MONOTYPE RESEARCH

It is a scandal in contemporary international law, don’t forget, that while “wanton destruction of towns, cities and villages” is a war crime of long standing, the bombing of cities from airplanes goes not only unpunished but virtually unaccused. Air bombardment is state terrorism, the terrorism of the rich. It has burned up and blasted apart more innocents in the past six decades than have all the antistate terrorists who ever lived. Something has benumbed our consciousness against this reality. In the United States we would not consider for the presidency a man who had once thrown a bomb into a crowded restaurant, but we are happy to elect a man who once dropped bombs from airplanes that destroyed not only restaurants but the buildings that contained them and the neighborhoods that surrounded them. I went to Iraq after the Gulf war and saw for myself what the bombs did; “wanton destruction” is just the term for it. – C. Douglas Lummis, political scientist 

The bombing list:

• Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
• Guatemala 1954
• Indonesia 1958
• Cuba 1959-1961
• Guatemala 1960
• Congo 1964
• Laos 1964-73
• Vietnam 1961-73
• Cambodia 1969-70
• Guatemala 1967-69
• Grenada 1983
• Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
• Libya 1986
• El Salvador 1980s
• Nicaragua 1980s
• Iran 1987
• Panama 1989
• Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
• Kuwait 1991
• Somalia 1993
• Bosnia 1994, 1995
• Sudan 1998
• Afghanistan 1998
• Yugoslavia 1999
• Yemen 2002
• Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
• Iraq 2003-2015
• Afghanistan 2001-2015
• Pakistan 2007-2015
• Somalia 2007-8, 2011
• Yemen 2009, 2011
• Libya 2011, 2015
• Syria 2014-2015

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Alan Yuhas and Mazin Sidahmed

Tuesday 31 January 2017 19.28 GMTFirst published on Saturday 28 January 2017 18.56 GMT

What has the order done?

• Suspended the entire US refugee admissions system for 120 days, even though it was already one of the most rigorous vetting regimens in the world, taking 18 to 24 months and requiring interviews and background checks through multiple federal agencies. Trump has said he wants more strictures – but has not described them.

• Suspended the Syrian refugee program indefinitely. The US accepted 12,486 Syrian refugees in 2016, compared with about 300,000 received by Germany the same year. Since the Syrian civil war began, Turkey has received about 2.7 million refugees, Lebanon 1 million refugees and Jordan 650,000, according to UN estimates.
• Banned entry from seven majority-Muslim countries – Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – for 90 days following the signing of the order on Friday 27 January . After perhaps the vaguest of Trump’s orders, there was much confusion in the first 36 hours over whether legal US residents would be allowed to enter the US. They were initially denied entry, but on Sunday night, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that some “legal permanent residents” who pose no “serious threat” to the US would be allowed in on a case-by-case basis. It is unclear whether this would extend to those in possession of work or student visas. The order would let the Department of Homeland Security ban more countries at any time.
• Temporarily banned entry of dual-nationals who are from those seven countries but have an additional passport for 90 days following the signing f the order.. Originally, this meant that citizens of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen who have a passport from another country were subject to the ban, prompting conflicting advice from France, the UK and Canada to their citizens. On Tuesday, Customs & Border Patrol issued a directive, clarifying that travelers will be “treated according to the travel document they present.” So dual citizens can present the passport of the country that is not subject to the ban upon entry in the US.
• Prioritized refugee claims on the basis of religious persecution, so long as the applicant belongs to a religion that is a minority in their country of origin. This provision would allow the White House to prioritize Christians from the Middle East over Muslims. In fiscal year 2016, the US accepted 37,521 Christian and 38,901 Muslim refugees. Since 2001, the US has accepted nearly 400,000 Christian refugees and 279,000 Muslim refugees.
• Lowered the total number of refugees to be accepted from any country in 2017 to 50,000, down from 110,000. It has also ordered a review of states’ rights to accept or deny refugees; last year, Mike Pence, then governor of Indiana, was slapped down by an appeals court when he tried to stop the resettlement of Syrian refugees in his state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRBsJNdK1t0  (Trumps Inauguration Speech)

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