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In response to discussion at ET.
This photo is now missing, see link in my comment …
Nikon D2Xs user: Itamar Moatty
Photo [deleted] info at Wikipedia, photo released by IDF Spokesperson’s Unit
IDF Spokesperson Blog – Itamar Moatty
Nikon D300 user: Itamar Moatty
I must assume he is not using the old Nikon D2Xs anymore in 2010.
Found these archive photo’s on the Internet through Google: IDF spokesperson Itamar Moatty must have been on board as ship docked in Ashdod. Israel police took other photo’s of Sheikh Raed Salah in the city of Lachish after his detention in 2007? Now on Flickr dated 2010-05-31.
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IPTC Created Date: 2010-05-31
Release Date: 2010-05-31
See my original diary – Israeli Commandos Enter Mavi Marmara – Up to 16 Killed
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The al Qaeda link has been retracted from the IDF accounts of the Gaza aid flotilla attack.
Under Scrutiny, IDF Retracts Claims About Flotilla’s Al Qaeda Links
(Mondoweiss) – Some participants in the Gaza convoy are members of Insan Hak ve Hürriyetleri İnsani Yardım Vakfı –the Foundation for Human Rights, Liberties, and Humanitarian Relief– IHH, a Turkish non-governmental organizaion (NGO) established in the early 1990s. Its mission is to provide humanitarian relief in regions of conflict or that have experienced natural disasters. For the past six years, IHH has held Special Consultative status as an NGO (non-governmental organization) in the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
WTF reading interesting part of the article “evidence” of IHH terror link to al Qaeda on 90s. It was the United States who coordinated illegal transport of arms with Saudi funds, transported by and through NATO ally Turkey into Bosnia. If the statement is true, the IHH must have been linked to the CIA, indeed a terror organization who provides arms to terror groups, rogue states and mujahideen fighters of al Qaeda in Bosnia in the 90s and OBL in Afghanistan in the 80s.
“It was clearly proven that some of the NGO’s work was not charity, it was to provide a facade for moving funds, weapons and mujahedeen to and from Bosnia and Afghanistan” – areas focused on by Islamic militants then.
Arms (originated in Iran!!) transported into Bosnia was illegal under the UN embargo for the former Yugoslav states.
Read about the Croatian Pipeline.
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
(Hürriyet Daily News) – Kenneth Nichols O’Keefe, a U.S. Gulf War veteran who was aboard the ferry, said he was among the activists who overpowered three Israeli soldiers, according to the Anatolia news agency.
“[The soldiers] looked at us… They thought we would kill them, but we let them go,” O’Keefe said, adding that he took the weapon of one of the soldiers and emptied it, according to the Anatolia report.
“Then we were taken to the port of Ashdod, where we were all taken down. We were not allowed to take any sort of personal belongings.”
Upon their arrival, the activists were forced to sign a statement in Hebrew which the volunteers did not understand. The international campaigners were interrogated and then sent to different Israeli prisons.
Prior to their departure, they were given another paper and were pressured to confirm that they agreed to being deported from Israel on charges of illegal entry — this is while the Israeli army had forcefully brought them in.
Those campaigners from countries which do not recognize Israel were bused away to Jordan while others were sent to Istanbul on Turkish airline planes.
Hassan Ghani said a number of volunteers refused to leave Israel and said they decided to file a complaint and defend their cases in an Israeli court.
However, their resistance was met with violence from the Israeli side and they were severely beaten and dragged to the bus to the airport, and eventually forced to get on the plane.
Throughout their detention, the activists were not allowed to contact a lawyer or call their families, in contrast to the Israeli prison law.
Travel advice US citizens to Israel
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence.".
(Ynet News) June 6, 2010 – Ken O’Keefe was also accused by the IDF of having ties to terror. O’Keefe (41), who holds US and British citizenship, was described by the IDF as an “extreme Israel-hating activist, Hamas activist. His aim was to reach Gaza for training and to set up commando units for Hamas.”
"But I will not let myself be reduced to silence."