Thursday, August 05, 2010

... the victims, according to "Sgt S" who shot six of them, "were without a doubt terrorists". And he produced evidence to back this up, which was: "I could see the murderous rage in their eyes".
This matches the classic definition of a terrorist according to international law, as someone "with murderous rage in their eyes", and shows the key witness in any terrorist trial isn't the forensics expert or explosives analyst but an optician. If they're trained well enough they can shine a light at the iris and tell whether you're short-sighted, long-sighted, Hamas or Basque separatist.
(Mark Steel)

2 comments:

thankgodimatheist said...

The book about the flotilla attack, "Midnight On The Mavi Marmara, The Full Story" is out. Great number of contributers.
Among them: Ali Abunimah, Lamis Andoni, Omar Barghouti,Max Blumenthal, Noam Chomsky,Juan Cole, Norman Finkelstein, Neve Gordon, Glenn Greenwald, Arun Gupta, Amira Hass, Adam Horowitz, Rashid Khalidi, Iara Lee, Henning Mankell, Paul Larudee, Gideon Levy,Ken O’Keefe, Daniel Luban, Kevin Ovenden, Ilan PappĂ©, Doron Rosenblum, Sara Roy, Ben Saul, Adam Shapiro, Henry Siegman, Ahdaf Soueif, Raji Sourani Alice Walker, Stephen M. Walt, Philip Weiss, and Haneen Zoabi and many others..
http://aliabunimah.posterous.com/now-available-midnight-on-the-mavi-marmara-fu

Jemmy Hope said...

Thanks for the info, TG - some interesting contributors.