Christopher Hitchens scored a televisual 'Coup de Grace'
 whereby ....

• on the day of the Hutton Inquiry's
  hearing from Britain's Intelligence Chief about the contents of the Iraq dossier
  (in September 2002)

•  ... on the day before the British Defence Secretary
  is due to appear before the Hutton Inquiry

• during the week that Blair is to do so

• in an enquiry which seeks to clarify the British Government having effectively condemned the BBC through Alastair Campbell's attack on it

• perhaps in reponse to the Blair Administration's attack against it
  one sees the BBC choosing to broadcast ...

The BBC chooses to schedule what is the first (to my knowledge)
showing of Hitchens' documentary outlining the staggering truth of why
the US Government/Administration continues to oppose legal accountability
and ends with a very packed review of recent history and
of how 911 is the anniversary of the Chilean dictator Pinochet's overthrow of Allende [delivered with visuals of a bombshell]  before then switching to explain
 that 911 in 2001 was the date the news of a writ being served against Kissinger
 for responsibility over the Schneider assassination in Chile by the CIA,
was overshadowed by other events on that day in New York.

[footage showing the Washington Post Newspaper headline story of the writt against Kissinger, pans to a photo of the second 911 plane impact
on the World Trade Centre Tower
and then to video footage of Kissinger visiting ground zero]

"It's a testimony to what evil can do in the world" Kissinger is seen to say to Mayor Giulliani [when asked to comment]

"As the former Secretary of State surveyed the wreckage, a campaign had already begun to see that those responsible for the loss of innocent life
be captured and brought to justice."

"I don't think you can have it metaphorically more perfect than that"
says Christopher Hitchens speaking to camera
"that the hunt for those who will use force against civilians or against democracy"
(visuals of Milosevic, Idi Amin, Suharto)
"for short term [pause] or fanatical aims of their own,
is now a hunt in which the whole world takes part  "
[visuals of signatories to the ICC including Tony Blair, Yasser Arafar, The Dalai Lama]
"There can be no exception".

 

All revolutions are thought impossible until they happen,
then they become inevitable.

Well, one of the things that have happened is that this movement
has acquired an air of inevitability

139 nations have become signatories of the United Nation's International Criminal Court

Kissinger - and his entire power structure
would be endangered if that were to be the case.

Britain IS however a signatory and so Blair IS accountable
for the legality or not of his Administration's actions
 in support of the Bush Administration's
war on Iraq

... the continuing attack against the Palestinians
and effectively continuing support of Sharon
(who should also be tried for crimes against humanity)

,,,, the Iraq war was conducted in flagrant violation
of the overwhelming opinion within the United Nations
and those responsible must be held accountable

Blair is the susceptible link and easier to "get at first"
but perhaps the American people will still wake up and impeach Bush
as the case against his administration stinks far more than Nixon's did!

Although Cyprus was not a major enough issue
(in the balance of time/significance decisions made in preparing this documentary)
(of the catalogue of charges against Kissinger)
contained in the documentary

•  the attempted assassination of Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus

• the countenancing of the Greek Military Dictatorship's coup in Cyprus

• the Turkish invasion of Cyprus

... which led to my family along with many other families being deprived of our homes
for over 30 years of continuing obstructionism
... when endless 'reports' to the US Congress regarding Turkey's offensive use of weapons despite conditions prohibiting their use other than defensively
(within Nato or outside of it)
(during the invasion of Cyprus)

... exactly in the same way as outlined in the documentary about how
 US Administrations have been manipulating their reports to Congress,
regarding the people of East Timor in their oppression by Indonesia

('Progressive forces' tried to "get Maggie Thatcher" on that issue also, the efforts failed)
so her "dark power" influence on geopolitics in the closing decades of the 20th century
might yet receive the kind of treatment which is advocated against Kissinger

and the head might yet retroactively be judged
to have been justifiably knocked off that statue

For 30 years successive British and US Governments
have continued their support of a Turkish Government
which persists in a view that it has "solved" the Cyprus Problem
and that it's invasion was a "Peace" operation to re-establish order in Cyprus
(which continue despite rulings by the ECHR currently)

... a position which current British and US policy still has not challenged,
despite it's clear condemnation by a European axis which does strive to be
 in support of principles of international justice and "the right way"

The actions of the actual power brokers have urged legtimising
the gains by Turkey in Cyprus
through certain elements inserted by Lord Hannay into the Kofi Annan plan
which was a Machiavellian effort to "solve" the Cyprus problem

through imposed referendums which would have seen Cyprus
having been maneuvred into de facto acceptance of partition

and legitimation of the acquisition of territory by conquest
by the pressured consent of it's own people

These charges should be added to those currently not being discussed
in an "international order" which can only address 'some at least'
of the most offensive crimes against humanity in the world

while the issue of Cyprus again ... "remains invisible and unmentioned"
in the documentary of the crimes which Kissinger SHOULD be held accountable for

Hitchens' writings regarding Kissinger's record on Cyprus are clear however,
and outlined in a book which has already been featured on this website
(on a page here)
(it's not Hitchens who does not recognise Kissinger's effect on the Cyprus problem)

The under-handed and duplicitous efforts of the Blair Administration
 to "help" solve the Cyprus problem through the actions of it's Special Representative Lord Hannay is not clearly focused on within this website, though it would make an interesting subject for someone studying international politics at posgraduate level.

The subject of 'recent' efforts to solve the Cyprus issue (during Jan-March 2003)
is a major feature within this website, and consists of a considerable archive

The documentary was uploaded to the IMC Server
http://www.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=341255&group=webcast

local mirror of comments page from the IMC webcast page

"Email" - evidence submitted to the Hutton Inquiry

The spin for war ... or "How to put the fear of 'Saddam' into the British population"
as compiled from the hutton website by an internet user

See Guardian Online Coverage

See BBC Coverage of the Hutton Inquiry

See Channel 4 Coverage of the Hutton Inquiry