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SWITZERLAND,
May 3 ( Islamonline.net & news Agencies) - Following the U.S.
"pre-emptive" destruction of Iraq, its people and culture,
the Trade Regulation Organization(TRO) issued a "55 most
wanted" playing-card deck similar to the one that the Pentagon
issued in Iraq.
According
to the news site of the World trade organization ( WTO)
on April 25, the TRO, estimating that the U.S. governing regime is no
longer consistent with world peace or prosperity, hoped that the
playing cards would show the way to regime change and, eventually,
large-scale war crimes proceedings.
Three
Categories
According
to the TRO, the victims of the unprovoked U.S. invasion fall into
three categories, first is “the Iraqi people”, it stated that In
the 1991 Gulf War, up to 200,000 civilians and up to 150,000 soldiers
were killed by ordinary bombs or their effects on infrastructure.
In
addition, poisoning from U.S. depleted uranium (DU) weapons - banned
by the Geneva Convention1 - has led to hundreds of thousands more
Iraqi cancers and deaths; the 80,000 cases of "Gulf War
syndrome" among U.S. veterans are most likely also due to
Depleted Uranium (DU) exposure.
In
the 2003 Iraq invasion, the U.S. once again used massive amounts of DU
in its weapons. Iraqi death counts are unknown or unpublicized, RTO
said.
The
second category is “Culture”. The RTO stated that because of a
U.S. policy giving carte blanche to looters - only the Oil Ministry
and Interior Ministry were protected - the Middle East's leading
archaeological museum lost almost all of its unique ancient artifacts,
and two libraries full of irreplaceable medieval manuscripts were
destroyed.
RTO
stated that the third category is “Long-term prospects”, it said
that the U.S. is now considered the primary world criminal by the vast
majority of the world's citizens.
The
implications for the U.S.'s long-term prospects are grim.
Safer
Place
Many
of those featured on the "55 most wanted" cards are in
government, and removing these people from power would go a long way
towards making the world a safer place, RTO stressed.
Other
cards include corporate CEOs in those cases, the corporations
themselves must be dissolved or otherwise rendered incapable of
further harm.
"If
one day the people on these cards are indeed brought to justice, 'just
following orders' or 'supporting our troops' will be no excuse for the
rest of us," TRO quoted spokeswoman Hedwig Ixtabal-Mono as
saying.
Conveying
the same message, the International Greenpeace distributed
a deck of cards similar to the U.S. deck of most-wanted Iraqi officials, replacing
them with world leaders who possess weapons of mass destruction.
"It's
an exact copy (of the U.S. deck) in terms of the design and
layout," the spokesman for the environmental organization,
William Peden, was quoted by Russia’s Interfax news agencies as
telling the Salzburger Nachrichten on Friday, May 2.
"The
idea is to provide delegates with something that's not a boring piece
of paper," Peden said.
"It's
something interesting and innovative that they can actually learn from
-- so it's an educational tool as well."
