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The War of Terror at work - an Iraqi prisoner is the subject of potentially lethal torture research by the US Army captors in Abu Ghraib

2003 saw an alliance of nations attack Iraq, in large part to facilitate the easy extraction of its oil. This invasion was widely protested before it happened. David Kelly, who was writing a book, was suicided.

Death of David Kelly

Full article: David Kelly/Death

On 17 July 2003, a UK government whistleblower and weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kelly was found dead in the woods near his house. Ah inquest into his death was started but never completed. The UK government's official narrative is that he committed suicide, but many voices have suggested that this seems implausible and/or impossible.

Iraq War

Full article: 2003 Iraq War

Tony Blair conspired with George W. Bush to launch an illegal war on Iraq.

In 2003, an illegal war of aggression was carried out by the US leadership, with the collaboration of others such as Tony Blair. This was responsible for the violent deaths of over a million Iraqis, and led millions more to flee the country. These actions were found to be war crimes by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission and are widely seen as such by a lot of the world's population.

Abu Ghraib

Full article: Abu Ghraib

In 2003, the US was revealed to be systematically torturing prisoners in a prison in Abu Ghraib. Although this was not revealed at the time, it emerged in 2004 that the atrocities were part of a program (codename Copper Green) that was ordered by Donald Rumsfeld of research into the effect of carrying out and of suffering torture. Tom Malinowski, the director of Human Rights Watch would later comment about a leaked document that “If anyone still thinks that the only people who dreamt up the idea about torturing prisoners were just some privates and corporals at Abu Ghraib, this document should put that myth to rest.”

Arrest of Willem Matser

Full article: Willem Matser

In 2003, Willem Matser, a Dutch spook, and "key advisor" to NATO Secretary General was arrested with documents relating to a $200,000,000 money transfer from Bogota, Colombia, together with a convicted cocaine dealer, Pietro Fedino connected to the Cali cartel. A year later, Matser was found guilty of forgery and fraud and released with time served plus a 3 months' suspended sentence.

 

Events

Event	Start	End	Description
Contaminated blood affair	1983	2003	For several years in the 1980s France knowingly exported tainted blood, killing thousands.
Al-Yamamah arms deal	September 1985	August 2006	A complex series of multi billion dollar arms for oil deals set up under the government of Margaret Thatcher, involving a bunch of deep state arms dealers, and her son - who earned £12 million. Fines levied have been in the hundreds of millions, while kickbacks amount to billions.
Operation Mass Appeal	1990	2003	An effort by MI6 to facilitate the UK's invasion of Iraq.
Foster child drug trials	1992	2004	National Institutes of Health and Big Pharma force fed experimental pharmaceuticals to infants, toddlers, children and teenagers in New York and elsewhere in the United States.
International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda	8 November 1994	31 December 2016
Saville Inquiry	1998	24 March 2010	An investigation into Bloody Sunday which left 14 people dead.
TOPOFF	2000	2009	A series of week long "counter-terrorism" exercises
Peru/Truth and Reconciliation Commission	June 2001	28 August 2003	An attempt to restore a functioning and non-criminal government to Peru. Reported that 69,280 people were killed between 1980 and 2000.
Afghanistan/2001 Invasion	7 October 2001	30 August 2021	The war in Afghanistan, instigated within a month of 9/11, supposedly in retaliation, with the claimed justification - for which no evidence has been presented - that the attacks were planned by Ossama bin Laden, and that he was based in Afghanistan.
Cory Collusion Inquiry	May 2002	April 2004
2003 Iraq War	2003		A war for oil carried out after "Operation Mass Appeal" an MI6-backed propaganda campaign.
Le Cercle/2003 (Salzburg)	2003	2003
CONTEST	2003
2003 El Nogal Club bombing	7 February 2003	7 February 2003	A murderous bomb in Colombia which as "investigated" by Cabal cover-up artist, Mete Sozen.
Bilderberg/2003	15 May 2003	18 May 2003	The 51st Bilderberg, in Versailles, France
David Kelly/Assassination/Hutton Inquiry	1 August 2003	28 January 2004

 

New Groups

Group	Image	Type	Description
UK/FCO/Strategic Programme Fund
Freedom Institute
Canada/Conservative Party			Political party in Canada
Frontline Club			A venue used by the Institute for Statecraft/Integrity Initiative. Founded by former military officer turned "independent" journalist.
Capital Partners Securities
Jean-Jacques Rousseau Institute			Neoconservative French think tank
Compass
Sigrid Rausing Trust
Civita			Norwegian (neo)liberal think tank
University of the Arts London		Public	English public university comprising of six colleges specializing in the fields of art, design, fashion and media.
CANVAS		NGO
Great Transition Initiative
University of Antwerp			Major Belgian university located in the city of Antwerp
Theranos			American pharma company that was touted as a breakthrough health technology company. Possibly a CIA front company, for an unknown purpose.
Islamic State		Front "Terrorist"	An "Islamic fundamentalist terrorist" organisation which whistleblower Sibel Edmonds links to Operation Gladio/B and succinctly describes as a re-branding of al-Qaeda.
Arab Human Rights Centre in Golan Heights			Human rights organisation that operates in the occupied Golan Heights.
Jewish Leadership Council
HBGary			Company that developed sophisticated software for the control of sock puppets.
Lowy Institute			Australian military-industrial think tank
9/11 CitizensWatch
Tax Justice Network
Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre		Intelligence agency	The Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre reports to the head of MI5 although it is not formally part of the Security Service.
Active Change Foundation			Spooky charity that worked closely with the Institute for Statecraft on "de-radicalisation"
United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team
Center for American Progress			A very well funded US think tank and advocacy organization closely aligned with the Democratic Party establishment.
Canada Border Services Agency			Canadian federal agency that is responsible for border protection and surveillance, immigration enforcement and customs services.

 

New Websites

Event	Image	URL	Description
OpEdNews		http://www.opednews.com/	Named as an outlet of "Fake News" by PropOrNot.
Axis of Logic		http://www.axisoflogic.com/	Website that was "committed to publishing news and commentary that is often not presented in the major news outlets". Exists in archived form since 2022.
Spinwatch		http://spinwatch.org
SourceWatch		http://www.SourceWatch.org	This wiki based site is a source of content and was an inspiration when setting up Wikispooks. It remains a recommended site when researching Wikispooks related content.
LinkedIn		https://www.linkedin.com	A businessy Facebook equivalent, with over 350 million members
9-11 Research		http://911research.wtc7.net	A solid and early 9-11 investigation site, not much updated of late, but still containing valuable material.
Yacy		https://yacy.net	An open source decentralised web crawler
Wikimedia Foundation		https://wikimediafoundation.org/	Owners of Wikipedia
4chan		https://www.4channel.org/	4Chan is a website where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.

 

Groups that were Wound Up

Group	Image	Type	Description
PowderJect			British manufacturer of dodgy vaccines who got contracts through Labour Party donations
Immigration and Naturalization Service
Operation Green Quest
Office of Special Plans

 

==Quotations== 

Deaths

Title	Born	Died	Place of death	Cause of death	Summary	Description
George Younger	22 September 1931	January 2003	Scotland Leckie House Gargunnock		Politician
Geoffrey Tucker		2003			Propagandist
Duncan Oppenheim	6 August 1904	January 2003	London United Kingdom		Businessperson	Attended two Bilderbergs in the 1950s as Chairman of British American Tobacco, and the 1968 Bilderberg as chairman of Chatham House
Andre de Staercke	1913	2003			Diplomat	Attended the 1969 Bilderberg as Belgian Permanent Representative to NATO
Francesco Cingano	1922	2003	Milan		Banker Businessperson	Italian businessman and financier
Ray Lemme		2003
Roy Jenkins	11 November 1920	5 January 2003	United Kingdom Oxfordshire			UK politician
Sarah McClendon	8 July 1910	8 January 2003			Journalist
Douglas Dillon	21 August 1909	10 January 2003	New York United States New York-Presbyterian Hospital		Diplomat Politician Deep state operative	Bilderberg, Brookings, Committee on the Present Danger, CFR, US/Secretary of the Treasury...
Allan Nunn May	2 May 1911	12 January 2003			Spook Physicist	British physicist convicted Soviet spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic research to the Soviet Union during World War II.
Françoise Giroud	21 September 1916	19 January 2003	France Neuilly-sur-Seine		Author Politician	French politician of the non-Gaullist right.
Gianni Agnelli	12 March 1921	24 January 2003	Italy Turin		Deep politician Businessperson	Italian industrialist, 37 Bilderbergs
Hugh Trevor-Roper	15 January 1914	26 January 2003	United Kingdom Oxford Oxfordshire UK		Spook Historian
Edward Korry	7 January 1922	29 January 2003			Diplomat	"Not a nut or bolt shall reach Chile under Allende. Once Allende comes to power we shall do all within our power to condemn Chile and all Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty"
Walt Rostow	7 October 1916	13 February 2003	Texas Austin		Spook Economist Deep state functionary	Suspected US deep state functionary member of The Georgetown Set
Fulvio Martini	26 February 1923	15 February 2003			Spook Mariner	Admiral Fulvio Martini headed the Italian intelligence service SISMI for over 6 years.
Isser Harel	1912	18 February 2003			Spook
Orville Freeman	9 May 1918	20 February 2003	United States Minnesota Minneapolis		Politician	Governor of Minnesota 1955-1961, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1961-1969.
Edward Grandry	3 August 2014	9 March 2003			Diplomat	Belgian diplomat. Director of cabinet for Henri Fayat.
Tom Boardman	12 January 1919	10 March 2003			Soldier Politician Financier	UK soldier politician banker who attended the 1986 Bilderberg
Zoran Đinđić	1 August 1952	12 March 2003	Serbia Belgrade		Politician	Prime Minister of Serbia. Assassinated, not necessarily by his opponents: "the moor has done his duty. The moor can go"....
Olivier Long	11 October 1915	19 March 2003			Diplomat	Swiss Director-General of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, an organization for opening up protected national markets.
Paul Moran	30 May 1963	22 March 2003	Iraq Iraqi Kurdistan	Car bomb	Spook Journalist Propagandist	Australian spook who worked for the Rendon Group under journalistic cover. He made a television interview for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with an Iraqi defector that helped create the pretext for the 2003 Iraq Invasion. Died under murky circumstances.
Paolo Vittorelli	9 July 1915	24 March 2003	Turin Piedmont		Journalist Politician	Italian centre-left politician and TLC member who attended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1960s. Worked with the British during WW2. First president of the Institute for Research and Defense Information Studies.
Daniel Moynihan	16 March 1927	26 March 2003	Washington DC		Diplomat Sociologist	US diplomat who pushed the "war on terror"
Hugh Liedtke	10 February 1922	28 March 2003	United States Texas Houston		Lawyer Businessperson	Hugh and his brother Bill co-founded the Zapata Corporation in 1953 together with George H. W. Bush
Anthony Masters	14 December 1940	4 April 2003			Author
Arthur Knight	29 March 1917	5 April 2003	West Sussex Chichester		Businessperson	UK businessman who attended the 1977 Bilderberg
Aubrey Jones	20 November 1911	10 April 2003			Spook Politician	Spooky UK politician who attended the 1974 Bilderberg
Brian Nelson	30 September 1947	11 April 2003	United Kingdom		Spook	An agent of the British Army's Force Research Unit and senior intelligence officer in the loyalist paramilitary Ulster Defence Association.
Walter Raymond Jr	1929	16 April 2003		Cancer	Spook Propagandist	Second generation Cercle visitor
Sergei Yushenkov	27 June 1950	17 April 2003		Gunshot	Politician Russian apartment bombings/Premature death	A member of the ill-fated Kovalev Commission who was assassinated.
James Critchfield	30 January 1917	22 April 2003	US Virginia Williamsburg	Cancer	Spook	Senior CIA spook who handled Reinhard Gehlen. Then Near East Division Chief from 1959 to 1969 where he arranged a coup in Iraq. Le Cercle
Guido Giannettini	22 August 1930	May 2003			Spook
Russell Long	3 November 1918	9 May 2003	Washington DC		Politician Lawyer	Senate Majority Whip who was sexually blackmailed to prevent exposure of the real killers of JFK.
John Rousselot	1 November 1927	11 May 2003	California Irvine		Politician
Sadruddin Aga Khan	17 January 1933	12 May 2003	Boston Massachusetts		Spook	Specialist in running intelligence operations under humanitarian cover. Club of Rome member.
John Whitehorn	19 May 1924	30 May 2003			Lobbyist
Laurence O'Keeffe	9 July 1931	June 2003			Diplomat Propagandist
Günter Poser	23 September 1916	3 June 2003	Bonn-Röttgen		Mariner	Attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1984 as a retired admiral.
Jürgen Möllemann	15 July 1945	5 June 2003		Parachute accident	Politician	Well known politician during his time. Critic of Israeli PM Ariel Sharon. Died in a "parachute accident".
Donald Regan	21 December 1918	10 June 2003	Virginia Williamsburg		Politician Businessperson
Brian Downing Quig	1945	16 June 2003		Car crash	Researcher Whistleblower Journalist	Deep politics researcher who publicised CIA drug trafficking. Fatal hit by a car in 2003.
Leon Uris	3 August 1924	21 June 2003			Author Propagandist	US author and propagandist for Israel. Probably made propaganda for the CIA as well.
Piet Dankert	8 January 1934	21 June 2003			Politician	Dutch politician who attended the 1967 Bilderberg. President of the European Parliament 1982-84
Strom Thurmond	5 December 1902	26 June 2003	United States South Carolina Edgefield		Politician
Denis Thatcher	10 May 1915	26 June 2003			Businessperson	Husband of Margaret Thatcher
Anthony Poshepny	18 September 1924	27 June 2003	United States California		Spook	"I used to collect ears... I had a big, green, reinforced cellophane bag as you walked up my steps."
Floyd Fithian	3 November 1928	27 June 2003			Politician	US congressman and one of the fourteen members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
Graham Wilkins		2 July 2003			Businessperson
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Births

Title	Born	Place of birth	Summary	Description
Greta Thunberg	3 January 2003		Activist Propagandist	Swedish teenage environmental activist who was selected by powerful interests to be the face of "climate change activism".
Madeleine McCann	12 May 2003	Leicester UK	Missing person	"The most heavily reported missing person case in modern history"

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