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Handsome and elegant George Peppard occasionally displayed considerable talent through his career, but was too often cast in undemanding action roles. The Case Against Henry Kissinger Part One The making of a war criminal by Christopher Hitchens Harpers magazine, March 2001. THE 1968 ELECTION * INDOCHINA * CHILE. Organization definition, the act or process of organizing.
The Case Against Henry Kissinger Part One by Christopher Hitchens. Part One. The making of a war criminalby Christopher Hitchens. Harpers magazine, March 2. THE 1. 96. 8 ELECTION * INDOCHINA * CHILEIt will become clear, and may as well be stated at the outset.
Henry Kissinger. The conclusions of the report by. Congressman Otis Pike still make shocking reading and reveal on. Kissinger's part a callous indifference to human life and human. But they fall into the category of depraved realpolitik.
In the same way, Kissinger's orchestration of political and. South Africa presents. Angola. Again, though. Cold War and imperial history. Additionally, one must take into account the.
Similar reservations can be held about Kissinger's chairmanship. Presidential Commission on Central America in the early. Oliver North and which whitewashed. Or about the political protection.
Kissinger, while in office, for the Pahlavi dynasty. Iran and its machinery of torture and repression. The list. it is sobering to say, could be protracted very much further. These include, in this installment, the deliberate mass. Indochina and the personal.
Chile- with which the United States was. In a second installment we will see that this criminal. Bangladesh, Cyprus, East Timor, and even. Washington, D. C. Some of these allegations can be constructed only prima facie. Mr. Kissinger- in what may also amount to a deliberate and.
We now, however. enter upon the age when the defense of . As I demonstrate below. Kissinger has understood this decisive change even if many of. The House of Lords' ruling in London, on. General Augusto Pinochet's crimes. Spanish magistracy and the. International Tribunal at The Hague, has destroyed.
There is now no reason why a warrant for the. Kissinger may not be issued in any one of a number of. Indeed, as I write, there are a number of jurisdictions where. First, it will violate the essential and now uncontested.
Second. it will suggest that prosecutions for war crimes and crimes against. This in turn will lead to the paltry politicization. Many if not most of Kissinger's partners in politics, from.
Greece to Chile to Argentina to Indonesia, are now in jail or. His own lonely impunity is rank; it smells to.
If it is allowed to persist then we shall shamefully vindicate. Anacharsis, who maintained that laws were. In the name of innumerable victims known and. REGARDING HENRYIn December 2, 1. Michael Korda was being interviewed on. Simon & Schuster.
As one of the reigning. New York publishing, he had edited and .
On this particular day. Cher, whose portrait. And then the telephone rang and there.
A polymath like Korda knows- what with the exigencies. Cher and high statecraft.
The camera kept running, and. I possess: Asking his secretary to get the number (7. Kissinger Associates), Korda quips dryly, to general laughter. You're. getting all the publicity you could want in the New York Times. I also think it's very, very dubious.
We did it until quite recently, frankly, and he did. Well, I don't think there's any question about that. Henry, this is totally outrageous. This is a Spanish judge.
English court about a Chilean head of state. Also, Spain has no rational jurisdiction over events. Chile anyway, so that makes absolutely no sense . Well. that's probably true . I think that would be. Right, yeah, no, I think it's exactly. I don't think it should be long, and I.
I think it's a. very important document . Yes, but I think the letter is wonderful. Can you let me read the Lebanon. The first and most important. Sitting in his office at Kissinger Associates, with its.
Belgrade. to Beijing, and cushioned by innumerable other directorships and. On December 2, 1. Tim Weiner, the. paper's national- security correspondent in Washington.
Will Release Files on Crimes Under Pinochet. But the decision could open . Kissinger, who served. Secretary of State, supported. Chile in the early 1.
But many of the actions of the United States during the 1. American leaders and intelligence services. Pinochet Government after it seized power. The secret files on. Pinochet regime are held by the C. A., the Defense Intelligence. Agency the State Department, the Pentagon, the National Security.
Council, the National Archives, the Presidential libraries of. Gerald R. Ford and Jimmy Carter, and other Government agencies. The intelligence agency also has records. Chile's attempts to establish an international right- wing covert- action. The Ford Library contains many of Mr. Kissinger's secret. Chile, which have never been made public.
Through a secretary. Mr. Kissinger declined a request for an interview today. One must credit Kissinger with grasping what so many other. Pinochet precedent became established.
The United States believes. Yet the thought had very obliquely surfaced. Weiner's story, and Kissinger was a worried man when he called. Years of Renewal), which was still in progress.
His advice. is sought, at $3. His turgid newspaper column is. Los Angeles Times and appears as far afield. Washington Post. His first volume of memoirs was in part.
Harold Evans, who with Tina Brown. Kissinger's. company, or perhaps one should say society, for their New York. At different times, he has been a consultant to ABC News. CBS; his most successful diplomacy, indeed, has probably been. Of whom else would Norman Podhoretz.
Kissinger's. memoirs, Years of Upheaval: What we have here is writing of the very highest order. It. is writing that is equally at ease in portraiture and abstract. It is writing that can shift. A critic who can suck like that, as was once dryly said by. He leaves the well- furnished. Is it perhaps another disclosure. Nixon tape ? Some stray news from Indonesia.
The arrest or indictment. Any one. of these can instantly spoil his day. As we see from the Korda. Kissinger cannot open the morning paper with the assurance. Because he knows what others can only suspect.
And he is a prisoner of the knowledge, as, to some. Notice the likable way in which Michael Korda demonstrates. Cambodia jest. He's exactly the same man.
And. that may be among the most nauseating reflections of all. Kissinger. is not invited and feted because of his exquisite manners or his. No. he is sought after because his presence supplies a frisson, the. There's a slight. Korda's gag about the indescribable. Indochina. And I've noticed, time and again, standing. Kissinger speeches, that laughter.
In exacting this tribute, he flaunts not the . The reason for this is, on first. The open secret is in the possession of. Thus, its full. disclosure would be in the interest of no particular faction.
In the fall of 1. Richard. Nixon and some of his emissaries and underlings set out to sabotage.
Paris peace negotiations on Vietnam. The means they chose.
South Vietnamese military. Republican regime would offer them a better. Democratic one. In this way, they undercut both. Vice President. Hubert Humphrey.
In another way, it did not . The. reason for the dead silence that still surrounds the question.
Americans and an. Vietnamese, Cambodians, and Laotians lost. Lost them, that is to say, even more pointlessly. The impact of those four. Indochinese society, and on American democracy, is beyond. The chief beneficiary of the covert action, and of. Henry Kissinger. I can already hear the guardians of consensus, scraping their.
Let us take, first, the Diaries. H. First, because on the logical inference of . Haldeman would. supply evidence of his knowledge of a crime, unless he was (posthumously). Second, because it is possible to trace back.
In January 1. 97. Nixon- Kissinger Administration- for which. Haldeman took the minutes- was heavily engaged on two fronts. In. Paris again, Henry Kissinger was striving to negotiate . In Washington, D. C., the web of evidence. Watergate burglars and buggers was beginning to tighten.
He also thinks I ought to move with George. Christian . Later. I fortunately hadn't done. On the same day, Haldeman reports Henry Kissinger calling.
Paris, saying . He wonders. Andreas go in and scare Hubert. The. problem in going at LBJ is how he'd react, and we need to find. I talked to Mitchell on the phone on this subject and.
De Loach had told him he was up to date on the thing because. Texas. A Star re' porter was making an inquiry.
LBJ got very hot and called Deke and. Nixon people are going to play with this. By our side. I assume he means the Nixon campaign organization.
De Loach took. this as a direct threat from Johnson.. As he recalls it, bugging. Dragon Lady. . Under intense pressure about the bugging. Watergate building, Nixon instructed his chief of staff. Haldeman, and his FBI contact, Deke De. Loach, to unmask the bugging. He also. sounded out former president Johnson, through former senior Democrats.
Texas governor John Connally, to gauge what his reaction. The aim was to show that . Hence the second thoughts (. In his excellent introduction to.
The Haldeman Diaries, Nixon's biographer Professor Stephen Ambrose. Lyndon Johnson as . But he also suggests that Johnson. The answer to the.
Johnson Administration . It was given in a book entitled. Counsel to the President, published in 1. Its author was Clark.
Clifford, the quintessential blue- chip Washington insider, who. Richard Holbrooke, the former assistant. United Nations. The chief interlocutor. American end was John Mitchell, then Nixon's campaign manager.
Prisoner Number. 2. Maxwell Air Force Base prison camp). He was actively. assisted by Madame Anna Chennault, known to all as the . Hawkish to a man, they kept Vice President. Humphrey out of the loop.
But, hawkish as they were, they were. Nixon's treachery. They nonetheless. Clifford says that. Paris talks. altogether.
He could have added that it would have created a crisis. American institutions. There are some things. And even though the. Clifford is in no doubt of the advice on which he.
The activities of the Nixon team went far beyond the bounds. It constituted direct interference. Chief Executive, the only people with authority to negotiate. The activities of the Nixon campaign. Perhaps aware of the slight feebleness of his lawyerly prose. Clifford adds in a.
American Muslim History. American Muslim History. A Chronological Observation. By Fareed H. Numan(December 1.
Edited by Ishaq Zahid for islam. Unquestionably, Muslims have made an impact on the evolution. American society. Historically Muslims have made major contribution, e. They explored North America 3. They used the Mississippi. Here are a few glimpses.
Muslim life in American History: 1. A Chinese document know as the Sung Document records the. Muslim sailors to a land know as Mu- Lan- Pi (America). Mention of this document. Khotan Amiers, 1. Abu Bakari (Abu Bakar), a Muslim king of the Malian Empire, spearheads a.
New World. 1. 31. African Muslims (Mandinga) arrive in the Gulf o Mexico for exploration of. American interior using the Mississippi River as their access route. These Muslim. explorers were from Mali and other parts of West Africa. Pri Ries completes his first world map, including the American, after.
The practicality and artistry of his map surpassed. African slaves arrive in America. During the slave trade, more than 1. Africans were uprooted from their homes and brought to American shores. Many of. these slaves were from the Fulas, Fula Jallon, Fula Toro, and Massiona as well as other. West Africa. These areas were governed from their capital, . More than 3. 0 percent of these.
Muslim. They became the backbone of the American economy. Estevanico of Azamor, a Muslim from Morocco, lands in Florida with the. Panfilo de Narvaez in 1.
Estevanico remained in America to. Americans to cross the continent.
At least two states owe their. Muslim, Arizona and New Mexico. Ayyub ibn Sulaiman Jallon, a Muslim slave in Maryland, is set free by. James Oglethorpe, founder of Georgia, and provided transportation to England. He arrived. home (Boonda, Galumbo) from England in 1. Moors from Spain are reported living in South Carolina and Florida. United States Congress prohibits the importation of slaves into America.
Jan. Despite suppression of the slave trade during the next 6. The last Slave ships to be confiscates by. Wildfire, Storm King, Williams, Erie, Echo, Cora, and Binita. Yarrow Mamout, an African Muslim slave, is set free in Washington DC, and. America, the. Columbia Bank. Yarrow may have lived to be more than 1. American history.
Two portraits of Yarrow done by well known artists are on public. The first, painted by Charles W. Peal in 1. 81. 9 was done when Yarrow was 1.
It hangs in the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. A second portrait completed by. James Simpson in 1.
Peabody Room at the. Georgetown Public Library, Washington DC. Al Haj Umar ibn Sayyid is enslaved in Charleston after running away. In. jail, he is visited by John Owen and taken to Blade County and placed on the Owen.
John Owen later became Governor of North Carolina. It has been reported that. Umar lived to be 1. Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori, a former prince from West Africa and now a. Georgia plantation, is freed by the order of Secretary of State Henry Clay and.
President John Quincy Adams. He was known to many during his lifetime as . His life has also been well- documented. Sayyid Sa'id, ruler of Oman, orders his ship The Sultana to set sail for. America on a trade mission.
The Sultana touched port in New York, April 3. Although. the voyage was not a commercial success, it marks the point of successful friendly. The United States cavalry hire a Muslim by the name of Hajji Ali to. Arizona. 1. 86. 5The American Civil War ends. The libraries at the University of Alabama managed to. On the morning of April 4, when. Federal troops reached the campus with order to destroy the university, Andre Deloffre, a.
South. The officer, being sympathetic, sent a. Gen. Croxton at his headquarters in Tuscaloosa asking permission to save the. Rotunda. The general's reply was no. The officer reportedly said, . The volume selected was a rare copy of the. Qur'an. 1. 87. 0The Reverend Norman, a Methodist missionary, converts to Islam.
Blyden, noted scholar and social activist, traveled throughout. United States, proclaiming Islam.
In a speech before. Colonization Society of Chicago, Blyden told his audience that the reasons Africans. Islam over Christianity is that, . They are mainly Turks, Kurds, Albanians. Arabs. 1. 91. 3Timothy Drew (Noble Drew Ali) establishes an organization in Newark, NJ.
Moorish Science Temple of America (MSTA). Drew Ali reportedly was. Sultan of Morocco to teach Islam to Negroes in the United States. The. MSTA is also responsible for many of today's African- American converts to Islam. Albanian Muslims build a Masjid in Maine and establish an Islamic. By 1. 91. 9, they had established another Masjid in Connecticut. Theirs was one. of the first associations for Muslims in the United States.
The Red Crescent, a Muslim charity modeled after the International Red. Cross, is established in Detroit.
A branch of the Ahmadiyya Movement is founded in Chicago by Dr. Mufti. Muhammad Sadiq.
This movement converted many African Americans to their. Islam. 1. 92. 6Duse Muhammad Ali, mentor of Marcus Garvey and the person who had a. Garvey's movement, establishes an organization in Detroit known. Universal Islamic Society. African American Muslims establish the First Muslim Mosque in Pittsburgh. PA. 1. 93. 3The Nation of Islam (NOI), one of the most significant organizations in.
American Muslim history, is founded. NOI was also effective in highlighting American Christians'. African Americans. The NOI's philosophy was introduced in the United States by Fard Muhammad (Wallace Ford), a.
The late Elijah Mohammed, who succeeded Fard in. Islam as a. way of life. Two of the most famous African Americans, Muhammad Ali, and Al Hajj Malik. Shabazz (Malcolm X), were early adherents of this movement. Both later embraced the.
Islam. 1. 93. 4The Lebanese Community of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, opens its first. Masjid. 1. 93. 9The Islamic Mission Society is founded in New York City by Sheikh Dawood.
Until then, Islam was not recognized as a legitimate. The State Street Masjid in New York City is established by Sheikh Dawood. Ahmed Faisal. It is still in use today and represents a special point in the development. American Muslim community. From this Masjid was born the Dar- ul- Islam. The NOI's University of Islam schools flourished and drew the attention of. American media. Coverage focuses upon the Black Muslims' self- help programs for.
Blacks, but considered them a . The Dar- ul- Islam movement, another important groups among the African. American Muslim community is born. Until its disappearance in 1. Islam in America. The newspaper Muhammad Speaks is launched. It later becomes the largest.
In. subsequent years, it underwent some name changes, and the NOI itself underwent various. It has also been know as Bilalian News the A. M. Journal and. currently, the Muslim Journal. The Muslim Students Association (MSA) is established as an organization to. Muslims students attending schools in the United States. MSA now has more than. In the 1. 97. 0s, it gave birth to the Islamic Medical Association.
IMA), The Association of Muslim Social Scientists (AMSS), and the Association of Muslim. Scientists and Engineers (AMSE).
Al Hajj Malik al- Shabazz (Malcolm X) is assassinated in New York . He was. one of the most outstanding Muslims in American history as well as a dedicated fighter for. African Americans and other oppressed people. The Hanafi Movement is founded by Hamas Abdul Khaalis.
The Hanafi Madh- hab. Center was established in New York, but later moved to Washington DC.
This movement had a. United States. Kareem Abdul- Jabbar a famous basketball. Muslims who first came into contact with Islam through this. In 1. 97. 7, Khaalis and some of his followers seized control of three District of. Columbia buildings, holding hostages for more than 3.
Khaalis. is now incarcerated in Washington DC, serving a sentence of 4. This movement. marks a challenging period in American Muslim History.
The Association of Muslim Scientists and Engineers is established. The Association of Muslim Scientists is launched. Elijah Muhammad, leader of the Nation of Islam, dies and is succeed by his. Warith Deen Mohammed, who has been credited with moving the NOI toward the broader.
Islam. He is now regarded as one of the leading Muslim spokesmen in. United States. 1. The first American Islamic library is established in Plainfield. Indiana. 1. 98. 2The Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) is established in Plainfield. IN. ISNA is now an umbrella organization for many active Islamic groups seeking to further. Islam in the United States.
Al- Faruqi and his wife are murdered in their home outside. Philadelphia. Faruqi are the authors of the Cultural Atlas of Islam as well. Faruqi is the founder of AMSS and the.
International Institute of Islamic Thought, located in Northern Virginia. This truly. remarkable Muslim family is responsible for some of the most constructive programs to. Islam in the United States. Muslims hold the first solidarity conference called . The conference was organized by the American.
Muslim Council. 1. Imam Siraj Wahhaj offers an invocation (opening prayer) to the United. States House of Representatives. He was the first Muslim to do so.
The Muslim Members of the Military (MMM) organization hold their first. The conference took place at Bolling Air Force. Base in Washington DC. According to the Untied States Department of Defense, there are. Muslims in uniform on active duty in the military. Charles Bilal, Kountze, TX becomes the nation's first mayor in an American. Imam Warith Deen Mohammed gives the invocation in the Senate.
Abugideiri. June 1. A Century of Islam in America by Yvonne Y. Haddad, 1. 98. 6Ethnic Distribution of American Muslims and selected Socio.
Economic Characteristics by Arif Ghayrur, 1. The Demography of Islamic Nations by John Weeks, 1. Islam in the United States: Review of Sources by Dr. Abedin, 1. 98. 0World Population Data Sheet Population Reference Bureau, Inc. Department of. Commerce Bureau of the Census, 1. Muslim Peoples , A World Ethnographic Survey Edited by Richard V.