Tuesday, 11 September 2012

italian top judge imposimato: icc to investigate 911

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http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2012-September---Imposimato-letter.pdf

http://www.globalresearch.ca/president-of-italys-supreme-court-to-refer-911-crimes-to-international-criminal-court/

President of Italy’s Supreme Court To Refer 9/11 Crimes To International Criminal Court

Journal of 9/11 Studies

September 2012

Ferdinando Imposimato is the Honorary President of the Supreme Court of Italy and a
former Senator who served on the Anti-Mafia Commission in three administrations. He is
the author or co-author of seven books on international terrorism, state corruption, and
related matters, and a Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy.


The 9/11 attacks were a global state terror operation permitted by the administration of the USA, which had foreknowledge of the operation yet remained intentionally unresponsive in order to make war against Afghanistan and Iraq. To put it briefly, the 9/11 events were an instance of the strategy of tension enacted by political and economic powers in the USA to seek advantages for the oil and arms industries.

Italy too was a victim of the “strategia della tensione” of the CIA, enacted in Italy from the time of the Portella della Ginestra massacre in Sicily in 1947 until 1993.

There is much evidence of this strategy, both circumstantial and scientific.

The reports of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), November 20, 2005, set forth the following conclusions. The airplanes that struck each of the twin towers caused a breach as well as an explosion evidenced by a giant fireball. The remaining jet fuel flowed onto the lower floors, sustaining the fires. The heat from the fires deformed the building structures and both towers collapsed completely from top to bottom. Very little that was of any size remained after these events except steel as well as aluminum fragments and the pulverized dust from the concrete floors.

World Trade Center 7 also collapsed--in a way that was inconsistent with the common experience of engineers. The final NIST report claimed that the plane strikes against the twin towers were responsible for all three building collapses: WTC1, WTC2 and WTC7. All three buildings collapsed completely, but Building 7 was not hit by a plane. WTC7’s collapse violated common experience and was unprecedented.

The NIST report does not analyze the actual nature of the collapses. According to experts at the Toronto Hearings (Sept. 8-11, 2011), the collapses had features that indicate controlled explosions. I agree with architect Richard Gage and engineer Jon Cole, both highly experienced professionals, who have arrived at their conclusions through reliable tests, scientific proof, and the visual testimony of people above suspicion, including firefighters and victims. The authoritative theologian David Ray Griffin has described very precisely why the hypothesis of controlled demolition should be taken into consideration. Various witnesses heard bursts of explosions.

According to NIST the collapse of Building 7 was due to fires provoked by the collapse of the twin towers. Chemist and independent researcher Kevin Ryan, however, has demonstrated that NIST gave contradictory versions of the collapse of Building 7. In a preliminary report NIST declared that WTC7 was destroyed because of fires provoked by diesel fuel stored in the building, while in a second report this fuel was no longer considered the cause of the building’s collapse. Additional comments on the NIST version of events have been made by David Chandler, another expert witness at Toronto Hearings. Despite NIST’s claim of three distinct phases of collapse, Chandler pointed out that many available videos show that for about two and a half seconds the acceleration of the building cannot be distinguished from freefall. NIST has been obliged to agree with this empirical fact as pointed out by Chandler, and now understandable by everyone.

Peter Dale Scott, another witness at the Hearings, demonstrated that there was a systematic CIA pattern of withholding important information from the FBI, even when the FBI would normally be entitled to it. Furthermore, there is additional evidence against George Tenet and Tom Wilshire. According to the former White House chief of antiterrorism, Richard Clarke (interview given on French and German TV as part of a documentary by Fabrizio Calvi and Christopf Klotz, August 31, 2011 as well as the interview with Calvi and Leo Sisti, “il fatto quotidiano”, Aug. 30, 2011) the CIA was aware of the imminent attack of 9/11.

Moreover, since 1999 the CIA had investigated Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi, both Saudis who were associated with the American Airlines plane that hit the Pentagon. The CIA had been informed that Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hamzi had arrived in the USA in early 2000. It is legitimate to deduce that Tenet, chief of the CIA, and Wilshire, according to Peter Dale Scott a “key figure” in Alec Station blocked the efforts of two FBI agents—Doug Miller and Mark Rossini—to notify the FBI center that one of the participants in the Kuala Lumpur meeting, al-Mihdhar, got a US visa through the United States consulate in Jeddah. Professor Scott, basing himself on Kevin Fenton’s research, mentions 35 different occasions when the hijackers were protected in this fashion, from January of 2000 to September 5, 2001. With reference to the earlier of these incidents, the motive of this protection was evidently, according to Fenton, “to cover a CIA operation that was already in progress.”

Further circumstantial evidence against Tenet and Wilshire is the following. On July 12, 2001 Osama bin Laden was in American Hospital in Dubai. He was visited by a CIA agent. This information was given to Le Figaro, which also reported that bin Laden had been operated on in this hospital, having arrived from Quetta, Pakistan. This information was confirmed by Radio France International, which disclosed the name of the agent who met bin Laden—Larry Mitchell. Tenet and Wilshire, aware of the presence of bin Laden in the United Arab Emirates, failed to have him arrested and extradited, although FBI and CIA documents held him responsible for massacres in Kenya and Tanzania.

Insider trading is further strong evidence against the CIA, FBI and the US government. Articles by Professor Paul Zarembka, as well as by Kevin Ryan and others, prove such insider trading took place in the days immediately prior to the attacks. Yet this insider trading has been denied by the FBI and the 9/11 Commission.

Additional evidence against the CIA and the US administration is the following. Atta, at least since May 2000, was under CIA surveillance in Germany, according to the 9/11 Commission, both because he was accused since 1986 of attempts against Israel and because he had been surprised while purchasing great quantities of chemical products for use in explosives in Frankfurt (The Observer, Sept. 30, 2001). He was investigated by the Egyptian Secret Service and his cellular phone tapped. On November of 1999 Mohammed Atta left Hamburg, went to Karachi, Pakistan and then to Kandahar. Here he met bin Laden and Sheikh Omar Saeed (Homeland Security Global Security.org, “Movements of Mohammed Atta”). After June 2000 the USA continued to monitor Atta, intercepting his conversations with Sheikh Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considered the director of 9/11, who lived in Pakistan.

Strong evidence that the CIA was aware of Atta’s irregular movements from the USA to Europe and within the USA is the declassified CIA document sent by the Agency to G.W. Bush (President’s Daily Brief). This document, dated August 6, 2001, says: “Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US.” It continues:

“Clandestine, foreign government, and media reports indicate bin Laden since 1997 has wanted to conduct terrorist attacks in the United States. Bin Laden implied in U.S. television interviews in 1997 and 1998 that his followers would follow the example of World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, and ‘bring the fighting to America.’

After US missile strikes on his base in Afghanistan in 1998, bin Laden told followers he wanted to retaliate in Washington, according to a foreign intelligence service. An Egyptian Islamic Jihad operative told an agent of a foreign intelligence service at the same time that bin Laden was planning to exploit the operative’s access to the US to mount a terrorist strike….

A clandestine source said in 1998 that a bin Laden cell in New York was recruiting Muslim-American youth for attacks.

This document proves that the CIA, FBI, as well as President Bush, knew by August 6, 2001, who had operative access: Atta. No one enjoyed such access to the US as Atta. But the CIA, FBI and Bush did nothing to stop him.

I have collected in Italy evidence that the Iraq War was decided on by the U.S. government before the 9/11 attacks with the help of the Italian Secret Service. According to Michel Chossudovsky, the 9/11 attacks were used as a pretext for war, having had as background the many years of CIA creation of, and support for, the terrorist network now known as al Qaeda. Today there is a danger of a new “preventive war” against Iran by the USA. This could be terrible for the people of the world and could even destroy a large part of humanity.

The only possibility for achieving justice is to submit the best evidence concerning the involvement of specific individuals in 9/11 to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court and ask him to investigate according to the articles 12, 13, 15 and 17, letters a and b, of the Statute of the ICC, recalling also the preamble of the Statute:

Recognizing that such grave crimes threaten the peace, security and the well being of the world,
Affirming that the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole must not go unpunished and that their effective prosecution must be ensured by taking measures at the national level and by enhancing international cooperation,
Determined to put an end to impunity for the perpetrators of these crimes and
thus to contribute to the prosecution of such crimes,
Recalling that the duty of every state to exercise its jurisdiction over those
responsible for international crimes, …


Ferdinando Imposimato

Lawyers for 9/11 Truth Member to Refer 9/11 to International Criminal Court

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Imposimato: a 11 anni da quell'11 settembre: era Strategia della Tensione

di Ferdinando Imposimato

11 settembre 2012


Gli attentati dell'11/9 sono stati un'operazione globale di terrorismo di Stato consentita dall'amministrazione degli USA, che sapeva già dell’azione ma è rimasta intenzionalmente non reattiva al fine di fare la guerra contro l'Afghanistan e l'Iraq. Per dirla in breve, gli eventi dell'11/9 erano un caso di Strategia della Tensione messa in atto dai poteri politici ed economici negli Stati Uniti per perseguire vantaggi in capo all'industria petrolifera e delle armi.

Anche l'Italia è stata una vittima della "Strategia della Tensione" della CIA, attuata in Italia dai tempi della strage di Portella della Ginestra, in Sicilia, nel 1947, fino al 1993.

Ci sono molte prove di una tale strategia, sia circostanziali che scientifiche. Le relazioni del National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), del 20 novembre 2005, hanno sancito le conclusioni di seguito esposte.

Gli aerei che hanno colpito ciascuna delle torri gemelle hanno causato tanto una breccia quanto un'esplosione evidenziata da una gigantesca palla di fuoco. Il carburante rimanente fluiva verso i piani inferiori, alimentando gli incendi. Il calore degli incendi deformava le strutture degli edifici così che entrambe le torri sono crollate completamente da cima a fondo. Molto poco è rimasto di quanto era di qualsiasi dimensione dopo questi eventi, a parte i frammenti in acciaio e in alluminio e i detriti polverizzati provenienti dai pavimenti in cemento. Anche l’edificio 7 del World Trade Center crollò: lo fece in un modo che risultava in contrasto con l'esperienza comune degli ingegneri.

Il rapporto finale del NIST ha affermato che gli attacchi aerei contro le torri gemelle erano la causa dei crolli per tutti e tre gli edifici: WTC1, WTC2 e WTC7.

Tutti e tre gli edifici sono crollati completamente, ma l'edificio 7 non fu colpito da un aereo. Il crollo totale del WTC7 ha violato l'esperienza comune ed era senza precedenti.

Il rapporto del NIST non analizza la reale natura dei crolli. Secondo gli esperti intervenuti nel corso delle Udienze di Toronto (“Toronto Hearings”, 8-11 settembre 2011), i crolli avevano caratteristiche che indicano esplosioni controllate. Sono d'accordo con l’architetto Richard Gage e l’ingegnere Jon Cole, entrambi professionisti di grande esperienza, che sono arrivati alle loro conclusioni attraverso test affidabili, prove scientifiche, e la testimonianza visiva di persone insospettabili, tra cui i vigili del fuoco e le vittime.

L'autorevole teologo David Ray Griffin ha descritto con grande precisione perché l'ipotesi di demolizione controllata dovrebbe essere presa in considerazione. Vari testimoni hanno sentito raffiche di esplosioni.

Secondo il NIST il crollo dell'edificio 7 è stato causato da incendi provocati dal crollo delle torri gemelle. Il chimico e ricercatore indipendente Kevin Ryan, tuttavia, ha dimostrato che il NIST ha dato versioni contraddittorie del crollo dell'edificio 7. In un rapporto preliminare del NIST dichiarava che il WTC7 fu distrutto a causa di incendi provocati da gasolio conservato nel palazzo, mentre in una seconda relazione questo combustibile non era più considerato come la causa del crollo dell'edificio. Ulteriori commenti sulla versione degli eventi data dal NIST sono stati formulati da David Chandler, un altro testimone esperto intervenuto nel corso delle Udienze di Toronto. Nonostante la presunzione del NIST in merito a tre distinte fasi di crollo, Chandler ha sottolineato che molti video disponibili dimostrano che per circa due secondi e mezzo l'accelerazione dell’edificio non può essere distinta da una caduta libera. Il NIST è stato costretto a concordare con con questo fatto empirico come sottolineato da Chandler, e ora comprensibile per chiunque.

Peter Dale Scott, un altro testimone alle Udienze di Toronto, ha dimostrato l'esistenza di un modello d’azione sistematico della CIA volto a bloccare importanti informazioni nei confronti dell'FBI, anche quando l'FBI avrebbe normalmente diritto di ottenerle. Inoltre, ci sono ulteriori elementi di prova contro George Tenet e Tom Wilshire. Secondo l'ex capo dell’antiterrorismo della Casa Bianca, Richard Clarke (intervista rilasciata alla televisione francese e tedesca come parte di un documentario di Fabrizio Calvi e Christopf Klotz ,31 agosto 2011, nonché l'intervista con Calvi e Leo Sisti, "Il Fatto Quotidiano ", 30 agosto 2011) la CIA era a conoscenza dell’imminente attacco dell’11/9.

Inoltre, dal 1999 la CIA aveva indagato Khalid al-Mihdhar e Nawaf al-Hamzi, entrambi sauditi, che sono stati associati con l'aereo della American Airlines che ha colpito il Pentagono. La CIA era stata informata che Khalid al-Mihdhar e Nawaf al-Hamzi erano arrivati negli Stati Uniti all'inizio del 2000. È legittimo dedurre che Tenet, capo della CIA, e Wilshire, secondo Peter Dale Scott una "figura chiave" nella Alec Station, bloccarono gli sforzi di due agenti dell'FBI, Doug Miller e Mark Rossini, intesi a notificare al centro FBI che uno dei partecipanti alla riunione di Kuala Lumpur, al-Mihdhar, aveva ottenuto un visto USA attraverso il consolato degli Stati Uniti a Jeddah. Il professor Scott, basandosi sulla ricerca di Kevin Fenton, cita 35 occasioni in cui i dirottatori sono stati protetti in questo modo, a partire dal gennaio del 2000 al 5 settembre 2001. Con riferimento al precedente di questi incidenti, il motivo di questa protezione era evidentemente, secondo Fenton, «per coprire un'operazione della CIA che era già in corso.»

Ulteriore prova indiziaria contro Tenet e Wilshire è la seguente. Il 12 luglio 2001 Osama bin Laden si trovava nell’ospedale americano di Dubai. Fu visitato da un agente della CIA. Questa informazione è stata data a Le Figaro, che ha anche riferito che bin Laden era stato operato in questo ospedale, essendo arrivato da Quetta (Pakistan). Questa informazione è stata confermata da Radio France International, che ha rivelato il nome dell'agente che ha incontrato bin Laden: Larry Mitchell. Tenet e Wilshire, consapevoli della presenza di bin Laden negli Emirati Arabi Uniti, non sono riusciti a farlo arrestare né estradare, anche se i documenti dell'FBI e della CIA lo ritenevano responsabile di massacri in Kenya e Tanzania.

L'insider trading è una forte ulteriore prova contro la CIA, l’FBI e il governo degli Stati Uniti.

Gli articoli del professor Paul Zarembka, così come da Kevin Ryan e altri, dimostrano che tali casi di insider trading hanno avuto luogo nei giorni immediatamente precedenti rispetto agli attentati. Eppure questi casi di insider trading sono stati negati dall'FBI e dalla Commissione d’inchiesta sull’11/9.

Ulteriore prova contro la CIA e l'amministrazione degli Stati Uniti è la seguente. Mohammed Atta, almeno a partire dal maggio 2000, era sotto sorveglianza della CIA in Germania, secondo la Commissione sull’11/9, sia perché era accusato sin dal 1986 di attentati contro Israele, sia perché era stato sorpreso mentre acquistava grandi quantità di prodotti chimici per l'uso in esplosivi a Francoforte (The Observer, 30 settembre 2001). È stato indagato dal servizio segreto egiziano e il suo telefono cellulare era sotto controllo. Nel novembre del 1999 Mohammed Atta lasciò Amburgo, andò a Karachi, in Pakistan, e poi a Kandahar. Qui ha incontrato bin Laden e lo sceicco Omar Saeed (secondo la rivista specializzata in questioni di sicurezza interna GlobalSecurity.org, alla voce "Movements of Mohammed Atta"). Dopo giugno 2000 gli USA hanno continuato a monitorare Atta, intercettando le sue conversazioni con Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, considerato il regista del 9/11, che ha vissuto in Pakistan.

Una forte prova del fatto che la CIA era a conoscenza dei movimenti irregolari di Atta dagli Stati Uniti verso l'Europa e all’interno degli Stati Uniti è il documento declassificato della CIA inviato dall'Agenzia a G.W Bush (President’s Daily Brief – Ndt: “relazione breve giornaliera per il presidente”). Questo documento, del 6 agosto 2001, dice: «Bin Laden determinato a colpire in USA.» E continua: "relazioni di provenienza clandestina, di governi stranieri, e dei media indicano che bin Laden sin dal 1997 ha voluto condurre attacchi terroristici negli Stati Uniti. Bin Laden ha inteso in interviste a televisioni statunitensi nel 1997 e nel 1998 che i suoi seguaci avrebbero seguito l'esempio dell’attentatore del World Trade Center Ramzi Yousef, e avrebbero “portato i combattimenti in America”.»

Dopo gli attacchi missilistici degli Stati Uniti sulla sua base in Afghanistan nel 1998, bin Laden disse ai seguaci che voleva infliggere una rappresaglia a danno di Washington, secondo un servizio di intelligence straniero. Un membro operativo egiziano della Jihad islamica ha rivelato a un agente di un servizio segreto straniero, nel frattempo, che bin Laden aveva intenzione di sfruttare l'accesso operativo agli Stati Uniti per organizzare un attacco terroristico ...

Una fonte clandestina ha affermato nel 1998, che una cellula di bin Laden a New York stava reclutando giovani musulmani americani per gli attentati.

Questo documento dimostra che la CIA, l’FBI, così come il presidente Bush, conoscevano già dal 6 agosto 2001 chi aveva un accesso operativo: Atta. Nessuno ha goduto di un tale accesso negli Stati Uniti quanto Atta. Ma la CIA, l’FBI e Bush non hanno fatto nulla per fermarlo.

In Italia ho raccolto prove che la guerra in Iraq è stata decisa dal governo degli Stati Uniti prima degli attacchi dell'11/9 con l'aiuto dei servizi segreti italiani. Secondo Michel Chossudovsky, gli attacchi dell'11/9 sono stati usati come pretesto per la guerra, avendo avuto come sfondo i molti anni in cui si è avuta la creazione e il sostegno da parte della CIA della rete terroristica ora conosciuta come al-Qa’ida. Oggi c'è il pericolo di una nuova "guerra preventiva" contro l'Iran da parte degli Stati Uniti. Questo potrebbe essere terribile per la gente di tutto il mondo e potrebbe anche distruggere una gran parte dell'umanità.

L'unica possibilità per avere giustizia è quello di presentare le migliori prove relative al coinvolgimento di singoli individui nei fatti dell’11/9 al Procuratore della Corte penale internazionale chiedendogli di indagare in base agli articoli 12, 13, 15 e 17, lettere a e b, dello Statuto della Corte penale internazionale, ricordando anche il preambolo della Statuto:

  • Riconoscere che tali gravi reati minacciano la pace, la sicurezza e il benessere del mondo,
  • Affermare che i reati più gravi che sono motivo di allarme per la comunità internazionale nel suo insieme non debbano rimanere impuniti e che la loro repressione debba essere efficacemente garantita mediante provvedimenti adottati a livello nazionale ed attraverso il rafforzamento della cooperazione internazionale,
  • Essere determinati a porre fine all'impunità degli autori di tali crimini e quindi di contribuire al perseguimento di tali reati,
  • Ricordare il dovere di ogni Stato di esercitare la propria giurisdizione nei confronti dei responsabili di reati internazionali ...

Ferdinando Imposimato, settembre 2012.

Fonte: http://www.journalof911studies.com/resources/2012-September---Imposimato-letter.pdf.

Il testo in inglese è stato trascritto anche QUI.

Traduzione per Megachip a cura di Pino Cabras.

ferdinando imposimato megachFerdinando Imposimato è presidente onorario aggiunto della Suprema Corte di Cassazione ed ex senatore e deputato. A lungo ha fatto parte della Commissione bicamerale Antimafia.

Da magistrato ha istruito alcuni tra i più importanti processi sul terrorismo (il caso Aldo Moro, l'attentato al papa Giovanni Paolo II, il caso Bachelet). Ha scoperto la “pista bulgara” e altre connessioni terroristiche internazionali. Innumerevoli i processi contro mafia e camorra. Tra gli altri, ha istruito il caso Michele Sindona e il processo alla Banda della Magliana.

È autore o co-autore di sette libri sul terrorismo internazionale, la corruzione statale, e di questioni connesse, nonché Grand'Ufficiale dell'Ordine al merito della Repubblica Italiana.

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Imposimato sur Pandora TV : "11 Septembre : jusqu’à aujourd’hui aucun procès, aucune vérité. Nous, nous allons essayer."

publié sur Megachip, le 4 nov. 2011

Traduction GV pour ReOpenNews

Lors d’une interview effectuée par le journaliste et ex-député européen Giulietto Chiesa sur PandoraTV.it, le Président honoraire de la Cour de Cassation Ferdinando Imposimato confirme son intention de présenter une plainte devant la Cour pénale internationale de La Haye afin de pouvoir lancer un procès à charge contre les institutions qui ont contribué à la tragédie du 11 septembre 2001.

M. Imposimato avait déjà annoncé ce projet retentissant. Mais pratiquement aucun média ne s’en est fait l’écho jusqu’ici. Il en [a de nouveau] parlé à l’occasion de la conférence de presse [qui a réuni ZERO journalistes et ZERO parlementaires, hormis les 3 qui l’organisaient – NdT] le 3 novembre dernier, en compagnie de l’ex-sénateur US Mike Gravel, celui qui révéla devant le Congrès américain les Pentagon Papers, sorte de Wikileaks des années 60 concernant les secrets de la guerre du Vietnam.

Le magistrat italien a participé, en tant que juge d’instruction, aux procès d’affaires de terrorisme parmi les plus importantes de l’histoire italienne, comme celle de l’affaire Aldo Moro, ou de la tentative d’assassinat contre Jean-Paul II, révélant pour le coup l’interférence diffuse entre le terrorisme en Italie et les services secrets de différents pays, y compris ceux israéliens et russes.

Dans cette interview conduite par Giulietto Chiesa, Imposimato insiste sur l’insuffisance absolue des enquêtes officielles menées jusqu’à aujourd’hui sur les attentats du 11/9, sans aucun respect des règles « standards » communément appliquées lors des « Dual Process » anglo-saxons. Le magistrat évoque le cas de l’effondrement des Tours, au cours duquel ces dernières ce sont littéralement désintégrées en quelques secondes, un phénomène analysé officiellement uniquement par des agences spécialisées liées au gouvernement US, comme le National Institute of Standards & technology (NIST).

« Pour des cas comme celui-là – explique Imposimato – dans n’importe quel pays du monde, d’abord il y a un procès public, contre les responsables », autrement dit le vaste réseau des complices des présumés pirates. « Au cours de ce procès public, il faudrait donner la possibilité aux victimes, aux familles de victimes du 11/9, d’apporter leur contribution, leur savoir, au travers de leurs propres experts. Car d’après les règles du "Dual process of Law", qui ont été définies justement aux États-Unis, un pays de "Common Law", il ne faut pas que ces vérifications soient faites par une seule autorité, celle qui défend l’État, qui est potentiellement responsable de ces faits, mais qu’elles soient menées de façon contradictoire. D’un côté, vous avez l’expert du Ministère public, du prosecutor, et de l’autre vous avez l’expert nommé par les familles de victimes

Chiesa demande à Imposimato s’il ne lui semble pas étrange qu’à part le procès de Moussaoui – lequel n’a pas participé aux attentats puisque le 11 septembre 2001 il était en prison – aucun procès n’ait eu lieu concernant cette tragédie. « C’est l’indice d’une volonté de dissimuler les attentats qui ne s’est pas vue ailleurs dans le monde. » s’insurge Imposimato, qui ajoute : « nous ne pouvons pas accepter une vérité qui nous vient du NIST. » Dans la suite de l’entretien, Imposimato réduit en miettes, juriquement parlant, les bribes d’investigations menées jusqu’à maintenant, comme les « aveux » extorqués sous la torture au cerveau présumé des attentats, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, qui sont parfaitement inutilisables lors d’un procès, quel qu’il soit.

Le magistrat, auteur du livre «Terrorismo internazionale, la verità nascosta » (Koiné, 2002) (Terrorisme international, la vérité cachée) explique que les règles de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI) s’appliquent même aux pays qui n’ont pas ratifié la convention ni reconnu formellement sa juridiction : ce fut le cas, par exemple, pour la Libye de Kadhafi, et juridiquement parlant, c’est exactement la même chose pour l’Administration américaine. La plainte ne pourra donc pas être prise à la légère

TRANSCRIPT DE L’INTERVIEW DE FERDINANDO IMPOSIMATO par GIULIETTO CHIESA

Ferdinando Imposimato : En fait, je m’occupe du 11-Septembre depuis presque 11 ans. Paradoxalement, j’ai commencé à m’intéresser à la possibilité d’un attentat sur le territoire des États-Unis depuis 2000, pour la simple raison que j’avais lu dans plusieurs journaux ou documents des déclarations d’Oussama Ben Laden sur la possibilité d’un attentat sur le sol américain. Le 11 septembre 2001, je devais être aux USA, pour représenter une ONG qui s’occupe de lutte antidrogue, mais je n’y suis pas allé parce que je craignais que ne se produise précisément ce genre d’événement. Ça avait été annoncé plusieurs fois, je ne suis pas magicien, j’étudie simplement les indices et finalement je n’y suis pas allé. Je suis surpris que la Commission qui a enquêté sur les faits du 11/9, l’une des 2 commissions, ait dit que ces attentats furent une surprise. Comment peuvent-ils dire que ce fut une surprise si moi, modeste juge, ex-juge d’instruction du Tribunal de Rome, j’ai pu avoir cette sensation à partir des éléments qui émergeaient publiquement, et eux parlent de surprise, au moment où les autorités US avaient reçu une multitude d’informations qui laissaient entrevoir un attentat de ce type.

Giulietto Chiesa : Vous dites qu’il y a eu "Participation active à une tragédie" d’une partie des autorités.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Les faits sont les suivants : la CIA savait pertinemment que Mohammed Atta préparait des attentats, et la CIA suivait et surveillait Atta depuis 1998 en Allemagne, à Hambourg. Même la Commission reconnait ce fait. La CIA a pisté Mohammed Atta, au moyen d’écoutes téléphoniques en Allemagne jusqu’au 2 juin 2000. Mohammed Atta part alors de Hambourg pour Venice (Floride), et commence son entrainement à l’école de pilotage Huffman.

Ici, il faut évoquer une série de faits qui se sont produits : Mohammed Atta ne possédait pas de visa en règle de type M1, ce qu’il aurait dû avoir. Il a obtenu un visa du Consulat de Djeddah (Émirats Arabes Unis), lequel était géré par la CIA, comme l’ont dit plusieurs témoins. Donc la CIA contrôlait parfaitement toutes les personnes qui délivraient les visas. Cela constitue le "vice" de cette affaire, car au consulat de Djeddah, ont été fournis des visas et des passeports qui n’auraient pas dû l’être, puisqu’ils concernaient des terroristes qui avaient déjà été signalés comme terroristes par l’Arabie Saoudite. Ces individus sont partis en janvier 2001, le 15 janvier 2001, pour Los Angeles. La CIA le savait pertinemment, puisque c’est elle qui avait délivré les visas, vu qu’elle est présente au consulat de Djeddah, pourtant, la CIA n’a pas averti le FBI.

Giulietto Chiesa : Dr. Imposimato, excusez-moi, mais non seulement la CIA savait, mais le FBI savait aussi, puisque selon l’enquête officielle numéro 1, qui était secrète, mais que nous commençons à mieux connaître, ces documents sont parvenus à la 2e Commission, la Commission officielle sur le 11/9, et que mis à part Mohammed Atta, deux autres terroristes ont habité pendant 10 mois, à partir du 15 janvier 2001, à San Diego en Californie, chez un agent du FBI, Abdus Sattar Shaikh De plus, ils ont reçu de l’argent d’un autre agent du FBI, al-Bayoumi.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Attention, il faut faire la distinction. Certains agents du FBI ont dénoncé ces faits. L’un d’eux est Kenneth Williams, qui est cité dans le livre de Jesse Ventura. Il faut lire attentivement ces documents, dans lesquels il est écrit que des agents ont fait leur devoir en avertissant le siège. Le chef du FBI était alors Robert Mueller, je crois. Et bien, il existe une règle de droit internationale qui dit que si une autorité a connaissance d’actes qui sont sur le point de se produire, et qu’elle n’agit pas pour les empêcher, cette autorité, cette personne, ce sujet "participe" aux attentats. C’est écrit dans le Code pénal italien, article 40.

Ne pas empêcher un acte que le devoir demande d’empêcher équivaut à le perpétrer. Article 40 du Code pénal italien. On retrouve cette règle dans le Code pénal fédéral des États-Unis, qui parle de « causes », et qui s’applique aussi bien à la participation active qu’à celle par omission.

Tout cela en considérant la meilleure des hypothèses, à savoir que la CIA savait, mais n’a rien fait pour empêcher l’événement. Il faut aussi examiner, approfondir, une autre hypothèse, celle où la CIA aurait soutenu activement ces terroristes, car elle les a aidés en leur fournissant des visas alors qu’elle n’aurait pas dû, puisqu’il s’agissait de personnes déjà soupçonnées de terrorisme, et en leur permettant de demeurer sur le territoire des USA et de s’entrainer dans les écoles de pilotage, et là c’est un comportement actif. Nous avons donc d’un côté un comportement par omission, pour ne pas avoir empêché les attentats, bien qu’ils aient su à l’avance, et d’autre part un comportement actif, par la délivrance des visas, mais aussi par le financement de Mohamed Atta et des autres, à travers un certain Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, un individu bien connu de la CIA, un citoyen anglais qui était en contact avec l’ISI, les services secrets pakistanais, et le chef de l’ISI est précisément celui qui, d’après des informations provenant du FBI, aurait ordonné, le chef de l’ISI à ce Sheikh Omar, le versement de 120.000 dollars à Mohammed Atta.

Un an avant l’attaque contre les Tours Jumelles, [Atta] aurait reçu cette somme par l’intermédiaire d’une banque située aux Émirats arabes unis. Ceci est un fait reconnu, et qui a mené à la démission du chef de l’ISI. Mais d’après le Code pénal de n’importe quel pays, cette personne aurait dû être inculpée ! pour "complicité de crime". La connaissance du financement par le chef de l’ISI imposait à toute autorité judiciaire dans le monde d’inculper le chef de l’ISI de "complicité de crime", de "complicité morale".

Ce ne sont que des exemples pour montrer que sur ces faits, il fallait, et il faut investiguer, car ce sont des faits qui exigent une enquête de la part des autorités judiciaires américaines. Si ces autorités ne font pas cette enquête, quelqu’un d’autre devra le faire à leur place.

Giulietto Chiesa : Je voudrais vous poser une question : pourquoi selon vous la Commission sur le 11/9 n’a pratiquement pas abordé ces points.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Il y a visiblement eu une volonté de dissimuler ces faits extrêmement embarrassants. Je ne parle pas d’accusations génériques contre toute l’administration américaine, ou contre l’Amérique, je parle de faits précis qui concernent des personnes dans les hautes sphères de la CIA, et du chef du FBI. Car le chef du FBI a été régulièrement informé par des rapports envoyés les 6 juillet, 10 juillet, 15 juillet, 6 août par de courageux et loyaux agents du FBI. Et aucune suite n’a été donnée à ces informations.

Giulietto Chiesa : Bien. Vous faites référence aux 3 Tours détruites ce matin-là. Enfin, 2 le matin, frappées par les avions, et l’autre l’après-midi, sans qu’aucun avion ne la percute. Il me semble avoir compris que vous croyez à une certaine préparation qui irait au-delà de l’activité de supposés terroristes, car pour faire s’effondrer les Tours en les minant à l’avance, il faut que quelqu’un l’ait fait, et ce ne sont pas les terroristes qui ont pu faire cela.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Je ne suis pas un scientifique, et pour ces aspects, le juge, le Ministère public (prosecutor) doit s’en remettre à un scientifique. Il ressort de l’analyse faite par ces scientifiques, il apparait clairement qu’il est impossible qu’un bâtiment doté de structures métalliques, extrêmement robustes, dans une partie au moins de l’édifice, puisse se désagréger et s’effondrer en quelques secondes. J’ai moi-même vu tomber cette tour, et qui se désintégrait en quelques secondes. Car cela est en contradiction avec la présence d’une structure en acier à l’intérieur.

Alors pour moi, dans ces cas-là, dans n’importe quel pays du monde, d’abord il y a un procès public, contre les responsables, Moussaoui, le chef de l’ISI, contre ceux qui sont identifiés comme complices des [pirates] qui sont morts. Au cours de ce procès public, il faudrait donner la possibilité aux victimes, aux familles de victimes du 11/9, d’apporter leur contribution, leur savoir, au travers de leurs propres experts. Car d’après les règles du "Dual process of Law" qui ont été définies justement aux États-Unis, un pays de "Common Law", il ne faut pas que ces vérifications soient faites par une seule autorité, celle qui défend l’État, qui est potentiellement responsable de ces faits, mais qu’elles soient menées de façon contradictoire. D’un côté, on a l’expert du Ministère public, du prosecutor, et de l’autre vous avez l’expert nommé par les familles de victimes.

Giulietto Chiesa : Vous ne trouvez pas bizarre que durant ces 10 années, à part le procès Moussaoui qui n’a pas participé aux attentats puisqu’il était en prison, aucun procès n’ait eu lieu aux USA, personne n’a été jugé.

Ferdinando Imposimato : C’est très surprenant, et c’est surtout l’indice d’une volonté de dissimuler les attentats qui ne s’est pas vue ailleurs dans le monde. D’après moi, il faudrait un procès public aux États-Unis, pour donner la possibilité aux parties intéressées, sans parler du recours collectif qui peut s’appliquer à tous les citoyens, mais surtout pour permettre aux familles de victimes de connaitre la vérité, qui n’est pas celle officielle. Car nous ne pouvons pas accepter une vérité qui nous vient du NIST.

Giulietto Chiesa : Laissez-moi vous poser une question sur l’aspect juridique. Quelle est la valeur des témoignages de ces personnes qui ont été, comme Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, soumises à de multiples séances de "Waterboarding" ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : Aucune valeur.

Giulietto Chiesa : Même aux USA ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : Oui, même aux USA, car il existe des règles universelles sur le procès juste. Rappelez-vous que les USA ont signé des conventions internationales, j’en citerai une : Le pacte international des droits civils et politiques, signé à New York en décembre 1966, a été ratifié par les USA. Dans cette convention, les USA s’engagent à respecter les règles du "procès juste", de respecter les témoins, les accusés, et si l’on force quelqu’un et que cela porte atteinte à la crédibilité d’une version, d’un témoin, qui ne parle pas spontanément, qui collabore avec la justice, mais de façon forcée et non spontanée, cette collaboration n’a pas de valeur, d’autant que cette collaboration s’est faite hors de toute présence des défenseurs des parties civiles. Ce témoignage n’a absolument aucune valeur.

Giulietto Chiesa : Nous sommes à 1000 lieues de cela, puisque les deux coprésidents de la Commission d’enquête ont écrit un livre où ils expliquent qu’ils n’ont rien vu de ces interrogatoires, et même la Commission d’enquête n’a pas eu accès ni aux enregistrements, ni les procès-verbaux de l’interrogatoire. Et donc, c’est le noir le plus total.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Oui, mais il est possible de mettre tout cela au clair. D’abord parce que le secret d’État, par rapport à des faits relevant d’une tragédie, ne peut pas être utilisé. Ceci est une règle universelle qui vaut pour l’Italie, pour les États-Unis. Et donc, il n’est pas possible d’invoquer le secret d’État pour empêcher la divulgation de documents cruciaux pour l’enquête

Giulietto Chiesa : Même aux USA ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : Oui, même aux USA. Car cela s’applique à la sécurité, mais quelle sécurité ? Nous parlons ici de la nécessité de savoir la vérité sur des faits qui ont vu la mort de 3000 personnes. Le secret d’État doit être écarté, d’abord parce qu’il est anticonstitutionnel et contraire aux conventions internationales. Ensuite, le statut de la Cour pénale internationale (CPI, ci-contre) établit des règles qui selon moi s’appliquent à tous les pays, même ceux qui ne l’ont pas signé.

Giulietto Chiesa : Selon vous, pourquoi est-ce que l’administration Obama, qui est arrivée après l’administration Bush qui est mise en cause dans cette tragédie, n’a-t-elle rien fait pour éclaircir cette affaire ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : D’après moi, il y a d’abord le problème qu’il n’est pas bien informé sur le sujet. Car les gens ont pratiqué la désinformation. Ici il y a eu une opération continue de désinformation. Car si vous regardez ce qui s’est passé après le 11-Septembre, à propos du Nigergate(*), vous vous rendez compte que cette affaire du Nigergate, consistant à construire toute une série de mensonges éhontés pour justifier de l’intervention armée en Irak, on la doit à la désinformation pratiquée par certains journaux, et à certains journalistes, comme Judith Miller, ou d’autres journaux, le Washington Post, le New York Times, et malheureusement aussi La Repubblica, qui a écrit avant même le début de la guerre en mars 2003, des choses qu’elle a dû démentir par la suite. Quand on a découvert tous ces mensonges, après la guerre, c’était devenu inutile… D’abord, ils ont alimenté la théorie de la nécessité de la guerre préventive, ensuite il y a eu la guerre, et seulement après ils ont reconnu leur erreur, mais c’était inutile. Et puis la guerre a continué pendant 7 ans.

Giulietto Chiesa : …et encore aujourd’hui

Ferdinando Imposimato : Alors, selon moi, Obama n’a pas une connaissance parfaite, car même Obama ne sait pas tout, il lit les journaux. J’ai moi-même lu les articles dans le Corriere della Sera, de personnages qui sont venus en Italie pour théoriser la nécessité de la guerre préventive. Et cela a mené à une désinformation totale, car nos journaux se sont prêtés au jeu, et ont servi de caisse de résonance aux fausses informations diffusées aux USA.

Giulietto Chiesa : Mais quand le Secrétaire d’État Collin Powell, devant le conseil de Sécurité de l’ONU, déclare en public "nous avons les preuves" et montre une fiole noire en disant "nous avons les preuves que Saddam Hussein a des armes de destruction massive", n’est pas aussi une sorte de crime ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : C’est à mi-chemin entre la stupidité et la mauvaise foi. On ne sait pas bien, car ce n’est pas une flèche ce Colin Powell. J’opterais plus pour la stupidité que pour la mauvaise foi, car on ne dit pas comme ça qu’on a les preuves… Bush lui-même a déclaré, après la guerre, qu’il s’agissait d’une erreur. Ce n’était pas une erreur. C’était préparé. Et une dernière chose, extrêmement grave. Lors de l’instruction menée par la Commission sur le 11/9, il est mentionné que la CIA a établi un lien entre le 11-Septembre et Saddam Hussein. Ceci est un mensonge éhonté qui a été démenti par cette même commission, mais cela signifie que la CIA a tenté de construire ce lien pour attribuer la responsabilité à Saddam Hussein, et pour justifier la guerre. Alors, comme vous le voyez, on ne peut pas regarder de façon isolée les faits du 11/9. il faut regarder ce qui s’est passé avant, et après.

Giulietto Chiesa : Entièrement d’accord, aucun doute là-dessus. Résumons : vous vous proposez de porter ces faits à l’attention de la Cour pénale internationale de La Haye. Cela m’amène à deux questions : d’abord, les États-Unis ne reconnaissent pas la "territorialité", l’intervention de ce tribunal sur les affaires internes aux USA. Il y a eu bien sûr des implications internationales gigantesques. Juste après le 11/9, les USA ont demandé une réunion de l’OTAN, qui a eu lieu le 1er octobre 2001, et les États-Unis se sont présentés à Bruxelles en disant "nous avons les preuves". Or ces preuves n’ont jamais été rendues publiques. Et donc, c’est aussi une affaire européenne. Cela s’est passé en Europe dans le cadre de l’Alliance atlantique, avec une affirmation qui n’a pas été suivie de faits. Reste le point sur lequel je voudrais insister : La Cour pénale internationale de La Haye, que peut-elle faire, et selon vous, comment pourrait-elle réagir à une initiative de ce type qui a des répercussions mondiales, puisque l’histoire de ces 10 dernières années, si vous avez raison, et je pense que c’est le cas, doit être entièrement réexaminée.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Alors, nous avons le droit et le devoir de connaître la vérité, car ce qui s’est produit le 11-Septembre ne concerne pas seulement les USA, cela concerne l’humanité tout entière. Car, de cet événement, sont nées deux guerres. Et cela a déclenché la crise mondiale que nous vivons, qui a pris ses racines dans les événements du 11/9. Ce n’est donc pas une affaire qui relève de la curiosité historique et basta, c’est une obligation pour éviter que ne se produisent d’autres guerres préventives de ce genre, car ce risque existe bel et bien. Donc, nous avons le devoir de demander, et nous l’avons fait officieusement, aux autorités américaines d’enquêter sur ces faits précis. Si les autorités US ne font rien, comme je le crains, nous devrons nous adresser à La Haye, à la Cour pénale internationale de La Haye. Cette Cour, peut selon moi, et selon l’usage, intervenir même à l’encontre de pays qui n’ont pas ratifié les statuts de la Cour pénale internationale. Par exemple, Kadhafi n’a pas signé ces statuts, pourtant ils ont lancé un mandat d’arrêt contre lui. Cela montre bien que la Cour pénale internationale n’a pas besoin de la ratification d’un pays pour intervenir à son encontre. Si la CPI a pu lancer ce mandat d’arrêt contre Kadhafi, le chef d’un État qui n’était pas signataire des statuts, cela signifie que la CPI peut intervenir, et c’est logique. Car il existe des pays où les droits humains sont violés, où sont commis des crimes contre l’humanité, sur lesquels la CPI est compétente comme le stipule l’article 7 des statuts. Et bien, lorsque de tels crimes sont commis, la CPI peut intervenir, même par la force, pour réprimer ces crimes. Par conséquent, même si l’Amérique n’a pas ratifié les statuts de la CPI, cela ne constitue pas un obstacle à l’affirmation de la juridiction de la CPI vis-à-vis des États-Unis. Bien sûr, c’est un pays démocratique, très puissant, mais les règles sont ce qu’elles sont. Je voudrais d’ailleurs rappeler une chose. Il y a eu récemment la dénonciation par un citoyen contre le Vatican. Le Vatican n’a pas ratifié non plus [ces statuts]. Et donc, la CPI, après avoir procédé à toutes les vérifications, recueilli et évalué toutes les preuves, peut tout à fait intervenir même dans les pays dans lesquels la justice n’est pas assurée, lorsque se produit une violation des droits humains, et les juger pour crimes contre l’humanité.

Giulietto Chiesa : Comment comptez-vous procéder techniquement vis-à-vis du tribunal, et quelles sont les possibles réactions "techniques", et pas seulement politiques que le tribunal est tenu de suivre ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : Nous allons nous adresser au Procureur de la CPI et lui remettre notre plainte la plus documentée possible, dans laquelle nous exposerons les faits, qui selon nous constituent une complicité de crime contre l’humanité, complicité active ou complicité par omission, et nous lui demanderons d’approfondir, de vérifier les faits, en écoutant les témoins que nous lui indiquerons, en examinant les documents, et en exigeant l’abolition du Secret d’État, puisque nous-mêmes n’avons pas eu accès à ces documents, tout comme la Commission. En somme, mener une instruction complète, afin d’établir s’il existe des éléments pour condamner, ou du moins pour juger les personnes responsables de ces faits.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Nous avons les idées claires. Nous voulons rassembler le maximum de données, de documents, de toute provenance, y compris de la presse sérieuse et responsable, et d’organismes officiels d’investigation. Et même de livres comme celui de Jesse Ventura, mais aussi des enquêtes. etc. Nous allons recueillir toutes les preuves et les indices pouvant être utiles pour reconstruire la dynamique des événements, et aussi les responsabilités de ceux qui avaient le devoir d’intervenir et qui ne l’ont pas fait, ou de ceux qui ont aidé les terroristes à accomplir les attentats du 11/9.

Giulietto Chiesa : Combien de temps peut prendre la réponse ? Y a-t-il un délai maximum ?

Ferdinando Imposimato : Non, pas de délai maximum. Ce n’est pas un délit contre une personne qui peut être poursuivie pour querelle partisane. Ce crime contre l’humanité, le 11-Septembre, comme d’autres, est un crime imprescriptible. Il peut être dénoncé à tout moment. Nous devons d’abord réunir tous ces documents, puis il faudra les trier, car on ne peut pas donner tout cela d’un seul coup, et enfin nous déposerons cette plainte que je signerai, en demandant à tous ceux qui voudront signer avec moi de le faire, après l’avoir lue, examinée, validée. Et donc, d’ici quelques mois, nous irons déposer cette plainte.

Giulietto Chiesa : Merci beaucoup.

Ferdinando Imposimato : Merci à vous.



Monday, 27 August 2012

criminal scientific dishonesty and nuclear power

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http://candobetter.net/node/2744

 January 20th, 2012

Scientific dishonesty and nuclear power


This article is based on the talk by Dr. Chris Busby about scientific dishonesty in nuclear issues at the Royal Society in London last November. Please also see the video of the talk -- There is also a Powerpoint presentation.

Dishonesty and the Science Policy Interface
Dr Christopher Busby


There is a problem I want to draw to the attention of those who watch the world and the antics of those who run it. It is a problem that has exercised my mind for some time, one that I came to as a result of my interest in the health effects of low dose radiation. I have written about my researches and discoveries in this area (Busby 1995, 2006) and most recently about the health effects of uranium weapons (Busby UNIDIR 2009). But as I conducted my naïve enquiries in these areas of science, it dawned on me quite early on, that there was a dangerous gap between what the politicians and those who ran the show believed (or said they believed) and the facts, if I may (also naïvely) call them that. In 2003 I was asked to become the leader of the Science Policy Interface group of an EU funded outfit, the Policy Information Network on Child Health and the Environment (PINCHE). Here I met a wide range of eminent research scientists and doctors from across Europe, and in the meetings we had, we discussed the ways in which science is translated into policy, a subject that I had studied and seen in the area of radiation risk. I think I was chosen for this position because of my experience in the area and my cynicism. I certainly used it to ensure that the final report made clear to the EU Commissioners (van den Hazel et al. 2006) that there was a bias at the Science Policy Interface that needed putting right (in case they didn’t already know, that is). I wrote about all this at some length in my book Wolves of Water. What I want to do here is to try and take the issue further. I base this essay on the presentation I made at the Royal Society London in October 2007 where I was asked by Roger Coghill to dish the dirt on this area of science and policy based on some of my experiences. 

Let me begin by saying that those who think that there is a conspiracy to exclude the truth in various areas associated with environmental risk are quite correct. There is. Quite how it works I am not so sure about even in the quite well-defined cases I will present here. Why do those who are key figures act like they do? I think that probably there are many factors; financial, cultural, legal, psychological and economic among them. Also fear: in the Committee Examining Radiation Risk of Internal Emitters (CERRIE) committee members were threatened with personal litigation and they subsequently changed their position and voted in the opposite direction (CERRIE 2004b). There are certainly dirty tricks. What I have noticed is that very often the individuals I find at the centre of some questionable or dishonest behaviour are people from what I call a subordinate culture, people who have been poor in their childhood, people from the colonies who want to belong or to be important, from poor areas of the country, people who didn’t go to the best universities, people who have some reason to tie their psychological security to their position, a position, usually a key position, handed to them by government. They are so grateful and so fearful! I guess a lot of politicians are like that: why else would you wish to be a politician? The selective filtering of personality types into power is an interesting area in itself and one that essentially makes a nonsense of democracy.
But the end result is that because of their behaviour, scientific evidence is ignored or marginalised or alternatively incorrect scientific evidence is used as a basis for policy. Often, in fact usually, such policy is necessary for the well being of some powerful industry or group, or the military. An excellent and well known example is that of BSE/CJD, Mad Cow disease. We all know that the government committee that considered the scientific arguments that the disease could infect humans discounted experimental evidence and made wrong decisions that led to the deaths of many people. I note that no-one has been put in court for this and no industrial company manufacturing the poisoned animal feedstuffs has been fined. Interestingly, the Chair of that committee, Sir Richard Southwood, was also Chair of the National Radiological Protection Board for many years, including the period of Chernobyl. He was wrong there too. But he is not in gaol. And the scientists on that committee who were responsible, should they not be at least accused of scientific dishonesty, of some crime? Let me put this in another context. If there is a murder and the murderer is in the dock and a witness is called who swears that the murderer is innocent and does not refer to evidence which he has that the murderer is guilty: is not such a person guilty of a crime? I am going to present some cases to you that I have personal experience of. I am going to leave it to you to decide whether these people were dishonest or just stupid or maybe culturally biased, by which I mean, they honestly thought that they knew what the real picture was and could discount evidence which for some defensible reason they disagreed with. But whatever the decision you come to in each case, I want you to be aware that as a result of these actions, policies and laws remain in place that have resulted in and will result in the deaths of millions of people. This is not an exaggeration. The death yield from the radioactive contamination permitted by the behaviour of such people is in excess of 60 million (ECRR2003) and this issue is the greatest public health scandal of history. Much is said and written about Hitler and the gas chambers. The systematic poisoning of the human race by novel radioactive pollution and now by uranium particles makes the World War II death yields seem quite mild.
Ideally democracy depends upon the policymakers having the best knowledge of the consequences of their decisions. Research has shown that politicians are generally scientifically illiterate and therefore have to depend upon scientific expert committees to obtain this knowledge. Membership of these committees is not democratic and this introduces bias. Scott Cato, Bramhall and Busby: I don’t know much about Science, 2000). Scientific committees depend upon peer-review literature and ignore grey literature. They also often ignore peer-review literature if it does not conform to some pre-existing belief. Their interpretation of the literature is always biased by their affiliations. (Ruden 2000, 2001, 2003. PINCHE 2005, Judson, 2006). Peer-review literature itself is often biased by the affiliation of the researchers, and the affiliations of the reviewer or the editor. In addition, peer-review literature may be biased by the choice of the research topic (therefore who funds the research). Peer review literature may in fact be so brushed and spun as to approach dishonesty; it may have false data and indeed be dishonest. There is currently no law against such dishonesty or biased advice and culprits are not seen as criminals nor are they punished in any way in the UK. There is currently no such thing as a Scientific Crime and in my view there should be.
How could scientific dishonesty be criminal? How do we judge scientists? What ethical framework can apply? In British Courts, evidence given in a case affects the outcome. For this reason, witnesses have to swear an oath to tell the Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth. If they are later found to have lied they can be prosecuted and gaoled. I submit that in the present system of Science and Policy, Society should apply the same argument. Scientists, because of the serious and real consequences of their evidence on human health, have the same responsibility as a witness in a criminal case.

Let me list some examples:

1. Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy; BSE/CJD; Here an expert committee ignored scientists (e.g. Prof. Richard Lacey) who brought evidence that the agent crossed species barriers; many died. Chair was Sir Richard Southwood.

2. Chernobyl; National Radiological Protection Board (NRPB) and the infant leukemias; After Chernobyl NRPB advised that Cs-137 contamination of upland areas (Wales, Cumbria Yorkshire) was at safe levels and would clear in weeks (Chair Sir Richard Southwood); areas are still under sheep restriction today. Children died of leukemia. Adult cancer rates increased; the cancer registry falsified figures (see Wolves of Water).

3. Trichloroethylene carcinogenicity and the EU; Christina Ruden, a philosopher from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, showed in three papers how biased arguments advanced by scientists working for industry delayed the classification of TCE as a carcinogen by 5 years or more. Many will have died because adequate limits were not put in place (see PINCHE reports).

4. Radioactive pollution and cancer; following the Sellafield child leukemia cluster discovered in 1983 by Yorkshire TV there was a high-level cover up of the effects of low dose internal radiation exposure involving Committee on the Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE), The Small Areas Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), CERRIE and, as it applied to Uranium weapons, the Royal Society. Hundreds of thousands have died or are sick. The evidence has not been translated into policy due to scientific bias.

5. Mobile phones and cancer; this issue is current and as a consequence of scientific bias and dishonesty a very large number of people will become sick and die. 

6. The Royal Society and Depleted Uranium
Prof. Brian Spratt FRS and Prof William Bonfield FRS, who I will present below.
At the Royal Society meeting, I gave examples of a number of scientists whose actions and publications were questionable, and I invited the audience to consider them in the context of scientific dishonesty. My accusations were not new. I had put the stories in my book Wolves of Water which I wrote principally to draw attention to the failures of science, or rather the way in which science was being used to ensure the survival of industry and the military in a democratic society whose members were being systematically poisoned. 

In this brief essay I will concentrate on four of the stories that I presented to give a flavour of the kind of problem that we face. I will look at Professor Dudley Goodhead and the CERRIE committee, at Professor Ray Cartwright the epidemiologist, Professor Sarah Darby and the late Professor Richard Doll, both epidemiologists, and at the Royal Society, Professors Brian Spratt and William Bonfield.

Prof Dudley Goodhead
Goodhead, a South African originally from Durban, became head of the Medical Research Council radiation biology group at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment Harwell. In 2001 he was appointed Chair of the Committee Examining Radiation Risks from Internal Emitters CERRIE.
CERRIE was founded in 2001 by Michael Meacher, the Environment Minister to examine concerns raised by me and my colleagues about cancer near the Irish Sea, near nuclear sites and in infants in Europe after Chernobyl. Goodhead initially agreed to, and arranged for, joint epidemiological studies on ward level cancer near the Bradwell nuclear site to be carried out by Chris Busby, Colin Muirhead (NRPB) and Richard Wakeford (BNFL). The team would examine ward level data obtained from the Office for National Statistics by the committee to confirm the high levels of breast cancer reported by Busby in studies by Green Audit (but denied by the government’s Small Area Health Statistics Unit, SAHSU) near the radioactive contaminated estuary of the River Blackwater. In 2004, after Meacher had been sacked by Tony Blair, Goodhead shut down the project despite the protocols having been agreed at several meetings of the CERRIE epidemiology sub-committee. This is because by then it was clear that the government SAHSU studies of the issue were seriously flawed by mistakes in omission of ward populations. In addition Goodhead also cancelled the joint study on childhood leukemia by age of mother which would have investigated the effect on the disease of weapons fallout in the 1960s. Furthermore, Goodhead blocked the inclusion in the final CERRIE report of a section outlining dissent from the majority views despite having agreed under Meacher to include such views. He did this by threatening the individual committee members with legal action of they allowed any dissenting views to be included in the final report. He presented what were said to be two legal opinions from departmental (i.e government) lawyers. He tabled them at the last meeting thus denying committee members any opportunity to consider them in advance or to take independent advice. Both opinions indicated, vaguely but threateningly, that including misleading or factually wrong material in the final report might result in individual committee members being sued. This was enough to frighten members into voting to exclude the oppositional section from the final report, as the original founding remit demanded. Our own legal advisers later advised us that the opinions were absurd, but by then it was too late. Thus the entire purpose of the CERRIE committee was nullified, all that work and money wasted. Goodhead received an OBE shortly before changing his position on the outcome of the final report. He was accused of scientific bias in a letter (which I have published in Busby 2005) by one member of his own secretariat, Marion Hill, who resigned over the issue. The second member of the three person secretariat, Dr Paul Dorfman, joined with me and my colleague Richard Bramhall to produce and publish an independent CERRIE Minority Report (CERRIE 2004b)

Prof Ray Cartwright
Ultimately Director of Epidemiology of the Cancer Research Campaign, Cartwright, as a researcher, was co-author of a study in 1990 showing a link between man-made radiation in estuaries (e.g. from the Sellafield reprocessing plant) and child leukemia. He was soon promoted to Director and then later was put in charge of the United Kingdom Childhood Cancer Research study, a 16 million pound project to discover the cause of the increases in childhood cancer in the UK. This money came from the government but also from charities, and from ordinary people who put their hands in their pockets after seeing the pictures of the dying children. One of the initial questions to be asked by this study was about radiation exposure, and since Cartwright had clear evidence that this might be a possible cause he should have included it in the study. He did not. In a letter to Busby in 1994 he stated that the research would not look at man-made radionuclides (i.e. from nuclear power, from Sellafield, or from weapons fallout). After the study was completed in 1999 
he was questioned in an open meeting by Richard Bramhall of the Low level Radiation Campaign (LLRC) about his 1990 estuary study and why he did not use the results to inform the protocol of the UKCCR study. He replied that it was because he had done a second further study which showed no effect and disagreed with his first study. When challenged to produce it over the next year, he could not. It turned out that it was a lie. A formal complaint was sent by LLRC to the British Medical Association General Medical Council. They investigated and discovered that no such study existed, although in the mean time Cartwright rapidly produced a thesis by one of his students, Frances Lloyd that he argued showed there was no effect. This study was so flawed as to laughable, and was dismissed by the CERRIE committee. Cartwright was asked by the BMA to apologise for misleading the public and he eventually did apologise to LLRC in a letter. The fact remains that the 16 million pound UKCCR childhood leukemia study omitted examining the most likely cause of the increases in childhood cancer because the director pointed the study in the wrong direction, whilst already having evidence from his own research what the cause (or a cause) was. At one point during this period Cartwright was on the Organising Committee of the British Nuclear Energy Society. He certainly became very important as the epidemiology head of the Cancer Research Campaign, he will have earned a lot of money, been feted, been on a fat salary. Is that an explanation?

Prof Sarah Darby
Although not a member of the initial CERRIE committee Sarah Darby was brought in by Goodhead as an ‘independent’ epidemiologist. Darby was famously the main author of at least two seriously flawed radiation studies, both with the late Prof Sir Richard Doll, who himself was recently reported to have been compromised in his epidemiology by financial links with industry.
The first study was the Nordic Leukemia Study, published in the British Medical Journal in 1993 (see reference in reference section below) around the time of the Sellafield child leukemia trial Reay and Hope vs BNFL. This is covered in some length in my book Wolves of Water (pp.305-321). Briefly, the authors spliced together data from different cancer registries in different periods to argue that there was no significant increase in child leukemia over the period of atmospheric weapons testing. This was arguably a cold-blooded cover up of the clear increases shown in the Danish Cancer Registry data which the authors had employed as one of the datasets and which they eventually admitted they knew about following an investigation in CERRIE and another investigation by the ethical committee of the British Medical Journal, who I complained to. These Danish data and earlier research on the issue were not cited in the paper by Darby et al., and when challenged in the CERRIE committee Sarah Darby stated that the data had been destroyed. Later, following the complaint to the BMJ and to the Danish Committee for Scientific Dishonesty by Busby, Darby said the data had been found; it showed the existence of a peak which had been submerged by Darby et al. by statistical chicanery and inappropriate presentations. Busby also went to Copenhagen and obtained original data from the founder of the Danish Cancer Registry Johannes Clemmesen confirming this.
In addition to the childhood leukemia scam, the Darby Doll team (with others) carried out two studies of the UK A-Bomb Test veterans which were seriously flawed for many reasons, the main ones being a change in the protocol half way through the study which reduced the significance of an increase in leukemia in the veterans found in the initial analysis.

Professor Brian Spratt, Professor William Bonfield
I now turn to the matter of Uranium weapons and specifically the behaviour of the Royal Society. After all, The Royal Society should be the one place where you would expect to find purity and independence, a place where you would not expect to find bias and scientific dishonesty.
By the mid 1990s Gulf War syndrome had incapacitated 20% of those UK and US soldiers who had served in Iraq. There were increases in cancer, leukemia and birth defects in Iraqi populations. Following further use of DU in the Balkans, similar increases in cancer began to be reported from affected areas, and studies of Italian veteran peacekeepers showed increases in leukemia and lymphoma. There was a widespread belief that these effects were caused by exposures to Depleted Uranium munitions which, when employed, produce large quantities of widely dispersed and respirable sub-micron uranium oxide particles. Despite many reports from establishment scientists and risk agencies arguing that the radioactivity from uranium was too weak to be the cause of any cancer or other ill health at the likely levels of contamination, there was little acceptance of this viewpoint by the veterans or the public.
In 2000, the Royal Society set up a committee to examine the issue. The British Environment Minister Michael Meacher suggested that I should be in this committee but the RS refused. However, they agreed to ask me to give evidence.
Here let’s pause for thought: Why the Royal Society? Why did the Royal Society set up such a committee? The WHO, IAEA, EURATOM, the UN, the military, the NRPB, all said DU was safe. Did someone at the RS wake up one morning and think: What a good idea? Or were they asked to by the government? To use the good name of the RS to reassure the veterans? To reassure the public that the UK was not responsible for all the dying children in Iraq?
Prof Brian Spratt FRS, a microbiologist, was made Chair of the Royal Society Committee on the Health Effects of Depleted Uranium Weapons. The Committee’s advisor on radiological effects was Prof Dudley Goodhead whom we have met already.
Over two years the RS committee took evidence from many scientists, and eventually produced two reports on the issue. The radiological report published in 2001 concluded that the weapon produced dust which did not travel far from the impact site and did not represent a hazard unless inhaled in very large (choking) quantities. This conclusion was based entirely on advice from NRPB and Goodhead, who was responsible for the radiological section of the report.
I gave evidence to the RS committee arguing that the DU dust was a novel exposure, that such exposures caused high local internal doses and could not be addressed by the ICRP model which was only valid for external acute doses. I brought evidence from my trips to Kosovo and Iraq that the dust travelled large distances and remained in the environment for many years. This was ignored and omitted from the report.
I gave the veterans’ response to the final 2001 RS report launch at Carlton House. I argued that the epidemiological data and the new scientific evidence of anomalous radiation effects from internal exposures meant that the RS report was a whitewash, and that the good name of the RS was being used for political purposes. My report: ‘Depleted Science’ was presented at various conferences and published on the internet on several sites (www.cerrie.org/committee_papers/INFO_12-H.doc). However the story did not stop there.
Following the Royal Society Report, the MoD set up the independent Depleted Uranium Oversight Board (DUOB) to measure Uranium isotopes in the Gulf War 1 vets and to examine new scientific evidence. Spratt was a member of this committee. So was I. In addition to developing measurement protocols, each meeting of the DUOB examined new evidence relating to the health effects of Uranium. In the four years of the DUOB there were many new studies published in the peer-review literature showing that uranium exposure had anomalous and serious genotoxic effects and that uranium could not be assessed using the conventional radiological risk models which were based on acute external high doses at Hiroshima. Senior and influential scientists argued that there was a problem. I brought many of these arguments before Brian Spratt in the DUOB. All were dismissed or ignored in the final reports.
One such argument now becomes the focus of this story. It concerns uranium and photoelectrons. In 2003 I presented a new photoelectron enhancement theory of uranium radiotoxicity to CERRIE at their International Conference at St Catherine’s College Oxford and also later to the DUOB. I presented it to Brain Spratt, chair of the RS committee which had reported that DU was not a problem.
I will just explain the idea here. It is quite simple. All elements absorb natural background gamma radiation in proportion to the fourth power of their atomic number Z. This means that uranium (Z=92) has the highest absorption of gamma rays of any naturally occurring element The effective atomic number of living tissue is Z = 3.4 Uranium, as UO2++ ion (uranyl ion) also binds strongly to DNA, and this property has been used to image DNA in the electron microscope since Uranium’s affinity for DNA was discovered by Huxley in 1960. It follows that uranium particles collect natural background radiation and focus it in the human body. It follows that, as uranium binds to DNA, it focuses natural background into the DNA. The fourth power ratio between uranium and living tissue is about 250,000. This is not fantasy. In 2005, a researcher in the USA, Hainfeld, patented gold (Z=79) nanoparticles for enhancing X-ray treatments in tumour destruction; this meant that my idea is basically correct. In 2007 my colleague Andreas Elsaesser applied the CERN FLUKA Monte Carlo radiation track program to the problem of gold and uranium particles; results showed that my predictions of photoelectron enhancement of ionization density near uranium atoms and particles were correct.
I asked Prof Spratt, after my presentation to the DUOB (where Professor Goodhead was also present) whether he still thought that the Royal Society report had been correct in stating that Uranium was not a problem at the levels being generated by weapons usage. I asked him how a way forward could be found, since people were dying, uranium was still being used and the Royal Society was still the main authority underpinning its use. Spratt, cornered and in public, said I should send the theory to the Royal Society Journal: if they published it then the Royal Society would have to take notice. In 2007, after the Hainfeld paper was brought to my attention, I took out a provisional patent on uranium and photoelectron enhancement. I did a literature search and discovered that photoelectron enhancement had been dealt with mathematically and empirically in a number of papers from 1947 onwards, dealing mainly with gold. I wrote two papers, one on uranium particles and one on uranium bound to DNA. I sent them to the Proceedings of the Royal Society B in June 2007. They were both immediately ‘unsubmitted’ by the editors.
I telephoned the editors and complained. They said it was not biology: I should submit it to the Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Accordingly I sent the papers to Interface, editor Prof William Bonfield FRS, a scientist whose area of research (and links with industry and therefore research money) is prosthetic materials i.e. metal substances used inside the human body. The high Z theory will have an effect on the use of such materials since gold and platinum are often employed (and would explain cancers which turn up in people with prostheses). Bonfield sent the paper to three referees, all people who I know and who told me they had received the papers. They all said they recommended publication after some minor revisions.
But Bonfield rejected the papers: the explanation was that there was pressure on space in the journal. It is unheard of for an editor to overrule the referees, especially in an area where the consequences are so important for human health. I complained to the in-house Royal Society editor Tim Holt. I made the obvious points about the Royal Society DU committee and politics. Holt agreed to talk to Bonfield. Bonfield again rejected the papers. I contacted the Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society Peter Collins. His explanation was that the Journal Royal Society Interface was not part of the Royal Society, despite the name. He said he would talk to Bonfield. But eventually he wrote to say he could do nothing. The papers were rejected. The USA based oversight board including 41 scientists and experts complained in an open letter to the President of the Royal Society. But they were ignored.
So here are my questions.
Are the people I have presented guilty of crimes? Are they guilty of stupidity or cowardice? Are they innocent? Did the children who died because they were in the womb at the time of Chernobyl die because they represented the chance level for the event of 1 in 100,000,000? What about the BSE victims? The Sellafield leukemia children?
Having listened to Goodhead, and later seeing that new research showed Goodhead to be wrong, should Spratt have reconvened the RS committee on DU and saved thousands of lives?
Should Darby and Doll be prosecuted for splicing together two separate cancer series to remove evidence that fallout caused child leukemia, failing to cite earlier Danish evidence in papers and pretending that the data was destroyed?
Should the scientists I have introduced here and many that I have not had the space to introduce but who I have named in my books, suffer some kind of investigation and criminal prosecution?
Remember, we are dealing with the illness and death of innocent people resulting from twisted evidence and political and scientific chicanery. Or on occasion, maybe not, maybe just genuine differences of opinion. And we have to be careful: if such an organization as a committee for scientific dishonesty was set up, could it not be used, as the Royal Society was used, to itself deny good research or underpin bad practice? I believe that the answer is transparency and oppositional committees. CERRIE was set up as such a committee, and it would have fulfilled its remit if the final report had been allowed to include all sides of the argument, and if the research had been allowed to continue. Then politicians could have made up their minds and the public could have seen the arguments.
What all these stories have in common is that there is no such ‘committee to investigate scientific dishonesty.’ In the UK everything is informal, but this means nothing happens. Complaints were made to the BMA, and the BMJ about three of the above, Darby, Doll and Cartwright. In each case, the finding was that there had been a case to answer but nothing could be done. The BMA can sanction a doctor for sexually molesting a patient, can remove him from practice, but it can do nothing about a doctor who writes a bogus research paper that supports an industry which is routinely killing thousands with its environmental releases. I reported Darby and Doll to the Danish Committee for Scientific Dishonesty, but their investigating judge eventually ruled that too much time had elapsed between the paper (1993) and the complaint (2003) so their statute of limitations applied.
By their bias and their inappropriate epidemiology and support of an incorrect model underpinning radiation releases from nuclear sites, these people have been responsible for the deaths of thousands of people. They are as culpable as if they had poisoned them. They are not alone: I can name many people who are equally culpable and should answer in a court of law. If the Thalidomide research scientists were sentenced in Germany for their contribution to the teratogenic effect of the drug, then these people and other scientists who exclude evidence, bias their own results or knowingly use science to support harmful processes should also be sent to prison. Laws were laid down in times when science was not an issue and contamination and its effects were not tied so strongly to financial interests. Society has been overtaken by scientific crimes which are not presently recognized, though in effect they have the same effect as other crimes and often have much more serious and wide ranging consequences. It is time that an independent UK Scientific Oversight Board, or Committee for Scientific Dishonesty was set up to try these scientists and journal referees, using Judges and rules of evidence, with prosecution and defence counsel and scientists acting as expert witnesses.

Postscript October 2011
The essay above was a contribution to the book Iraq Silent Death edited by Christian Scherrer of the Hiroshima Peace Institute and published recently by University Sains Malaysia ISBN No 978-983-861-504-4. But you won’t find it on Amazon. The basis of the essay was a presentation I made at the Royal Society in London in 2008 in a meeting called “Scientific Dishonesty.” I was referring to events at the science policy interface that had occurred between 2001 and 2007. These instances of scientific dishonesty and bias were a result of scientists who had become enrolled in a system. But since then things have got a great deal worse. A taster of this is given in the same book by the philosopher Piotr Bein who draws out in his essay the system of media control and infiltration of NGOs being developed by the military and the pro nuclear groups. The situation now, following the Fukushima catastrophe, which is a potential catastrophe for the nuclear military combine as well as a very real catastrophe for the people of Japan, is alarming and clear. I will briefly introduce some more characters who I believe are dishonest scientists: but in these cases, their positioning history and behaviour make it clear that their positions and status have been orchestrated to ensure that the wrong advice is given to government, advice that protects the nuclear industry, the military and powerful financial interests. In asking for independent experts to assess science for policymakers, the existence of these individuals (and there are others in key positions) shows that some serious mistakes have been made.

1. Dr Richard Wakeford
Wakeford worked for British Nuclear Fuels Sellafield for most of his working life and was ultimately head of research on the radiation health effects. His degree was in physics and his PhD from Liverpool University (which apparently had to be resubmitted) was in some arcane area of particle physics.
He admitted to me that he knows nothing about chemistry or biology, and cares less. And although he has published in the area of epidemiology, like me he is not a university trained epidemiologist.
I first came across him in Ireland when he was sent to pacify the Irish who were exercised about the cancer increases along the Irish Sea coast which locals (rightly) blamed on the huge amounts of contamination from BNFL Sellafield, Wakeford’s employers. His job was to attack anyone who argued differently and this he did with great gusto, describing himself to me once as “BNFLs Rottweiler.” He collaborated with other scientifically dishonest people including Dr Sarah Darby (who I introduced in the essay above) and Sir Richard Doll. The focus was to show that low levels of exposure to internal radioactivity were harmless, something that Darby and Doll had tried doing with the Nordic Leukemia study, a classic case of scientific dishonesty. Wakeford has recently put out a new paper of his own (Wakeford 2010) on this which is equally dishonest in that he has displaced a time series data point to the beginning of its span, thus suggesting no effect where in fact there was an effect. He also failed to address or cite the child leukemia peak in Denmark, the only data stream that goes back far enough to detect the effect (See Wolves of Water, pp.305-316, and see see Low Level Radiation Campaign >> click on “Dishonesty” in the left-hand nav bar).
But I digress. It is not my purpose to show Wakeford to be biased, dishonest and wrong (all of which is true). What concerns me is his trajectory, his career. In 2004 he was on the CERRIE committee, representing BNFL. And he did represent BNFL. But that’s OK. Everyone knew where he was coming from and could make allowances. After CERRIE, Wakeford began attacking me personally in the columns of the Journal of Radiological Protection of which he was Editor. This is very bad form, as no one was peer reviewing what he wrote. And what he wrote was libelous and untrue. He did not ask me to respond. The attacks were about cancer and leukemia near the Irish Sea, and also other studies I had done which showed internal radiation exposure to be seriously hazardous. But again, everyone knew where he was coming from.
Around the time I began to show theoretically that Uranium was a serious hazard due to its secondary photoelectron effects ([see Wings of Death, Chapter 7, p. 188- and Wolves of Water, p.59, p.450, p.456]) which explained the cancers and malformations in Iraq, it became transparently obvious that the ICRP risk model that Wakeford was using was in complete disarray. The National Radiological Protection Board (which had become the appropriately named HPARP, Health Protection Agency, Radiation Protection Division) and others, had tried to address this issue but could not. They (and Wakeford) had lost the scientific argument. Dr Jack Valentin, the top man in ICRP (not quite the top man, see below) had taken retirement: he had had enough. The writing was on the wall. Valentin had conceded that the ICRP model was faulty and could not be used to assess risk in situations like Fukushima. This was on video, captured by Ditta Rietuma and put on the Internet e.g. at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2JFxnAkTW4
What to do?
Here is what they did. Clearly Wakeford was the sharpest knife in their drawer. He is clever, knowledgeable, unprincipled and vicious. But they could not use him as he was working for BNFL. He was demonstrably biased. So he “took early retirement.” Immediately he was made a “Visiting Professor” at the Dalton Institute, which is the nuclear energy funded school of the University of Manchester. Now he was “independent” and soon he appeared as an independent advisor. He turned up at the Kings Cliffe enquiry into the (disgraceful and dangerous) plan to bury huge amounts of radioactive waste in a landfill near Peterborough. I was asked by the locals to act as expert witness in that enquiry which was before a planning inspector, not a judge. I investigated the issues and soon found evidence of a conspiracy between the company making the application and their independent advisors, and possibly also the Environment Agency. It was quite clear cut. Additionally I found massive errors in both the application, the impact statements and the Environment Agency documents passing the application as being safe. But Wakeford got up and told the enquiry that I represent the wildest end of scientific understanding in this area and suggested that everything I wrote and said should be ignored. Nothing new there except that Wakeford was described as “independent scientific expert” and on the basis of his evidence, the planning officer totally ignored the evidence I gave.
Then there is Fukushima. When this happened I was the first to draw attention to the obvious massiveness of the events and to compare them with Chernobyl. I said on TV and radio, BBC, ITV and Russia Today that Fukushima was worse than Chernobyl. I was rapidly excluded from the BBC who shamefully went along with the pro-nuclear views and continue to do so. But who was there talking down the accident? Richard Wakeford, independent scientific expert.
Now there is  another planning enquiry, into the new-build of a nuclear power station in Somerset at Hinkley Point,a place where I have done several studies showing significant excess risks from breast cancer and also infant deaths. Who will be the main expert for the health issues? Professor Richard Wakeford, independent scientist from the Dalton Institute in Manchester. But most worrying of all is that he has now appeared on Committee 1 of the ICRP (www.icrp.org), which has now moved from Sweden to Canada. Wakeford is also advising the EU and was on the UK Department of Health Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE) committee advising the government on the seriousness of Fukushima (totally wrongly as it turned out) and the Japanese government also. He pops up everywhere, Fukushima, Kings Cliffe, at the EU in Brussels, Hinkley Point, the Scarlet Pimpernel of the nuclear industry.
So what is my point? It is this. The nuclear-military complex are orchestrating their people into key positions. It was always so, but now is screamingly apparent as they have had to dispense with subtlety owing to the panic resulting in nuclear power following Fukushima. So my message: Beware of Richard Wakeford. Oh, one last thing. He is almost certainly the anonymous blogger Richard D who puts up the chrisbusbyexposed website. The knowledge the blogger has of the research area, and what I have done, and the very words he uses make it clear that either Wakeford is the writer of this blog or he feeds him with information. Wakeford denies this. The nuclear military complex have a machine, a media machine, a propaganda black ops machine, and Wakeford is part of it, the science part.
Finally there is an interesting angle here. The nuclear industry needs somewhere to stick the nuclear waste. The Swedes have come up with the solution: They will put it in copper cylinders in a deep repository under the Baltic Sea, already the most radioactive sea in the world. To ensure that the project is seen to be fairly assessed, the Swedish radiological protection outfit, SSM are enrolling “independent experts.” The protocol for ensuring the independence of these external experts was set up by the International Atomic Energy Agency, an agency that “seeks to accelerate and enlarge the contribution of atomic energy to peace, health and prosperity throughout the world.” (IAEA Statute, Article 2) No bias there then. The requirement for independence is that the expert will not have worked for the nuclear industry for two years prior to being enrolled. That’s how a person like Professor Richard Wakeford can become an “independent expert.” The activity of the nuclear operators in Sweden is not restricted to Forsmark. There is a rapidly developing waste recycling plant run by Studsvik (company name) near Nyköping in eastern Sweden which dilutes Canadian reactor parts into saucepans and tips the excess waste in the Baltic. Who is the chief health authority in Sweden?

2. Dr Lars-Erik Holm
Well, I won't say too much about Lars-Erik Holm. He is the ex-Chair of ICRP and a member of the main committee in 1986-89 and a delegate to UNSCEAR for many years. He was the head of the Swedish Radiation Protection organization, previously known as SSI, was also Chair of UNSCEAR in 2001 and a delegate to UNSCEAR in 2006. He is famously on record as stating that the total death toll of Chernobyl is limited to 30 highly irradiated power station operators. He began his career researching the effects of radioiodine. He did this by an epidemiological study of patients who had received radioactive iodine treatment to reduce overactive thyroid glands. Dr John Gofman, ex-head of biomedical effects for the USA Atomic Energy Agency, took some time to deconstruct the Holm Iodine study. He pointed out that Holm had removed any patient whose cancer developed in the first five years after treatment and concluded after more than 11 pages of analysis in his book (Gofman 1990) that the Holm Iodine study was a “A Fatally Flawed Study.” It used incorrect controls to argue that internal exposure from radioiodine was less effective in causing cancer than external radiation at the same dose. Its results certainly protected the nuclear industry, enabling the ICRP to set limits to exposure high, and it was only when the Chernobyl accident occurred that Holm's flawed study was seen to have produced wildly incorrect predictors of harm. It is truly extraordinary that such a study made it through peer review.
In any event, this was Holm's first step on the ladder to fame and fortune. But here is the best of all. Lars-Erik Holm is currently the Medical Officer of Health for Sweden. The man who is at the very top of the Swedish Health system — a country bordering the Baltic Sea, the most radioactive in the world, where the effects of Chernobyl are significant and measurable (Tondel 1996), where there is a renaissance of nuclear power and where a huge nuclear waste repository is being built under the Baltic Sea at Forsmark. And from this position he was instrumental in having Martin Tondel cease research which showed that the health effects of the Chernobyl accident in Sweden has caused a significant increase in cancer. Yet what he found was perhaps the most important finding (see reference below) in cancer research of the last twenty years.
The nuclear-military complex had to have their man in at the top in Sweden for all this to go ahead. And there he is. Lars-Erik Holm.

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