Panama police shoot targets in Arab clothing in Israel-run training course
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MEMO | October 4, 2021
Images published on social media exposed Panama’s police officers shooting at targets dressed in traditional Arab clothing, including a headdress, during an Israeli-run training course.
The images, which caused controversy online, were published on Twitter by the National Police and the local Israeli chamber of commerce but were later deleted.
The controversy also drew criticism from the Panamanian Committee of Solidarity with Palestine, which said that the course promoted “violence and racism, so that anyone who wears a hijab or something similar can be classified as a terrorist.”
They added a request to the government in Panama to discontinue the intervention of foreign countries in training security forces.
“This training constitutes a violation of the protocols referring to the shooting courses that prohibit the use of distinctive figures of the Arab peoples as objects of hatred and persecution,” the statement said.
In response, the Panama police force issued an apology: “We are respectful of cultural, religious and ethnic differences. We regret that … a situation arose outside the nature of our mission and duty.”
The deleted Twitter posts claimed that the training was organised by the Israeli embassy in Panama
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Ronald Reagan’s Torture
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | September 8, 2009
The 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report, released in August 2009, referenced as “background” to the Bush-era abuses the spy agency’s “intermittent involvement in the interrogation of individuals whose interests are opposed to those of the United States.” The report noted “a resurgence in interest” in teaching those techniques in the early 1980s “to foster foreign liaison relationships.”
The report said, “because of political sensitivities,” the CIA’s top brass in the 1980s “forbade Agency officers from using the word ‘interrogation” and substituted the phrase “human resources exploitation” [HRE] in training programs for allied intelligence agencies.
The euphemism aside, the reality of these interrogation techniques remained brutal, with the CIA Inspector General conducting a 1984 investigation of alleged “misconduct on the part of two Agency officers who were involved in interrogations and the death of one individual,” the report said (although the details were redacted in the version released to the public).
In 1984, the CIA also was hit with a scandal over what became known as an “assassination manual” prepared by agency personnel for the Nicaraguan Contras, a rebel group sponsored by the Reagan administration with the goal of ousting Nicaragua’s leftist Sandinista government.
Despite those two problems, the questionable training programs apparently continued for another two years. The 2004 IG report states that “in 1986, the Agency ended the HRE training program because of allegations of human rights abuses in Latin America.”
While the report’s references to this earlier era of torture are brief – and the abuses are little-remembered features of Ronald Reagan’s glorified presidency – there have been other glimpses into how Reagan unleashed this earlier “dark side” on the peasants, workers and students of Central America. … continue
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Why do Panama Police(and American Police for that matter) need to be trained by Israeli’s? Could it be that NO ONE is as ruthless as an Israeli police trainer, and MAXIMUM FORCE is their first, and last Option???
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Zionist bas*ards. They’re everywhere, spreading/infecting all with their evil psychotic fever…when they should rightfully, if full justice were served, be NOWHERE…
(The effing “Israeli embassy in Panama” should be expelled from the country…)
This reader never fails to contemplate, and put ‘voice’ to, VIVA PALESTINE! Palestine is where the real “Ground Zero” is situated.
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Be careful Robert…..people will call you an “ANTI-SEMITE”………
“An “anti-Semite” used to be someone who hated Jews, today, it is someone who is hated BY Jews”…..Joe Sobran
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Brian, I shall no longer abide by “careful.” If someone wants to term (anti-Zionist) me “anti-Semitic” or “anti-Jewish,” so be it. It’s decent, observant Jews and all of humankind who need to open their eyes, change their behavior, call out and repudiate settler-colonial Zionism for the verminous-vile-vicious-vindictive abomination that it is, and rid/excise the collective body of the scourge. If that doesn’t happen — and, more and more, that seems to be the case — so be it. But it won’t end my — and too few other brave souls’ (like you!) — resistance. I refuse to be reticent or silenced any longer. In my case and at long last, the tipping point — the final realization — was the Zionist (re)invasion of Lebanon in 2006, whereupon the Lebanese, and their fellow victims the Palestinians, have become — by Zionist design! — more immiserated every day even as the circle of “victims” has expanded to include Iraq, Libya, Syria, (next?) Iran…. Where and when will it end and the ultimate victimizer — Zionism and its parasites! — experience a “put paid” moment of upheaval and justice, only justice? I can’t know that, but I’ll be pleased and ready to celebrate “So be it!” on that occasion! — alongside and in solidarity with the Palestinians, Lebanese et al.
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The welfare warfare abomination of squatting khazars in Palestine will not survive the total collapse of the evil anglozionazi empire of filth that is fast approaching. The thugs in apartheid, occupied Palestine, existing as they do only due to the tax cattle revenue of the sullen and bankrupt populous in Rancho Goyim and the EUSSR will not survive the future that is inevitable for the Middle East. Iranian power grows and when the fecal filled feudal crypt of Saud is reduced to ashes the writing will be clearly on the wall for the interlopers in Palestine. There can never be peace in the Middle East until the abomination of the zionazi entity is cleansed and the poison it has spread across the planet.
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