1) In the 1930s there was a group of American businessmen expediting finances for the NAZI war machine. Note the names involved include not only Prescott Bush, but also Foster Dulles. ‘Foster’ Dulles is John Foster Dulles, brother of Allen Dulles, Foster is his name in professional and business circles. John Foster Dulles was a ‘deeply religious’ conservative. Incidental to this, the NAZI political platform emphasizes ‘Positive Christianity’. Elements of ‘Positive Christianity’ portraying Jesus as a “Fighter” with violent, apocalyptic world view are today associated with extreme theology in the American religious right

Guardian article on Bush/Dulles Nazi connections

‎2) John Foster Dulles brother, Allen Dulles, rescued numerous NAZI war criminals by providing them with new identities in violation of explicit instruction by Harry Truman. Allen Dulles is written extensively about by former Pentagon liaison to the CIA, Colonel L Fletcher Prouty, in his work ‘The Secret Team.’ Allen Dulles, a former military intelligence officer, was first civilian and longest serving CIA Director. Colonel Prouty points directly to Allen Dulles as at the point of an internationally active ’secret team’, which he calls a “new religion”, working to undermine democracy around the world on behalf of American corporate boardrooms

Read ‘The Secret Team’ online here

‎3) CIA Director Allen Dulles sat on United Fruit Board of Directors, and John Foster Dulles served as United Fruit’s legal counsel. United Fruit is now Chiquita Brands, with extensive holdings in Latin America and a long history of CIA undermining Latin American governments to benefit its profits via corruption, cocaine & gun running, and associated mass murders. Meanwhile, evangelical Christianity and ‘pentecostalism’ has boomed throughout Latin America, so far as a variant becoming the religious cult belief of Drug Cartels such as ‘Los Zetas’ and ‘La Famiglia.’ After the Dulles brothers had died, Eli Black outbid the George H.W. Bush owned Zapata Corporation for control of United Fruit, and anything you can possibly imagine that could go wrong, did go wrong for Eli, including much of United Fruit’s paper assets magically vanishing, a fat bribe called ‘Bananagate’ pinned on Eli suddenly turned up with an SEC investigation, and the 54 year old Jewish businessman who likely (physically) could not fight his way out of a paper bag, miraculously broke an industrial strength window and ‘jumped’ from the 44th floor of a skyscraper. With Eli conveniently out of the way, Chiquita Brands was taken over by close Bush buddy & religious right Republican big shot Carl Lindner

History of Chiquita Brands at Wikipedia here

4) Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder served as legal counsel for Chiquita Brands and is directly involved in shielding Chiquita Brands corporate executives from ‘murder for hire’ prosecutions, when Chiquita had hired the Columbian AUC terrorist group’s right wing death squads to protect its banana interests in Columbia. Meanwhile, Holder has also been shielding criminal acts of the CIA with the ’state secret’ and ‘national security’ doctrine

Huffington Post article on Holder and Chiquita murder

5) CIA Director George H.W. Bush, son of NAZI financier Prescott Bush, after he became president, promoted Iran-Contra/narcotics and guns runner Robert Gates as his CIA Director. Robert Gates is so close to George H.W. Bush, it could be said Gates is the brother of evangelical George W. Bush. Robert Gates has been Obama’s Secretary of Defense and just now Afghanistan is the world’s leading supplier of heroin. With Robert Gates leaving Department of Defense for private sector and to be replaced by the fig leaf Panetta, General Patraeus, the American commander in Afghanistan, is scheduled to take over the CIA. General Patraeus is close to Robert Gates and the Bush dynasty

CIA narcotics-trafficking facts at youtube

‎6) 40 years after Colonel Prouty had written about a CIA centered new religious group he described as ‘The Secret Team’ dedicated to American corporate boardrooms taking over our republic, investigative reporter for Harper’s Magazine, Jeff Sharlet, documents the evolution of a new variant extreme Christian cult, ‘The Family’, founded by NAZI sympathetic American businessmen in the 1930s .. and this is precisely why the Bush/Cheney regime criminals will never be prosecuted by Chiquita lawyer Eric Holder

Article by Jeff Sharlet at salon.com

7) Meanwhile, George H.W. Bush and Robert Gates had, while positioning a CIA backed corporate empire, sunk Jimmy Carter’s re-election by making a secret deal with Iran’s ayatollahs to keep the American Embassy hostages in Iran until after the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. Since, the Reagan administration’s man in charge of coordinating Christian conservatism with government, Iran-Contra scandal implicated Attorney General Ed Meese, had mentored Antonin Scalia to the U.S. Supreme Court. After that, the Ed Meese inspired Federalist Society has provided us with three more justices, Clarence Thomas by association, and Samuel Alito and John Roberts by membership. The society has  many events and members featuring Bush associated criminal personalities to include Dick Cheney, Cheney’s former Vice Presidential counsel and mutual friend of John Roberts Shannen Coffin, Condoleezza Rice, and torture lawyer John Yoo. Dick Cheney was ranking Republican for the Iran-Contra Congressional hearings and that is how much damning information was suppressed

The Bush/Gates/Iran 1980 election story at alternet

8 ) Again, Colonel Prouty had pointed to corporate boardroom centered, CIA backed ‘Secret Team’ new religion penetrating every facet of American security services, to include the FBI and military. Since, former Air Force officer and lawyer Mikey Weinstein has been documenting an extreme Christian cult military leadership having overtaken the USA’s Air Force Academy particularly, and force feeding our troops religious right propaganda throughout our military. Our Christian extremist Officers Christian Fellowship led Pentagon has, via Chiquita lawyer Eric Holder’s Department of Justice, been fighting Mikey Weinstein’s efforts tooth and nail

Facts of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation

Additional notes: Throughout this information there emerges a portrait of wealthy men with careers in intelligence who profess patriotic motivation where action promotes self-serving/self-enriching interests. To put Colonel Prouty in simple terms, he’d told his story, giving excellent descriptions of what he’d seen in historical context and concluded ‘something here just doesn’t smell right.’ In the 40 years since, there have been many developments that can be seen as having filled in the blanks. That Jeff Sharlet (personal communication) cannot tie ‘The Family’ to ‘The Secret Team’ does not, in my view, detract from what otherwise can only be described as events beyond coincidence: The Dulles brothers connection as a common thread between 1930’s American businessmen involved with financing the 3rd Reich war machine, and the post WW II Dulles brothers positions and activities including rescuing NAZI criminals, with corporate boardroom ties spanning the entire period of criminal activities. If there had been a script written to fill in the blanks for the picture Colonel Prouty had drawn, ensuing events and what Jeff has documented entirely independently appears a close match. As noted in Colonel Prouty’s work, the CIA (and elements of the larger intelligence community) is organized into cells, which more often than not, are not aware of each other or assignments and objectives. There is a large redundancy built into these organizations to prevent mission failure, were one element to be penetrated and/or exposed. This is a premier challenge facing people in the business of espionage. With men like Allen Dulles at the point of a concerted effort at treason, it stands to reason any corporate boardroom ventures bent on the undermining of democracy and overthrow of our republic based on motivation of narcissistic greed shrouded in facade of ‘god and country’ would be organized into cells of the same nature. The Department of State and the CIA are siamese twins and that was never more apparent than in the case of the Dulles brothers, with John Foster Dulles as Secretary of State and Allen Dulles as Director of Central Intelligence. That Prescott Bush is tied to the pre-war Dulles brothers business ventures with the 3rd Reich and George H.W. Bush is tied to the post war Dulles brothers business empire, is beyond dispute. The pre and post WW II crimes on all parties part, individuals and corporations, appear to merge at critical times in the operational sector of the CIA, which gives Colonel Prouty’s hypothesis credit. What clinched it for me, is my running these proposed facts by my Department of State insider for confirmation and I quote the reply: ”One word: Yup. I don’t remember all the details, and that’s what makes it difficult to make a case. I’ve never kept reference lists for all I’ve read, in part because a good portion of it might still be classified.”

It should be noted here, there are many over-lapping branches of extreme Christian fundamentalism. Not all right-wing evangelicals are Pentecostals and the Pentecostals themselves are a diverse group. And certainly not all evangelicals or Pentecostals dedicate themselves to a church in supremacy over democracy, however many in both groups do. Additionally, there are elements of right-wing catholics who make common cause with these protestant extremists .. as appears to be the case with some lay catholics and certain societies such as Opus Dei and Pius X, also the present administration at the Vatican.

Beyond this, any ‘family’ or ’secret team’ (whether you believe they are different organizations or separate cells of the same) would not hesitate to utilize unsuspecting groups whom they held some beliefs in common with. In any group there almost certainly will be ‘levels’ of initiation or confidence, similar to security clearance, determining how proactive one is expected to be. This would be modeled after security technique of classified information made accessible to people on a ‘need to know’ basis.

Olberman series on “Crusader” murders in Iraq (since covered up with minimal prosecutions)

Part One .. Part Two .. Part Three

*Disclaimer: This article reflects the investigative research techniques and training of the author, and does not conform to more typical academic rules, but are method employed in certain law enforcement and intelligence communities

Note to my readers: Other than support for the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, I will be on indefinite sabbatical. Any further open source intelligence analysis/composition on political crimes will post entirely dependent on future harassment from intelligence agencies and associated parties

If there were a New Year resolution I would wish upon my fellow countrymen, it would be to study up on this issue and force it into the mainstream news with support for the non-profit Military Religious Freedom Foundation which is the only organization I am aware of taking on ‘Christian Dominionism’

This particular [pentecostal] scourge of torture and murder of accused child “witches” finds its roots in fundamentalism in dark ages or medieval Europe with an initial focus on women. With the ‘enlightenment’ and spread of literacy, the Catholic church lost much of its authority and its ability for public pursuit of the ‘witchcraft’ agenda. However the overt persecution of innocents continued to manifest in extremist breakaway protestant sects which had been largely driven out of Europe and America inherited one of the more extreme of these- the English Puritans [of Cotton Mather fame] from which our modern Pentecostalism is derived and from whence child murder over ‘witchcraft’ has spread to Africa via missionaries.

In today’s Catholic church there is a related resurgence of dark ages hate directed at women with a fascist Hitler Youth Corps Pope Ratzinger having only recently made the ordination of a woman equal to being a pedophile in formal church law [related article]

Pentecostal and Catholic fundamentalism and related superstitions are both resurgent and this is a great threat to humanity as a whole, not only children and women. However the Pentecostals and fundamentalist Catholics may differ in minor details, both believe in literal Armageddon and in today’s world of lethal armaments, considering this, it does well to consider where fundamentalism ties to power and politics in a modern weapons world with resurgent dark age superstition gone so far as murdering kids as witches

An excellent history of fundamentalism in America has been recently written by Jeff Sharlet, a New York University researcher and Harper’s Magazine investigative journalist in his work The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

“At the HEART of American Power” Think about that, then read this article on child torture that has spread from Africa, returning full circle to ENGLAND [read article]

Meanwhile the BBC is reporting a sharp rise in child witch accusations and murders in Africa [read BBC article]

Considering this recent manifestation of dark age superstition is an USA export via missionaries to Africa- what’s worse is the people tied up in this religion in the USA are not gone out of power, it is not only Bush/Cheney and friends, it is Obama National Security Advisor Jones and it is Obama Secretary of Defense Gates and anyone who is paying close attention should wonder how it is Barak and Hillary goose step out in front of Jones and Gates as though Bush/Cheney had never left. Incidental to this, the Secretary of Defense holds the President’s nuclear key as noted by former Colonel Prouty in his The Secret Team -a man who worked for a decade in the Pentagon for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Colonel Prouty states there is a ’secret team’ working inside government that had not laid its hand on the nuclear trigger “yet” and Colonel Prouty’s secret team matches for “The Family” in our intelligence community and military. Colonel Prouty’s assessment of not holding the nuclear trigger “YET” predates Bush/Cheney and their choice of Robert Gates inherited by Obama as Secretary of Defense

Paying attention?

Here’s just a few more observations relating to an article [below] I’d picked up from the AP WIRE and subsequently researched

1) This evangelical import to Africa from the USA has supplanted traditional African culture and is preying on superstition and exploiting poverty but it is not limited in a virulent form to Africa.

2) Robert Gates military contractors are infected in a big way [watch video] and the worst of them, Blackwater [now Xe Corporation], has been given hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts as private pentecostal armies are being created in the shadow of Iraq and Afghanistan

3) Pentecostal people are not all evil- BUT Christians need to put their house in order, because the worst of the Pentecostals are evil beyond belief. It was pentecostal Bishop Thomas Muthee of Kenya that anointed Sarah Palin as Queen Esther and cast a prayer over her to protect her from “witchcraft” and “make her a way” in politics. In Kenya also there are routine murders of accused witches by pentecostals, not only children, often they are the indigenous African culture’s faith healers. Pentecostal John Ashcroft introduced, via his United States Department of Justice, torture of people of other faith (Muslims) into United States history. John Ashcroft has been identified as a member of The Family

4) Both Sarah Palin and John Ashcroft cut their teeth as Pentecostals in the Assemblies of God church. The Pentecostal belief concerning Muslims is not so different to Pentecostal superstition concerning child witches, the Assemblies of God teach “Muslims are the Children of Satan” [that is for real folks, they have traveling teachers who give 'advanced' Bible studies of which Sarah Palin was a student] All of the people you see mentioned in the The Family article are Pentecostal or fundamentalist Catholic, fear mongers, hate mongers, and intolerant of other beliefs (including many ‘christian’ sects.) The Family includes Senators, Congressmen, Generals et cetera, and their cult heroes are not only Jesus, but Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. Hitler controlled Germany with 8% of the population, the NAZI party members practicing point 22 of the NAZI Party Platform: “Positive Christianity.” A pentecostal element known as “dominionists” are behind this evil in today’s USA, at more than 12% in today’s populace and representing a wealthy clique in the corporate elite. Pentecostalism is the brand of fundamentalism Obama’s White House “Faith Director” practices and dominionist fundamentalism is what Defense Secretary Robert Gates is force feeding our soldiers and promoting to the highest positions in our armed forces [related article]

5) These murders (article below) are the result of exploiting ignorance and fear. If you think this cannot happen in the USA, think again. The USA is where this has originated, and when you read The Family article you will discover some of the people attempting to make this fear and loathing our nations and the world’s primary faith. This intolerance must be fought. It is not going to be wished away with love and turning the other cheek will not make it go away either.

AP WIRE 
Oct 17th, 2009 | EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him — Mount Zion Lighthouse

A month later, he died

Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of “witch children” reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files

Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

“It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity,” said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria

For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed. Poverty, conflict and poor education lay the foundation for accusations, which are then triggered by the death of a relative, the loss of a job or the denunciation of a pastor on the make, said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund

“When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats,” he said. “It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change … and children are defenseless.”

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The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria’s 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire

Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United Nations Children’s Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa

Church signs sprout around every twist of the road snaking through the jungle between Uyo, the capital of the southern Akwa Ibom state where Nwanaokwo lay, and Eket, home to many more rejected “witch children.” Churches outnumber schools, clinics and banks put together. Many promise to solve parishioner’s material worries as well as spiritual ones — eight out of ten Nigerians struggle by on less than $2 a day

“Poverty must catch fire,” insists the Born 2 Rule Crusade on one of Uyo’s main streets

“Where little shots become big shots in a short time,” promises the Winner’s Chapel down the road

“Pray your way to riches,” advises Embassy of Christ a few blocks away

It’s hard for churches to carve out a congregation with so much competition. So some pastors establish their credentials by accusing children of witchcraft

Nwanaokwo said he knew the pastor who accused him only as Pastor King. Mount Zion Lighthouse in Nigeria at first confirmed that a Pastor King worked for them, then denied that they knew any such person

Bishop A.D. Ayakndue, the head of the church in Nigeria, said pastors were encouraged to pray about witchcraft, but not to abuse children

“We pray over that problem (of witchcraft) very powerfully,” he said. “But we can never hurt a child.”

The Nigerian church is a branch of a Californian church by the same name. But the California church says it lost touch with its Nigerian offshoots several years ago

“I had no idea,” said church elder Carrie King by phone from Tracy, Calif. “I knew people believed in witchcraft over there but we believe in the power of prayer, not physically harming people.”

The Mount Zion Lighthouse — also named by three other families as the accuser of their children — is part of the powerful Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. The Fellowship’s president, Ayo Oritsejafor, said the Fellowship was the fastest-growing religious group in Nigeria, with more than 30 million members

“We have grown so much in the past few years we cannot keep an eye on everybody,” he explained

But Foxcroft, the head of Stepping Stones, said if the organization was able to collect membership fees, it could also police its members better. He had already written to the organization twice to alert it to the abuse, he said. He suggested the fellowship ask members to sign forms denouncing abuse or hold meetings to educate pastors about the new child rights law in the state of Akwa Ibom, which makes it illegal to denounce children as witches. Similar laws and education were needed in other states, he said

Sam Itauma of the Children’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network said it is the most vulnerable children — the orphaned, sick, disabled or poor — who are most often denounced. In Nwanaokwo’s case, his poor father and dead mother made him an easy target

“Even churches who didn’t use to ‘find’ child witches are being forced into it by the competition,” said Itauma. “They are seen as spiritually powerful because they can detect witchcraft and the parents may even pay them money for an exorcism.”

That’s what Margaret Eyekang did when her 8-year-old daughter Abigail was accused by a “prophet” from the Apostolic Church, because the girl liked to sleep outside on hot nights — interpreted as meaning she might be flying off to join a coven. A series of exorcisms cost Eyekang eight months’ wages, or US$270. The payments bankrupted her

Neighbors also attacked her daughter

“They beat her with sticks and asked me why I was bringing them a witch child,” she said. A relative offered Eyekang floor space but Abigail was not welcome and had to sleep in the streets

Members of two other families said pastors from the Apostolic Church had accused their children of witchcraft, but asked not to be named for fear of retaliation

The Nigeria Apostolic Church refused repeated requests made by phone, e-mail and in person for comment

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At first glance, there’s nothing unusual about the laughing, grubby kids playing hopscotch or reading from a tattered Dick and Jane book by the graffiti-scrawled cinderblock house. But this is where children like Abigail end up after being labeled witches by churches and abandoned or tortured by their families

There’s a scar above Jane’s shy smile: her mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and repeated exorcisms costing a total of $60 didn’t cure her of witchcraft. Mary, 15, is just beginning to think about boys and how they will look at the scar tissue on her face caused when her mother doused her in caustic soda. Twelve-year-old Rachel dreamed of being a banker but instead was chained up by her pastor, starved and beaten with sticks repeatedly; her uncle paid him $60 for the exorcism

Israel’s cousin tried to bury him alive, Nwaekwa’s father drove a nail through her head, and sweet-tempered Jerry — all knees, elbows and toothy grin — was beaten by his pastor, starved, made to eat cement and then set on fire by his father as his pastor’s wife cheered it on

The children at the home run by Itauma’s organization have been mutilated as casually as the praying mantises they play with. Home officials asked for the children’s last names not to be used to protect them from retaliation

The home was founded in 2003 with seven children; it now has 120 to 200 at any given time as children are reconciled with their families and new victims arrive

Helen Ukpabio is one of the few evangelists publicly linked to the denunciation of child witches. She heads the enormous Liberty Gospel church in Calabar, where Nwanaokwo used to live. Ukpabio makes and distributes popular books and DVDs on witchcraft; in one film, a group of child witches pull out a man’s eyeballs. In another book, she advises that 60 percent of the inability to bear children is caused by witchcraft

In an interview with the AP, Ukpabio is accompanied by her lawyer, church officials and personal film crew

“Witchcraft is real,” Ukpabio insisted, before denouncing the physical abuse of children. Ukpabio says she performs non-abusive exorcisms for free and was not aware of or responsible for any misinterpretation of her materials

“I don’t know about that,” she declared

However, she then acknowledged that she had seen a pastor from the Apostolic Church break a girl’s jaw during an exorcism. Ukpabio said she prayed over her that night and cast out the demon. She did not respond to questions on whether she took the girl to hospital or complained about the injury to church authorities

After activists publicly identified Liberty Gospel as denouncing “child witches,” armed police arrived at Itauma’s home accompanied by a church lawyer. Three children were injured in the fracas. Itauma asked that other churches identified by children not be named to protect their victims

“We cannot afford to make enemies of all the churches around here,” he said. “But we know the vast majority of them are involved in the abuse even if their headquarters aren’t aware.”

Just mentioning the name of a church is enough to frighten a group of bubbly children at the home

“Please stop the pastors who hurt us,” said Jerry quietly, touching the scars on his face. “I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch.”

Last updated 7 June 2011- updates are at the bottom of the article

The New York Times on the WikiLeaks Afghan war documents release:

“It is sometimes unclear whether a particular incident report is based on firsthand observation, on the account of an intelligence source regarded as reliable, on less-trustworthy sources or on speculation by the writer. It is also not known what may be missing from the material”

“The unfiltered intelligence and incident reports are sometimes consistent with data released to the public. But the archive is clearly an incomplete record of the war. It is missing many references to seminal events”

This [above] is absolutely consistent with methodology using a select collection of authentic documents employed to deceive as described in “The Secret Team” by Colonel Prouty, former Joint Chiefs of Staff/CIA liason. Colonel Prouty pointed out the Pentagon Papers had been a deliberately engineered psy-ops operation to shift political responsibility in the public eye for the colossal intelligence and policy failures in Vietnam, stating the Pentagon Papers are:

“unreliable, inaccurate and marred by serious omissions. They are a contrived history

Welcome to a cyber-age WikiLeaks repeat of a 40 year old social deceit

This psy-ops trick does not conceal the policy failures, that cannot be done. What is actually happening here is a deliberate twist put on the facts to further the political agenda of one party undermining another party with dirty tricks. The Afghanistan effort had actually only begun coming apart at the seams [as documented in my blog over the past two years] since it became apparent Obama would become president

Now up to his neck in a mess engineered to sink him, the timing of this manipulated documents history released by WikiLeaks is sweet for the neo-con engineers of the professionally engineered psy-ops project: Mid-term elections. It will not get progressives to vote for neo-cons but is intended to undermine liberal support for their candidates while the right wing will be motivated to support theirs. Meanwhile Obama marches forward with Secret Team [also known as “FAMILY”] CIA career criminal Robert Gates directing operations. Narcissism is a blinding thing and the criminal element in our neo-con run military intelligence employing psy-ops operations, enabling taking political advantage of people like Obama, are having a field day. This operation is clearly designed to cause social and political upheaval undermining the administration [not that I am particularly sympathetic to this administration, people who reads my essays know I am not, I’m pointing out what I see going on from my knowledge and training]

What should Obama do? Clearly, if he wishes to survive, he fires Gates and his Generals and begins getting out of Afghanistan NOW, particularly because this entire affair’s timing has buried former Bush CIA director Michael Hayden (a neo-con general) having stated attacking Iran is presently pushed to top of the CIA/neo-con agenda- which certainly will bring world social chaos and possibly nuclear war, playing to neo-con consolidation of control through disaster with emergency dictates and security measures

The virtue of patience is rewarded in the business of countering counter-intelligence, the web of deceit employing disinformation called psy-ops to put spin on the reality of facts which cannot be otherwise concealed. With a certain training and identifiable targets, the sniper out to target liars only need wait for a mistake to be made. People who lie to the public to serve an agenda of the corporate powerful’s intelligence agencies have made their first mistake already- in servicing and promoting dishonesty in humanity which leads to their inevitable coming into focus in a snipers scope. Truth is unforgiving. Liars cannot forever cover their tracks because of the very laws of physics, if for no other reason, and I am pleased to take this shot at wikileaks founder Julian Assange

“The Independent on Sunday” since 1990 “Free from party political ties” & “free from proprietorial influence” has demonstrated this 18 July 2010 it is not free of being ‘used like a stooge’ and interviewed the disingenious Assange who very nicely blew his cover to bits on record without himself or the newspaper even realizing it [read article]

My advice to the Independent is to hire a former military intelligence man with a sense of despise for his former profession when pursuing these sorts of interviews (no, I am not available, I only want a girlfriend and bungalow in the country at which time I will be happy to walk away from this entire business ;o)

“The U.S. has wanted him for questioning since March” so what on earth is he doing in Britain whose intelligence agencies are so in bed with USA intelligence, the two countries should be treated for sex addiction? British intelligence has repeatedly fought British courts and judges over state secrets revealing British involvement in USA kidnapping and torture on the pretext it would jepoardize “intelligence sharing with the CIA” on top of have a “no proof needed” extradition treaty- if the CIA actually wanted Assange, they had him, right there. Assange was in England (unmolested) to lecture at an investigative journalists forum.

Assange: “I’m constantly annoyed people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11

Lets have a former United States Army General of “Intelligence” speak to that:

Major General Albert Stubblebine [watch video]

Assange’s “I’m constantly annoyed people are distracted by false conspiracies such as 9/11” sounds like exactly the message a CIA seeking “FAMILY” military/industrial corporate control through staged disaster would run: in a counter-intelligence psy-ops operation promoting disinformation at an investigative journalists forum: ‘Don’t look any closer at 9/11’

Do I think the CIA was behind 9/11? I don’t know. But when we are told by the presently famous ‘web journalist’ and founder of wikileaks to ignore the obvious (taking an even more conservative approach than General Stubblebein in the video) such as building #7 (nothing hit building 7) having been brought down by classic and highly professional implosion or demolition technique, I think we need to look more closely at BOTH: 9/11 and the famous guy telling the world’s investigative journalists ‘don’t look any closer at 9/11’

Assange states “everyone’s email is being read” and accordingly advises ‘leaking the old fashioned way’ with a “drop to the post office box”

NO-no-no Julian Assange, it does not work like that unless you wish to do intelligence agencies like the CIA a big favor- the daily 1.6 billion “everyones” email collected by American intelligence cannot be read, it is a logistical impossibility. Text extraction computing software is imperfect and pick ups by far more false leads than real leads and ‘read mails’ of those people singled out for surveilliance [like myself] can read by more than one country’s agencies, including law enforcement [a fact for which I am personally pleased] and that is how, among other things, Italian law enforcement can bring down a criminal CIA rendition

It is actually much easier for intelligence agencies to track the physical mail system. It leaves tangible clues: postmarks, finger prints, DNA.. whereas the experienced someone who is keen not to be monitored or discovered while whistle-blowing crimes [unlike myself, I do not need to conceal my identity] working inside/outside the system will leak with a untraceable to the source used or stolen laptop at a wireless café where one can create an online email account in minutes, attach, upload and send documents in a few minutes more, abandon the mail account, wipe the drive, destroy and dispose of [dumpster] the computer and never frequent that particular wireless café again. Another means is upload from a parked car sitting in the street, having found a random open wireless signal and DO NOT leak to WikiLeaks

Trained intelligence people know this. Trained counter intelligence people would also want Julian Assange putting out the word to use physical a P.O. Box to leak, so they can better track leaks to their source. Assange profiles for CIA and by the way, someone else who thinks Assange is in bed with intelligence is Wayne Madsen

Another hole in Assange’s story is the frequent moving and ‘safe houses’ coupled with his statement “Is it in the interest of the CIA to assassinate me? Maybe. But who would do it?” Firstly, frequently moving largely increases the successful possibility of assassins with the CIA’s resources- particulary moving from country to country with close CIA ties (Britain for instance) because it vastly enlarges the range of possibilities for coordinating a successful hit operation. But if you are CIA as I expect Assange is, it is not a problem in any case except again, everyone proving sympthetic to Assange by providing ‘safe houses’ has given themselves up to intelligence and does not even realize it- on top of the absurdity of believing the safe houses would not be monitored and known by MI5 & and MI6 who would in any case be interested and has information sharing arrangement with CIA.

By comparison, I had confined myself to approximately a 2 square km area with limited access for a year and a half in a country with a healthy suspicion of British intelligence and by extension the CIA. Accordingly I’d made it exceedingly difficult for ‘hostiles’ to make a hit without detection and, insofar as Assange’s “who would do it?” one only has to read my blogs. A Sabrina DeSousa would do it. A Gary Berntsen would do it. And they would do with an agency or corporate support team. The very fact of Assange’s being alive and running freely around Britain demonstrates the CIA’s actual disinterest in taking him out of public circulation with a hit AND the Pentagon’s disinterest in bringing Assange into custody for questioning.

As for Assange’s not caring about sources but only the documents authenticity, one only need read how the CIA uses authentic documents to pursue a public disinformation [psy-ops] agenda through leaks with the so-called “Pentagon Papers” as detailed by a former Colonel of Intelligence who worked supporting the CIA [Colonel Fletcher Prouty, author of The Secret Team]

I compare Julian Assange to Daniel Ellsberg and that is NOT a good thing despite popular legend. Who is Daniel Ellsberg? According to a former top USA intelligence officer [L Fletcher Prouty] writing about the so-called ‘Pentagon Papers’

“As you may recall, this treasure trove of TOP SECRET papers was delivered to the New York Times, and other newspapers in mid- June, 1971, by a then-unknown “Hippie” of that period. His name was Daniel Ellsberg. What few people have learned since that time is the fact that .. Daniel Ellsberg .. had worked in the office of International Security Affairs (ISA)”

So, Daniel Ellsberg, purported American dissident, got his start as an American intelligence officer. And? Leaked the ‘Pentagon Papers’ which Colonel Prouty describes as:

“unreliable, inaccurate and marred by serious omissions. They are a contrived history”

Colonel Prouty goes on to note:

“that I had written parts of some of them [Pentagon Papers] proves that they were not genuine Pentagon papers, because my work at that time was devoted to support of the CIA”

The above [quotes] are from ‘The Secret Team’, a suppressed history of the CIA

Now, some 40 years later, we have the Pentagon in a manhunt for the founder of ‘wikileaks’ and this is just too rich to pass up-

Anyone who has ever encountered the ‘intelligence’ community from the inside [worked there] is bound to be a little freaked out, is probably paranoid, and likely demented if they did not get out at first opportunity after realizing just what goes on there, and then it is likely too late. My blogs are a little bit freaked out, somewhat paranoid, and absolutely demented at times but I try for the most part to keep ‘demented’ limited to satire for the sake of my overall mental health ;o)  All going to my past in ‘intelligence.’

Because in ‘intelligence’, particularly when it comes to counter-intelligence and psy-ops [psychological operations] truth is a relative thing and the problem with that is, truth being relative IS NOT healthy. It is not healthy for people and it is not healthy for society

Now, we have a cyber-age repeat of the ‘Pentagon Papers.’ What did the ‘Pentagon Papers’ episode serve to do? A professionally engineered psychological operation, it shifted, for the public consumption, responsibility for the colossal intelligence and policy failures in Vietnam, from the CIA to the military. In the end, only the CIA and their close friends in the military/industrial complex who profit from war, and those promoted CIA agents in military service cover, benefited. Accountability never happened

It really is that simple. Former [or current] intelligence agent Daniel Ellsberg, unwitting or witting, is the CIA generated ‘myth’ on whose axis that shift of responsibility was accomplished via the ‘Pentagon Papers’

Replay Afghanistan & wikileaks:

CIA agent Robert Gates [from the operational sector, rose to be director of CIA or DCI] took over Department of Defense for George W Bush and the incredibly narcissist [blind] Obama kept him on despite Gates’ relationship bordering on gay love with the Bush’ family. So what would you expect? They are all dirt-bags, left and right, so now the neo-con CIA via the Gates religious extremist controlled military, is going to release TONS of [legitimate] dirt on the ‘Obama’ foreign policy just in time to influence mid-term elections to the joy and satifaction of all lovers of family Bush or, that is to say to the purile  satisfaction of closet-sadistic-gay ‘jesus is coming’ neo-con philosophers and followers. All nicely arranged by the same people [CIA] who have sent Afghanistan to hell in a handbasket to undermine their president with their uniquely loyal to jesus patriotism, and they will present themselves as smelling like a rose by comparison to what they’ve just pinned with real documents on the [legitimately dirt-bag] Democrats

Here is how it profiles:

Julian Assange, wikileaks founder, got his start in the ‘Chaos Computer Club’ or ‘CCC’

Chaos Computer Club reeks of intelligence agency penetration, manipulation and control. If there were ever an open field invitation for CIA, KGB, STASI, et cetera, playing the game, this is it. Wikileaks credibility, from a standpoint of secure against counter-intelligence operations, dies right here, with the CCC association

“In 1989, the CCC was peripherally involved in the first cyberespionage case to make international headlines. A group of German hackers led by Karl Koch, who was loosely affiliated with the CCC, was arrested for breaking into US government and corporate computers and selling operating-system source code to the Soviet KGB.” -wikipedia

Now, this, above, is a bit of fine information.. or not. Intelligence, and particularly counter-intelligence, often take advantage of a truth, to create a lie

By the time of this incident [above] senior CIA operative Duane Clarridge had established a ‘counter-terror’ program in western europe over the same period of time ‘CCC’ had seen its operations established and grow. You can bet your bottom dollar ‘CCC’ has the acronym CIA and the name ‘Clarridge’ written into it. Chaos makes a fine third initial. That is likely why those guys who played ball with KGB were caught and arrested. Freelance is fine until you play ball with people we [CIA] may not like. Many CCC participants would not know of agency penetration, manipulation and at times, control

Meanwhile a felon/hacker who under any circumstance would be under surveilance by the USA authorities has ‘come forward’ and ‘warned’ the military about a military intelligence soldier’s leak to wikileaks including 160,000 pages of classified diplomatic cables and military documents the soldier has described as ‘criminal’ and pointing to Hillary Clinton particularly. This one, folks, stinks to high, high heaven. I find it difficult to sympathise with the soldier who most likely was profiled to leak [has a conscience] and deliberately provided opportunity to leak select for him documents by even worse neo-con criminals [yeah, they come even worse than Hillary although she is REALLY BAD], because:

CIA stooge |c|i|a|stoōj|

noun

1 professional- an ignorant person who unknowingly serves to support or assist CIA in doing unpleasant work : he fell for that CIA psy-ops act and now are their manipulated stooge [aka ‘fish’ or ‘sucker’]

• element of a psy-ops counter-intelligence operation employed to release damaging documentation in deliberately engineered context to undermine political enemies, employing persons ignorant of being used, effectively a ‘plant for a snitch’ [similar to ‘bait and switch’]

Mainstream media & Daniel Ellsberg talking shit [watch video]

to read some really frightening insanity concerning neo-cons click here

to download or order a DVD of the suppressed history of the CIA by former intelligence officer Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, use this link: The Secret Team

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26 October 2010 update: If the WikiLeaks release of nearly 400,000 low level classified documents had been significant in uncovering a seminal issue the U.S. military command is truly concerned with keeping secret, or had the release been authentic in a sense of unscreened or unedited collection of documents, there would have been something had jumped out and made headlines worldwide: Covered up: More than 1/3 of American woman soldiers raped

8 December 2010 update: A close scrutiny of WikiLeaks points to a glaring error of missing rape reports on American woman soldiers in the Iraq war documents, an oversight showing a pre-screened documents collection. This single fact is the Achilles heel of the entire operation and factually shoots down every claim of WikiLeaks authenticity.

There can be no escaping what you claim is falsified, when in fact what you claim is demonstrably not there. WikiLeaks claimed unedited collection of Iraq war field reports. The many cases of American woman soldiers raped are not there but present in other sources.  The document collection had without question been tampered with prior to release. See the previous update of 26 October, with link to related article on the covered up epidemic rape of woman soldiers in the USA military. The documentary evidence is too strong to dismiss and yet is missing from the WikiLeaks release

So, now it turns out it is a woman with Cuban exile contacts claiming rape in Sweden. Her code name for this chapter in the WikiLeaks psy-op affair could be ‘Judas’ and her instruction to hang Assange out to dry. The CIA operational sector is infected with anti-Castro exiles to a point of gangrene

It’s time the WikiLeaks program has to be abandoned for the reasons: 1) Assange is out of control and 2) WikiLeaks has been reverse-engineering exposed by demonstrating what is MISSING as opposed to what is present in the leaks, it was an unanticipated development, but one that can gain traction if it is drawn to the attention of enough thinking people

Another red flag is Assange’s mother’s close relationship with the international branch of the ‘The Family.’ If you have any doubts this cult formerly known as ‘The Children of God’ is an associated cell of the organization centered at ‘C Street’ in Washington, DC, also known as “The Family” you only need know the “The Family” [Children of God] children’s choir sang every Christmas at the White House during the Reagan years, that is, until it was exposed for promoting child sex [a specialty of C Street personalities, for members of the Washington DC branch of “The Family” child rape is not a ‘sin’]

Almost certainly the ‘Children of God’ was at least partly born out of the CIA Monarch and MK ULTRA mind control programs which came to the America via USA [Washington, DC] ‘family’ members John and Allen Dulles who’d rescued NAZI war criminals from justice after World War II and employed them at the CIA. CIA projects Monarch and MK ULTRA used NAZI medical research techniques on children, including studies of mind-altered states in children in process of child rapes. Allen Dulles directed the CIA when projects Monarch and MK ULTRA were initiated and 99% of project records were destroyed by the CIA when the program was investigated by Senator Frank Church in the 1970s

Assange is tied directly into the worst of the American neo-con religious-extremist fascist cult that has become international and has been since his childhood. Their program is power over the world, initially through chaos, and then consolidation of power via a religious-extremist controlled police state to bring order out of chaos. The avenues employed are anything that works, including providing child sex and subsequent blackmail. WikiLeaks is a major contributor to chaos, justifying growing national militarization and security apparatus, all the while “Family” aligned politicians disingenuously protest WikiLeaks powerful service to their agenda. But compromised operations must be dismantled and covered-up as effectively as can be, it is a rule of the intelligence game.

The irony is classic. Framed by his own CIA operational sector contact to give credibility to another woman’s legitimate rape claim, taking Assange out of the game. He must have been going out of his wits since August, seeing what was coming and nowhere to turn, absolutely trapped. That’s what you get for sleeping with the devil [working for the CIA operational sector, the most criminal organization on earth]

Nice pedigree behind Julian Assange and WikiLeaks, eh?

30 December 2010 update: It is interesting media has noted the CIA has come through unscathed in the Department of State cables release. This points again to an intelligence ‘black’ psy-ops for the following reason: The Department of State and the CIA are siamese twins, that is State is the cover for every CIA station chief in the world, and many, many more undercover CIA agents use consular or diplomat status or are State employees in the face they present to the public. The top secret cables are compromising everything EXCEPT CIA operatives and operations. People in the Department of State using what they believed was a secure system would have compromised at least some CIA operations, even were the CIA using an altogether system- because people who believe they are secure in their communications are going to discuss these things conveniently, regardless of the system they are on, again, that is when they believe they are secure. People, when feeling secure, relax and are careless, it is human nature. This is one more indication of pre-screened and consequently deliberately skewed information via WikiLeaks

This particular [pentecostal] scourge of torture and murder of accused child “witches” finds its roots in fundamentalism in dark ages or medieval Europe with an initial focus on women. With the ‘enlightenment’ and spread of literacy, the Catholic church lost much of its authority and its ability for public pursuit of the ‘witchcraft’ agenda. However the overt persecution of innocents continued to manifest in extremist breakaway protestant sects which had been largely driven out of Europe and America inherited one of the more extreme of these- the English Puritans [of Cotton Mather fame] from which our modern Pentecostalism is derived and from whence child murder over ‘witchcraft’ has spread to Africa via missionaries. In today’s Catholic church there is a related resurgence of dark ages hate directed at women with a fascist Hitler Youth Corps Pope Ratzinger having only recently made the ordination of a woman equal to being a pedophile in formal church law [related article] Pentecostal and Catholic fundamentalism and related superstitions are both resurgent and this is a great threat to humanity as a whole, not only children and women. However the Pentecostals fundamentalist Catholics may differ in minor details, both believe in literal Armageddon and in today’s world of lethal armaments, it does well to consider where fundamentalism ties to power and politics in a modern weapons world with resurgent dark age superstition gone so far as murdering kids as witches

An excellent history of fundamentalism in America has been recently written by Jeff Sharlet, a New York University researcher and Harper’s Magazine investigative journalist in his work The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

“At the HEART of American Power” Think about that, then read this new article on child torture that has spread from Africa, returning full circle to ENGLAND [read article]

Meanwhile the BBC is reporting a sharp rise in child witch accusations and murders in Africa [read BBC article]

Considering this recent manifestation of dark age superstition is an USA export via missionaries to Africa- what’s worse is the people tied up in this religion in the USA are not gone out of power, it is not only Bush/Cheney and friends, it is Obama National Security Advisor Jones and it is Obama Secretary of Defense Gates and anyone who is paying close attention should wonder how it is Barak and Hillary goose step out in front of Jones and Gates as though Bush/Cheney had never left. Incidental to this, the Secretary of Defense holds the President’s nuclear key as noted by former Colonel Prouty in his The Secret Team -a man who worked for a decade in the Pentagon for the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Colonel Prouty states there is a ’secret team’ working inside government that had not laid its hand on the nuclear trigger “yet” and Colonel Prouty’s secret team matches for “The Family” in our intelligence community and military. Colonel Prouty’s assessment of not holding the nuclear trigger “YET” predates Bush/Cheney and their choice of Robert Gates inherited by Obama as Secretary of Defense

Paying attention?

Here’s just a few more observations relating to a piece I picked up from the AP WIRE

1) This evangelical import to Africa from the USA has supplanted traditional African culture and is preying on superstition and exploiting poverty but it is not limited in a virulent form to Africa.
2) Robert Gates military contractors are infected in a big way [watch video] and the worst of them, Blackwater, has just been given hundreds of millions of dollars in new contracts as private pentecostal armies are being created in the shadow of Iraq and Afghanistan
3) Pentecostal people are not all evil- BUT Christians need to put their house in order, because the worst of the Pentecostals are evil beyond belief. It was pentecostal Bishop Thomas Muthee of Kenya that anointed Sarah Palin as Queen Esther and cast a prayer over her to protect her from “witchcraft” and “make her a way” in politics. In Kenya also there are routine murders of accused witches by pentecostals, not only children, often they are the indigenous African culture’s faith healers. Pentecostal John Ashcroft introduced, via his United States Department of Justice, torture of people of other faith (Muslims) into United States history. John Ashcroft has been identified as a member of The Family

4) Both Sarah Palin and John Ashcroft cut their teeth as Pentecostals in the Assemblies of God church. The Pentecostal belief concerning Muslims is not so different to Pentecostal superstition concerning child witches, the Assemblies of God teach “Muslims are the Children of Satan” [that is for real folks, they have traveling teachers who give 'advanced' Bible studies of which Sarah Palin was a student] All of the people you see mentioned in the The Family article are Pentecostal or fundamentalist Catholic, fear mongers, hate mongers, and intolerant of other beliefs (including many ‘christian’ sects.) The Family includes Senators, Congressmen, Generals et cetera, and their cult heroes are not only Jesus, but Hitler, Mao and Pol Pot. Hitler controlled Germany with 8% of the population, the NAZI party members practicing point 22 of the NAZI Party Platform: “Positive Christianity.” A pentecostal element known as “dominionists” are behind this evil in today’s USA, at more than 12% in today’s populace and representing a wealthy clique in the corporate elite. Pentecostalism is the brand of fundamentalism Obama’s White House “Faith Director” practices and dominionist fundamentalism is what Defense Secretary Robert Gates is force feeding our soldiers and promoting to the highest positions in our armed forces [related article]

5) These murders (article below) are the result of exploiting ignorance and fear. If you think this cannot happen in the USA, think again. The USA is where this has originated, and when you read The Family article you will discover some of the people attempting to make this fear and loathing our nations and the world’s primary faith. This intolerance must be fought. It is not going to be wished away with love and turning the other cheek will not make it go away either.
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Oct 17th, 2009 | EKET, Nigeria — The nine-year-old boy lay on a bloodstained hospital sheet crawling with ants, staring blindly at the wall.

His family pastor had accused him of being a witch, and his father then tried to force acid down his throat as an exorcism. It spilled as he struggled, burning away his face and eyes. The emaciated boy barely had strength left to whisper the name of the church that had denounced him — Mount Zion Lighthouse

A month later, he died

Nwanaokwo Edet was one of an increasing number of children in Africa accused of witchcraft by pastors and then tortured or killed, often by family members. Pastors were involved in half of 200 cases of “witch children” reviewed by the AP, and 13 churches were named in the case files

Some of the churches involved are renegade local branches of international franchises. Their parishioners take literally the Biblical exhortation, “Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live.”

“It is an outrage what they are allowing to take place in the name of Christianity,” said Gary Foxcroft, head of nonprofit Stepping Stones Nigeria

For their part, the families are often extremely poor, and sometimes even relieved to have one less mouth to feed. Poverty, conflict and poor education lay the foundation for accusations, which are then triggered by the death of a relative, the loss of a job or the denunciation of a pastor on the make, said Martin Dawes, a spokesman for the United Nations Children’s Fund

“When communities come under pressure, they look for scapegoats,” he said. “It plays into traditional beliefs that someone is responsible for a negative change … and children are defenseless.”

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The idea of witchcraft is hardly new, but it has taken on new life recently partly because of a rapid growth in evangelical Christianity. Campaigners against the practice say around 15,000 children have been accused in two of Nigeria’s 36 states over the past decade and around 1,000 have been murdered. In the past month alone, three Nigerian children accused of witchcraft were killed and another three were set on fire

Nigeria is one of the heartlands of abuse, but hardly the only one: the United Nations Children’s Fund says tens of thousands of children have been targeted throughout Africa

Church signs sprout around every twist of the road snaking through the jungle between Uyo, the capital of the southern Akwa Ibom state where Nwanaokwo lay, and Eket, home to many more rejected “witch children.” Churches outnumber schools, clinics and banks put together. Many promise to solve parishioner’s material worries as well as spiritual ones — eight out of ten Nigerians struggle by on less than $2 a day

“Poverty must catch fire,” insists the Born 2 Rule Crusade on one of Uyo’s main streets

“Where little shots become big shots in a short time,” promises the Winner’s Chapel down the road

“Pray your way to riches,” advises Embassy of Christ a few blocks away

It’s hard for churches to carve out a congregation with so much competition. So some pastors establish their credentials by accusing children of witchcraft

Nwanaokwo said he knew the pastor who accused him only as Pastor King. Mount Zion Lighthouse in Nigeria at first confirmed that a Pastor King worked for them, then denied that they knew any such person

Bishop A.D. Ayakndue, the head of the church in Nigeria, said pastors were encouraged to pray about witchcraft, but not to abuse children

“We pray over that problem (of witchcraft) very powerfully,” he said. “But we can never hurt a child.”

The Nigerian church is a branch of a Californian church by the same name. But the California church says it lost touch with its Nigerian offshoots several years ago

“I had no idea,” said church elder Carrie King by phone from Tracy, Calif. “I knew people believed in witchcraft over there but we believe in the power of prayer, not physically harming people.”

The Mount Zion Lighthouse — also named by three other families as the accuser of their children — is part of the powerful Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria. The Fellowship’s president, Ayo Oritsejafor, said the Fellowship was the fastest-growing religious group in Nigeria, with more than 30 million members

“We have grown so much in the past few years we cannot keep an eye on everybody,” he explained

But Foxcroft, the head of Stepping Stones, said if the organization was able to collect membership fees, it could also police its members better. He had already written to the organization twice to alert it to the abuse, he said. He suggested the fellowship ask members to sign forms denouncing abuse or hold meetings to educate pastors about the new child rights law in the state of Akwa Ibom, which makes it illegal to denounce children as witches. Similar laws and education were needed in other states, he said

Sam Itauma of the Children’s Rights and Rehabilitation Network said it is the most vulnerable children — the orphaned, sick, disabled or poor — who are most often denounced. In Nwanaokwo’s case, his poor father and dead mother made him an easy target

“Even churches who didn’t use to ‘find’ child witches are being forced into it by the competition,” said Itauma. “They are seen as spiritually powerful because they can detect witchcraft and the parents may even pay them money for an exorcism.”

That’s what Margaret Eyekang did when her 8-year-old daughter Abigail was accused by a “prophet” from the Apostolic Church, because the girl liked to sleep outside on hot nights — interpreted as meaning she might be flying off to join a coven. A series of exorcisms cost Eyekang eight months’ wages, or US$270. The payments bankrupted her

Neighbors also attacked her daughter

“They beat her with sticks and asked me why I was bringing them a witch child,” she said. A relative offered Eyekang floor space but Abigail was not welcome and had to sleep in the streets

Members of two other families said pastors from the Apostolic Church had accused their children of witchcraft, but asked not to be named for fear of retaliation

The Nigeria Apostolic Church refused repeated requests made by phone, e-mail and in person for comment

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At first glance, there’s nothing unusual about the laughing, grubby kids playing hopscotch or reading from a tattered Dick and Jane book by the graffiti-scrawled cinderblock house. But this is where children like Abigail end up after being labeled witches by churches and abandoned or tortured by their families

There’s a scar above Jane’s shy smile: her mother tried to saw off the top of her skull after a pastor denounced her and repeated exorcisms costing a total of $60 didn’t cure her of witchcraft. Mary, 15, is just beginning to think about boys and how they will look at the scar tissue on her face caused when her mother doused her in caustic soda. Twelve-year-old Rachel dreamed of being a banker but instead was chained up by her pastor, starved and beaten with sticks repeatedly; her uncle paid him $60 for the exorcism

Israel’s cousin tried to bury him alive, Nwaekwa’s father drove a nail through her head, and sweet-tempered Jerry — all knees, elbows and toothy grin — was beaten by his pastor, starved, made to eat cement and then set on fire by his father as his pastor’s wife cheered it on

The children at the home run by Itauma’s organization have been mutilated as casually as the praying mantises they play with. Home officials asked for the children’s last names not to be used to protect them from retaliation

The home was founded in 2003 with seven children; it now has 120 to 200 at any given time as children are reconciled with their families and new victims arrive

Helen Ukpabio is one of the few evangelists publicly linked to the denunciation of child witches. She heads the enormous Liberty Gospel church in Calabar, where Nwanaokwo used to live. Ukpabio makes and distributes popular books and DVDs on witchcraft; in one film, a group of child witches pull out a man’s eyeballs. In another book, she advises that 60 percent of the inability to bear children is caused by witchcraft

In an interview with the AP, Ukpabio is accompanied by her lawyer, church officials and personal film crew

“Witchcraft is real,” Ukpabio insisted, before denouncing the physical abuse of children. Ukpabio says she performs non-abusive exorcisms for free and was not aware of or responsible for any misinterpretation of her materials

“I don’t know about that,” she declared

However, she then acknowledged that she had seen a pastor from the Apostolic Church break a girl’s jaw during an exorcism. Ukpabio said she prayed over her that night and cast out the demon. She did not respond to questions on whether she took the girl to hospital or complained about the injury to church authorities

After activists publicly identified Liberty Gospel as denouncing “child witches,” armed police arrived at Itauma’s home accompanied by a church lawyer. Three children were injured in the fracas. Itauma asked that other churches identified by children not be named to protect their victims

“We cannot afford to make enemies of all the churches around here,” he said. “But we know the vast majority of them are involved in the abuse even if their headquarters aren’t aware.”

Just mentioning the name of a church is enough to frighten a group of bubbly children at the home

“Please stop the pastors who hurt us,” said Jerry quietly, touching the scars on his face. “I believe in God and God knows I am not a witch.”