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Wednesday, October 6, 2010

[chottala.com] Suicides US military, and Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans




Suicides US military
Psychological Price of Fighting for Empire — combat operation in US occupation wars
Colonel Steven Braverman, head of the Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center, FORT HOOD Texas, USA

Suicides US army military.

Psychological price of occupation wars.

The Psychological Price of Fighting for Empire — combat operation in US occupation wars

Army Sgt. Douglas Hale Jr., 26, was one of the most recent Fort Hood suicides.

On July, 6, 2010, Glenda Moss received this text message from Hale, her son:
Army Sgt. Douglas Hale Jr., 26, was one of the most recent Fort Hood suicides.
On July, 6, 2010, Glenda Moss received this text message from Hale, her son: "i love u mom im so sorry i hope u and the family and god can forgive me."
Her son had tried to kill himself in May.
She feared he might try again.
She immediately called the Army and then drove the 90 minutes from her home in King, Texas, to the base.
It was too late.
Hale had walked into a restaurant across Highway 190 from Fort Hood, asked to use the bathroom, locked the door and shot himself in the head with a newly purchased handgun, according to a police report.
He was removed from life support a few days later.
Moss knew her son was very troubled.
When his second combat tour to Iraq ended in 2007 after 15 months, he was diagnosed with PTSD and severe depression, began drinking heavily, saw his marriage disintegrate and, finally, left the base without permission last year.
He was brought back to Fort Hood in May after being taken into custody by police in King for being absent without leave, his mother said.
He attempted suicide in his barracks that month.
The Army sent him to a psychiatric hospital in Denton, Texas.
Army doctors told him "we don't have enough people here (at Fort Hood) to help you," his mother recalls....
Psychological Price of Fighting for Empire
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It's all a part of the Illuminati plan — their game!
The wish is for people to be killed!
US service personnel, Afghanistan and Pakistan Taliban and Mujahideen, Afghanistan and Pakistan non-combative civilians, its all the same to the Illuminati, and those who feed off their doings!
Mass chaos is the plan — brought on by the Illuminati themselves, or by those who seek to rid their countries of US and other occupation, chaos is chaos, it matters not!
It all works!
It all achieves the intended goal!
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Suicide Epidemic Among Veterans
A CBS News Investigation Uncovers A Suicide Rate For Veterans Twice That Of Other Americans
NEW YORK
Marine Reservist Jeff Lucey with his parents. 

Photo: (CBS)
Marine Reservist Jeff Lucey with his parents.
(CBS)  They are the casualties of wars you don't often hear about — soldiers who die of self-inflicted wounds.   Little is known about the true scope of suicides among those who have served in the military.
But a five-month CBS News investigation discovered data that shows a startling rate of suicide, what some call a hidden epidemic, Chief Investigative Reporter Armen Keteyian reports exclusively.
"I just felt like this silent scream inside of me," said Jessica Harrell, the sister of a soldier who took his own life.
"I opened up the door and there he was," recalled Mike Bowman, the father of an Army reservist.
"I saw the hose double looped around his neck," said Kevin Lucey, another military father.
"He was gone," said Mia Sagahon, whose soldier boyfriend committed suicide.
Keteyian spoke with the families of five former soldiers who each served in Iraq — only to die battling an enemy they could not conquer.   Their loved ones are now speaking out in their names.
They survived the hell that's Iraq and then they come home only to lose their life.
Twenty-three-year-old Marine Reservist Jeff Lucey hanged himself with a garden hose in the cellar of this parents' home — where his father, Kevin, found him.
"There's a crisis going on and people are just turning the other way," Kevin Lucey said.
Kim and Mike Bowman's son Tim was an Army reservist who patrolled one of the most dangerous places in Baghdad, known as Airport Road.
"His eyes when he came back were just dead.   The light wasn't there anymore," Kim Bowman said.
Eight months later, on Thanksgiving Day, Tim shot himself.   He was 23.
Diana Henderson's son, Derek, served three tours of duty in Iraq.   He died jumping off a bridge at 27.
"Going to that morgue and seeing my baby ... my life will never be the same," she said.
Beyond the individual loss, it turns out little information exists about how widespread suicides are among these who have served in the military.
There have been some studies, but no one has ever counted the numbers nationwide.
"Nobody wants to tally it up in the form of a government total," Bowman said.
Why do the families think that is?
"Because they don't want the true numbers of casualties to really be known," Lucey said.
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is a member of the Veterans Affairs Committee.
"If you're just looking at the overall number of veterans themselves who've committed suicide, we have not been able to get the numbers," Murray said. CBS News' investigative unit wanted the numbers, so it submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the Department of Defense asking for the numbers of suicides among all service members for the past 12 years.
Four months later, they sent CBS News a document, showing that between 1995 and 2007, there were almost 2,200 suicides.
Now that their son Jeff is gone, Kevin and Joyce Lucey are speaking out about his suicide.

Photo: (CBS)
Now that their son Jeff is gone, Kevin and Joyce Lucey are speaking out about his suicide.
That's 188 last year alone.   But these numbers included only "active duty" soldiers.
CBS News went to the Department of Veterans Affairs, where Dr. Ira Katz is head of mental health.
"There is no epidemic in suicide in the VA, but suicide is a major problem," he said.
Why hasn't the VA done a national study seeking national data on how many veterans have committed suicide in this country?
"That research is ongoing," he said.
So CBS News did an investigation — asking all 50 states for their suicide data, based on death records, for veterans and non-veterans, dating back to 1995.
Forty-five states sent what turned out to be a mountain of information.
And what it revealed was stunning.
In 2005, for example, in just those 45 states, there were at least 6,256 suicides among those who served in the armed forces.
That's 120 each and every week, in just one year.
Dr. Steve Rathbun is the acting head of the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department at the University of Georgia.   CBS News asked him to run a detailed analysis of the raw numbers that we obtained from state authorities for 2004 and 2005.
It found that veterans were more than twice as likely to commit suicide in 2005 than non-vets.
(Veterans committed suicide at the rate of between 18.7 to 20.8 per 100,000, compared to other Americans, who did so at the rate of 8.9 per 100,000.)
One age group stood out.   Veterans aged 20 through 24, those who have served during the war on terror.
They had the highest suicide rate among all veterans, estimated between two and four times higher than civilians the same age.
(The suicide rate for non-veterans is 8.3 per 100,000, while the rate for veterans was found to be between 22.9 and 31.9 per 100,000.)
"Wow! Those are devastating," said Paul Sullivan, a former VA analyst who is now an advocate for veterans rights from the group Veterans For Common Sense. "Those numbers clearly show an epidemic of mental health problems," he said.
"We are determined to decrease veteran suicides," Dr. Katz said.
"One hundred and twenty a week.   Is that a problem?" Keteyian asked.
"You bet it's a problem," he said.
Is it an epidemic?
"Suicide in America is an epidemic, and that includes veterans," Katz said.
Sen. Murray said the numbers CBS News uncovered are significant: "These statistics tell me we've really failed people that served our country."
Do these numbers serve as a wake-up call for this country?
"If these numbers don't wake up this country, nothing will," she said.
"We each have a responsibility to the men and women who serve us aren't lost when they come home."

An update: The chairman of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, responded to the CBS News story Tuesday.
"The report that the rate of suicide among veterans is double that of the general population is deeply troubling and simply unacceptable.
I am especially concerned that so many young veterans appear to be taking their own lives.
For too many veterans, returning home from battle does not bring an end to conflict.
There is no question that action is needed."
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[chottala.com] Facts or fiction : Madam Khaleda Zia's comments on War crimes trial



 
War crimes trial dividing nation: Khaleda
 
Tue, Oct 5th, 2010 11:29 pm BdST
Dhaka, Oct 5 (bdnews24.com)—The nation is being pushed towards division and infighting because of the war crimes trial, which opposition chief Khaleda Zia says bypasses the 'general amnesty'.

"The real war criminals were released after the independence war. We could not try them," said the BNP chairperson, whose party is the key ally of Jamaat-e-Islami that has its top five top leaders detained on war crimes charges.

"The then government awarded the people who opposed the war a general amnesty. But now, after 40 years, the current government, in the name of war crimes trial are attempting to try them," she said on Tuesday at an Eid get-together.

Bangladesh after emerging as an independent nation on Dec 16, 1971 took initiatives to try the local collaborators of the Pakistan army, mainly comprising the Rajakar, Al-Badr and Al-Shams militias.

The then government issued the Bangladesh Collaborators (Special Tribunal) Ordinance on Jan 24, 1972. It established 73 special tribunals across the country on March 28 that year to try those for anti-humanity crimes.

The trial proceedings began with 37,471 detained and the trial of 2,848 people was completed by Oct 31, 1973. The court sentenced 752 to death and 2,096 were freed without proof.

Some 26,000 were freed under general amnesty declared on Nov 30, 1973. But those accused of killing, raping, looting, arson and kidnapping were declared beyond the amnesty.

Proceedings for trial of around 11,000 accused were on the way at that time even after the general amnesty, which came to stop after Bangabandhu was killed in 1975.

After the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on Aug 15, 1975, the following government annulled the collaborator's ordinance on December 31.

Most of the people accused of war crimes — murder, loot, arson and rape — belong to Jamaat-e-Islami.

In a bid to try war criminals, investigators of the war crimes tribunal formed this year are gathering further evidence against top Jamaat leaders.

The two-time former prime minister said: "Ill-motivated efforts are on to use the independence war as a tool to divide the nation. It is an attempt to distort the genuine history."

She claimed military ruler-turned-president Gen Ziaur Rahman, her husband, made moves to preserve the evidence and documents of the war. But, it had been stopped.

"Those who did not fight the war but were in India during the war are trying to be the champions of the independence war."

Khaleda said there has been political business over the independence war issue. "But for the welfare for the freedom-fighters, none but us did something,"

She also claimed that the government is biased while distributing certificates for the war veterans.

Khaleda alleged the parliament, administration and judiciary were all being ruined because of what she said was partisanship by the current government. "People do not have security. Only darkness lies ahead."

Senior BNP leaders, standing committee members and leaders of the BNP's associate organisations were present in the programme.

The programme was jointly organised by Jatiyatabadi Muktijoddha Dal and Jatiyatabadi Muktijuddher Projonmo.

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[chottala.com] Saudi Embarrassment : Murder, homosexuality, ...... in London .....



Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud, the grandson of the King of Saudi Arabia, is currently standing trial for murdering his 32 year-old servant.
 
Saudi prince is seen with his servant in an elevator in London's Landmark hotel in CCTV footage
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Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud (L) is seen with his servant Bandar Abdulaziz in an elevator in London's Landmark hotel on January 22, 2010, in closed circuit television footage which was shown during a murder trial in London on October 5, 2010. REUTERS/Metropolitan Police/handout
 
Saudi prince killed servant, London court told:
   

Saudi Embarrassment

Posted by Sholto Byrnes - 06 October 2010 12:36

The murder or the homosexuality – which is worse for the folks back home?

Saudi King Abdullah, whose grandson, Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud, is on trial for the murder of his manservant. Photograph: Getty Images.

The news that a Saudi prince is on trial in London for killing an aide who it appears was also his gay lover will be enormously embarrassing to the government back in Riyadh. Saudis dislike bad publicity intensely, and especially when it involves a case as horrific as an alleged princely murder - as we in Britain should know well. In 1980, the Saudi government expelled our ambassador and banned Concorde from its airspace after ITV screened "Death of a Princess" about a young royal who was executed for the "crime" of conducting a secret relationship.

In the opinion of David Gardner, author of Last Chance: The Middle East in the Balance (and who wrote a fascinating essay on Saudi Arabia for the NS last year): "This prince has become a very hot potato for the Saudi ruling family. Though a minor princeling, he is the grandson of a king who has tried to project an image of austere probity, to limit the power of the clerical establishment and curb the excesses of the more wayward and corrupt royals. Then along comes this... which presses just about every Wahhabi button in its transgression: murder and homosexuality against a backdrop of phenomenal quantities of alcohol and drugs".

Shamefully, though, just as humiliating for the Royal family will be the revelations that Prince Saud bin Abdulaziz bin Nasir al Saud, who is King Abdullah's grandson, is homosexual. The details of the case make this plain - something called the Spartacus International Gay Guide was found in his room, and two male escort agencies testified he had used their services.

It is not as though homosexuality is unknown in Saudi Arabia. Harry Nicolaides wrote of one attempted pick-up he experienced in a daring piece for the NS in 2007. (So daring, in fact, that at the time I couldn't believe his lack of regard for his own safety. My worries proved well-founded, as Harry's bravery, or recklessness, was later to land him in jail in Thailand for violating lese majeste laws.) And Robert Lacey devoted a section of his recent book, Inside the Kingdom, to an account of the prevalence of lesbianism in Saudi - a chapter to which some reviewers paid rather over-enthusiastic attention.

But officially this "vice" is not tolerated, and sodomy is punishable by death. This is in line with a society that likes to insist on its version of the truth and airbrush awkward episodes from the official record. If you look up the country's second ruler, King Saud, for instance, on the Kingdom's official government website you will not be told that he was an obese, lazy, spendthrift playboy who proved so incompetent that the almost unthinkable step of deposing him was taken in order to make way for his brother Faisal. No, you merely find a bland paragraph listing his "achievements" and dates on the throne.

The Saudi government, however, cannot control coverage of Prince Saud's trial. Surprise, surprise, if you try to look it up on the website of Arab News, a Saudi-owned English-language newspaper, the closest you get is a four day old story about Russia commending a different Prince Saud (the king's nephew) as a diplomat. But as this fascinating article in the Atlantic shows, internet restrictions are easily bypassed by the Kingdom's citizens, not least by those logging on to gay dating sites. Prince Saud's story will soon be known. Perhaps some of those reading it will shudder, and give thanks that nothing similar happened to them - after all, they may have already met him online...

Tags: Saudi Arabia Religion

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/10/saudi-prince-murder-gay

 


msnbc.com

Saudi Prince: I Did Kill This Man, But Don't Worry, I Am Not Gay


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