A Bombing, Illegal Surveillance Against us, and my Gratitude 🙏🌷

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International solidarity with Palestine and global Direct Action activists are still assessing the new situation since Israel bombed the solidarity ship to Gaza named "Conscience", just off the shores of Malta a few days ago. It's no wonder that some prefer to refer to the aggressor here as "Israhell".

The bombing and its surrounding events are closely related to our organization, Cyprus IndyMedia, and to me personally, by way of complicated history of illegal surveillance against us hidden in the shadows. Until recently.

A short summary of the recent events and more details [1]:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://timesofmalta.com/article/why-gazabound-aid-ship-attacked-near-malta.1109225

Video of the drone bombing attack here [2]:
■ Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHotRDIwWws

As you can tell, the news item was suppressed, or "under-reported", so you would not read or hear about it unless you were already informed and engaged in deliberate search for it.

Fortunately no one was killed in this attack. But the bombing is indicative of the attitude that Prime Minister Satanyahu has imposed on all efforts to help the Palestinian people: just like in the year 2010, when Israel illegally raided the unarmed Gaza Freedom Flotilla, killing ten people and wounding thirty - all of them on the solidarity ship "Mavi Marmara" - arresting about 600 people and seizing the six ships comprising the Flotilla.

Satanyahu's message is his willingness to bomb and kill any international activists attempting to bring food or medicine to Gaza.

The current situation is a lot more dangerous than it was in 2010 because Israel is now wholly engaged and committed to full-scale slaughter, extermination of the innocents, mayhem and genocide while THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING.


There are more parallels to the 2010 story but I will only mention one here:

The Government of Cyprus, which at the time was in the hands of a "progressive", fake-leftist party named AKEL and President Christofias ENABLED the slaughter by cracking down on our Palestine solidarity networks that were based in the free part of Cyprus. Cyprus security forces physically chased away the Flotilla, forcing it to seek support from the Turkish Government in the illegally occupied part of Cyprus - Turkey had already completed an invasion, occupation, and ETHNIC CLEANSING of Cyprus, the same kind of ethnic cleansing that Satanyahu's Israel is attempting to carry out in Gaza:
■ "This is the Cyprus Police Helicopter..."
https://cyprusindymedia.blogspot.com/2010/05/this-is-cyprus-police-helicopter.html

Malta now seems to be involved in some similar game, oscillating between "supporting" and repulsing the solidarity Ship to Gaza, dissembling and prevaricating as its Government attempts to conceal a possible collaboration with the zionist forces (US and Israel) acting together on a global scale.


The events leading up to the slaughter of the international solidarity activists in 2010 included a tremendous amount of espionage, illegal surveillance, sabotage, and co-ordination by the US /State Department /CIA and Israhell /Mossad /Shin Bet security services, with some tiny "players" like the fake-leftist Government of Cyprus during that period.

Our activist networks for the Ships to Gaza /Fleet to Gaza /Free Gaza flotilla solidarity campaigns during the mid-to-late 2000s were all targeted with extensive surveillance by the dark forces named above. And...

My gratitude 🌷

I would like to extend deep, profound, sincere and heartfelt GRATITUDE to some of our comrades and allies in the US whose work in this process is almost unknown in our parts of the Muddled East and the Mediterranean. I'm referring specifically to the volunteers, staff, and supporters of the US-based Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), who, immediately after the 2010 slaughter on the ship Mavi Marmara and the total disruption of the Flotilla launched a head-on confrontation with the US Government for its role in the slaughter.

CCR took the US to Court, and at the end of a legal and administrative battle that lasted for about nine years, was able to uncover some of the most extensive and devious, disgusting aspects of the operations against us... proving once again that without active military, financial, political and intelligence support from US imperialism Israel would not be able to carry out any of its atrocities. And without that support it would probably collapse in a day.

CCR's legal victory forced the US Government to release THOUSANDS of pages of its surveillance documents.

Among them there was clear evidence that my emails came under surveillance.
TWO FULL YEARS BEFORE the lethal attack against the Free Gaza flotilla.

My name, along with that of many other friends and comrades in the Free Gaza solidarity networks who took risks to carry on projects, is featured in some of the espionage documents.

The fact that the spy agencies felt comfortable to release my name without drawing a black line over it to "redact" this act of surveillance, implies that targeting me is only an insignificant tiny tip of the iceberg. Targeting Cyprus branch of the global network of independent journalism, IndyMedia, is more serious. Fortunately our other Editorial Collective members, supporters, and friends of Cyprus IndyMedia were not named individually.

The pages we reproduce here are only four out of the THOUSANDS of pages produced by the illegal surveillance operations targeting our networks. We provide the links below so that you can study all of the if you like on the CCR website.

Some of the people involved in this particular chapter of espionage who mentioned in the papers:
o- John Carlino, was a "diplomat", serving in Cyprus as a Section Sead in the Consular section of the US Embassy.
o- Shawn Sherlock was a Diplomatic Security Special Agent.
o- Gregory Makris was Head of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy, Cyprus [4].
o- Nick Nicoletopoulos, Security Coordinator at the U.S. Embassy, Cyprus [5].

The email from me that was intercepted by the spies mentions the specific death threats we were all receiving at the time, the acts of sabotage, the threats for a BOMBING.

We reproduce here those four pages generated by that particular illegal surveillance operation. If you prefer to read them directly on the CCR website, you can find my name and Cyprus IndyMedia mentioned towards the end of this particular packet of documents, along with a letter from me that is reproduced by the spies in its entirety, at this address (you may need to use the "Find" function of your browser):
■ Dept of State_2014_005900-006078_0
https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/02/DeptofState_2014_005900-006078_0.pdf

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The legal case against the US Government, is explained here by the CCR staff:
■ CCR v. Department of Defense/Gaza Freedom Flotilla FOIA
https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/our-cases/ccr-v-department-defensegaza-freedom-flotilla-foia

The main page of the CCR:
■ Center for Constitutional Rights
https://ccrjustice.org/

With gratitude to CCR, and above all to the martyrs who gave their lives on the Free Gaza Flotilla, 🌷🙏

ALL EYES ON GAZA,
Petros Evdokas, petros@cyprus-org.net

NOTES, SOURCES, LINKS

[1]:
This news item was archived here:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://archive.md/Z1B2l
and here:
■ Why was a Gaza-bound aid ship attacked near Malta?
https://web.archive.org/web/20250506092338/https://timesofmalta.com/article/why-gazabound-aid-ship-attacked-near-malta.1109225

[2]:
Unfortunately video files are not archived online, but at least the pages on which they are published can still leave an archived trace even if Youtube deletes them in the future:
■ Gaza humanitarian aid ship bombed by drones in waters off Malta - YouTube
https://web.archive.org/web/20250503203516/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHotRDIwWws

[3].
■ Wikileaks Diplomatic Cable: Updated Contact Information From Post
https://wikileaks.jcvignoli.com/cable_07NICOSIA822?amp=1

[4].
■ Gregory Makris | Head of the Political Section at the U.S. Embassy Nicosia, Cyprus | Volume 5 issue 6 – G.Makris – CCEIA
https://www.unic.ac.cy/cceia/volume-5-issue-6-g-makris/

[5].
"Security Coordinator
Department Of State/Nicosia, Cyprus
Jan 2006 - Jan 2009
        Perform planning and programming actions for the Regional Security Officer. Responsible for overall management of the Local Guard Force (LGF) program by ensuring staff assistance visits, annual plans reviews and all required training/documentation are completed and current for all plans and directives. Serves as focal point for the Embassy on all Security Plan issues and purchase agreements regarding the LGF. Provides immediate level supervision to subordinates. Selects or recommends selection of candidates for vacancies, promotions, details, and reassignments in consideration of skills and qualifications, mission requirements, and EEO/MEO and diversity objectives. Develops, modifies and/or interpret performance standards. Hears and resolves complaints and effects minor disciplinary measures. I implement the required level of local guard coverage for all Embassy properties. I make decisions affecting the content and character of the local guard force. I assess the effectiveness of host government provided security services. I evaluate the local guard contractor's performance on a recurrent basis and formally once each year prior to contract renewal, providing results of these evaluations to the RSO. I train the Local Guard Force personnel including orientation to the Embassy and describe assets to be protected, role of the guard force in case of fire, explosions, bomb search and building evacuation, chemical and/or biological awareness, and countermeasures briefings, operation of explosive detectors and x-ray equipment, and imminent danger recognition/resolution. I contact the contract guard force managers including the project managers and guard force commander for any contract related issues. I review reports generated by the contractor including incident reports, surveillance detection reports, and explosive detection reports and X-ray inspection equipment operation reports."
■ Nick Nicoletopoulos | LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-nicoletopoulos-053b2133/


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