003	United States California		Spook	"I used to collect ears... I had a big, green, reinforced cellophane bag as you walked up my steps."
Graham Wilkins		2 July 2003			Businessperson
Yuri Shchekochikhin	9 June 1950	3 July 2003	Moscow	Poison	Author Journalist Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who was assassinated.
Mario Pedini	27 December 1918	8 July 2003	Italy Rome		Diplomat Politician	Italian politician
Eberhard Blum	28 April 1919	9 July 2003	Germany Stuttgart		Spook	Former BND chief
Hartley Shawcross	4 February 1902	10 July 2003			Politician Lawyer
David Kelly	14 May 1944	17 July 2003	United Kingdom Oxfordshire		Whistleblower	Dr David Kelly, a UN weapons inspector who died in highly suspicious circumstances
Frederick Deming	1913	August 2003	Florida Fort Myers		Central banker	US central banker.
Sigmund Widmer	30 July 1919	11 August 2003	Switzerland Visp
Diana Mosley	17 June 1910	11 August 2003				one of Britain's noted Mitford sisters. Married Sir Oswald Mosley.
Hermann Withalm	21 April 1912	19 August 2003	Austria		Politician
J. Bowyer Bell	15 November 1931	23 August 2003	New York		Historian Artist
Wilfred Thesiger	3 June 1910	24 August 2003	London United Kingdom Croydon		Spook Explorer	A British explorer
... further results

 

Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Summary	Description
Greta Thunberg	3 January 2003		Activist
Madeleine McCann	12 May 2003	Leicester UK	Missing person	"The most heavily reported missing person case in modern history"