[antimedia] IsHRW's Mark Garlasko Unqualified re: Gaza Beach?: Bruce Kesler at DemocracyProject

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Bruce--I wonder how many diseased minds like Garlasko are running loose at
DIA, CIA, the 5-sided bldg, etc, not to mention the Dept of State? And what
they tell, given their high level clearance--to whom?   Phil

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June 15, 2006


FLASH!:  <http://www.democracy-project.com/archives/002604.html> HRW's Mark
Garlasko Unqualified to Judge Gaza Beach?



(Before going further, I don't personally know the details of Mark
Garlasko's personnel file at the Defense Intelligence Agency, nor do I
personally know the person who claims to have worked with Garlasko there.
The sources through whom I received this are known to me as sane and
credible, but until more is revealed the question remains. I urge them and
the DIA, and Garlasko and HRW to completely address this quickly.)

Mark Garlasko, a day after the incident at the Gaza beach, under the eyes
and help of Palestinians, contradicted the detailed results and evidence of
the Israeli investigation. Never mind that his "physical evidence" was
different than what appeared on film the day before. Never mind that it well
may have been placed there for him by the Palestinians, not an unknown
activity of theirs.

Now, never mind, that Mark Garlasko's technical qualifications to make such
a judgment may be questionable. The world's media echoed him.


A yet unnamed military intelligence person who worked with Mark Garlasko in
the prewar targeting effort at the Defense Intelligence Agency, a friend of
his reports in an email I received, 



"is not technically qualified to point to a depression in the sand on Gaza
beach and state uncategorically that it was caused by an Israeli 155 MM
round. Why? He had no scientific training required to do bomb damage
assessessment - typically a USAF function."

 <http://www.motherjones.com/radio/2005/10/garlasco_bio.html> Mark Garlasko
is billed as: 



the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch (HRW), and is HRW's
resident expert on battle damage assessment, military operations, and
interrogations. Marc also leads HRW's work on Abu Ghurayb, civilian military
contractors, and non-lethal weapons. 



Before coming to HRW, Marc spent seven years in the Pentagon as a senior
intelligence analyst covering Iraq. His last position there was chief of
high-value targeting during the Iraq War in 2003. Marc was on the Operation
Desert Fox (Iraq) Battle Damage Assessment team in 1998, led a Pentagon
Battle Damage Assessment team to Kosovo in 1999, and recommended thousands
of aimpoints on hundreds of targets during operations in Iraq and Serbia. He
also participated in over 50 interrogations as a subject matter expert.


I could not find a bio of Garlasko at the Human Rights Watch website, so
this one from MotherJones is similar to the billing he's given in other
publications. 

Very impressive, on the surface, if true. Now, there's some real doubt that
Mr. Garlasko should explain.

 <http://hnn.us/blogs/entries/26678.html> Mr. Garlasko's rush to judgment on
the Marines at Haditha ("What happened at Haditha appears to be outright
murder.") was admitted by him that he had "no idea of the facts." 

Is that so again, and shouldn't he and Human Rights Watch quickly clarify
whether he is similarly shooting off his mouth and the U.S. and Israel
unjustly?


- Bruce  <mailto:Bnksd1 at aol.com> Kesler  | Jun. 15, 2006 | 11:48 AM 



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