Saturday, June 06, 2009

The CIA's Truth Problem



The CIA's Truth Problem

The United States has been trying to run a secret intelligence service in an open democracy for sixty years. It depends on trust between politicians and spies, two professions known to wrestle with truth. Trust has been broken time and again.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s recent charge that the CIA lied to her about the torture of suspected terrorists under President George W. Bush has started a whirlwind of spin. The big lie–President Bush said the United States didn’t torture, though we did–has been lost in the maelstrom. So has a harsh truth: yes, the CIA has stonewalled and deceived Congress in the past, but Congress is stone deaf and derelict in overseeing the CIA.

Pelosi’s old Congressional colleague Leon Panetta, who runs the CIA, wants to set things right. “There’s been a lot of poison in the well,” Panetta said on May 18, and “it hurts this country” when “Congress and the CIA don’t feel like they’re partners.” He said he would commune with his Congressional overseers, hash things out in private, talk with them “in a way in which we can be honest with one another.”

Good luck, Leon. Others have gone before you.

Like it or not, the United States needs trustworthy intelligence. But spying is a dirty and dangerous business. The CIA depends on officers who know how to lie, cheat and steal–”to use deception, to use manipulation, to use, frankly, dishonesty,” in the words of former CIA general counsel Jeffrey Smith. But when things go wrong overseas–as they often do–the CIA is called to account in Washington from time to time. That’s where things really go wrong.

The CIA is “an organization that thrives on deception,” says John Hamre, former deputy secretary of defense. “How do you manage an organization like that?” Congress hasn’t had the will or the wherewithal to do it....ever since the Siamese twins came to be one and the same.... CIA/MOSSAD.....and OSP/AMAN......

Congress created the CIA in 1947, and for a generation most of its members did as Senator John Stennis advised: “Make up your mind that you are going to have an intelligence agency and protect it as such, and shut your eyes some, and take what is coming.” Then a newly anointed president, Gerald Ford, let slip that the CIA had run lethal plots against foreign leaders, which would tarnish every president since Harry Truman....., CIA has an institutional joint venture with Syria's military intelligence goons for special operations and political assassinations through the infamous White House Murder INC, CIA used this Syrian conduit to bomb the PANAM 103 flight over Lockerbie and recently the string of assassinations in Lebanon and Syria, starting with the savage assassination of ex-minister Mr. Elie HOBEIKA and 3 of his companions on January 24th 2002......[ The threesome of assassins CIA/MOSSAD and Asef SHAWKAT...]

http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html

Ford looked back in some anguish on this; he had been a Congressman when called to serve on the Warren Commission, which looked into the assassination of President Kennedy. Late in life he reflected on the CIA’s keeping secrets from the commission–notably its plots against President Kennedy. It was “unconscionable” that the CIA was “not giving us the full story,” Ford said....

But when he was in the White House, Ford feared that the truth about the past would destroy the CIA and damage the United States. That same kind of fear is drowning out calls for a truth commission on the conduct of the “war on terror.”

“The question is how to plan to meet the investigation of the CIA,” Ford mused at a White House meeting in February 1975. His chief of staff, Donald Rumsfeld, called for “a damage-limiting operation” to save the secrets from spilling in Congress. The man Ford chose to run the CIA–George H.W. Bush–tried his best. But no one protected former CIA director Richard Helms. He drew a two-year suspended sentence in 1977 on a federal charge of deceiving Congress about his orders from President Nixon to overthrow the government of Chile.

Helms had an obligation to testify truthfully, but he thought he had a higher oath to keep secrets. America’s political history turned on which oath mattered more. For the past thirty years, Congress has fought for the right to oversee the CIA. It has failed to fulfill its responsibilities.

Before President Reagan took office, in 1981, Congress created intelligence oversight committees in the Senate and the House. Reagan’s CIA chief, William Casey, foiled them for six years. “Casey was guilty of contempt of Congress from the day he was sworn in,” said Robert Gates, Casey’s number-two man, now defense secretary. Casey obfuscated gleefully before the intelligence committees; his senior officers testified evasively. Among the consequences was the Iran/Contra affair, which blew up in late 1986. The spectacle of the United States caught shipping weapons to Iran, skimming the profits and slipping the money to anticommunists in Central America came close to wrecking Reagan’s presidency.

From 1986 to ‘94, the CIA sent ninety-five highly classified reports on Moscow’s military strength to the White House. Senior CIA officials knew some of the data were manipulated by Moscow and designed to deceive the United States. They decided it didn’t matter. The discovery of this deception in 1995 was “incredible” and “shocking,” said Fred Hitz, then the CIA’s inspector general. “What came out of this whole episode was a feeling that the agency couldn’t be trusted.” The CIA had broken “the sacred trust,” said Hitz, “and without that, no espionage agency can do its job.”

Starting in 1995, the CIA used the Peruvian air force to shoot down airplanes suspected of carrying cocaine. In April 2001, the operation attacked a plane carrying a family of Michigan missionaries over the Amazon. Veronica Bowers, 35, and her daughter, Charity, seven months old, were killed. CIA inspector general John Helgerson reported that CIA officers had violated presidential orders controlling the operation and hid their misdeeds from Congress, the Justice Department and the National Security Council.

Seven years after the shoot-down, Peter Hoekstra–the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, now running for governor of Michigan–published a few damning paragraphs from the report. He called it evidence that the CIA “operates outside the law and covers up what it does and lies to Congress.” That’s what Pelosi said about torture.

Now, on orders from President Obama to dismantle and defeat Al Qaeda, the CIA is killing suspected terrorists with remote-controlled missiles fired from drone aircraft above Pakistan and Afghanistan. The CIA decides if it has hit the right targets and whether civilian deaths are acceptable. Do we want to live in a world where the CIA’s clandestine service has the authority to decide who lives and who dies? The idea that the CIA may be killing civilians, sparking an ever wider war, is too hot for Congress to handle.

Oversight is a word with two meanings–to oversee and to oversleep. So is mislead. It means to lie, and it means a lack of leadership. Congress has a responsibility to oversee the CIA that remains largely unfulfilled. It has to ask the right questions, demand full answers and report the facts annually to the American people.

Will the CIA tell Congress the truth? Would Congress listen if it did? If trust remains broken, intelligence will fail again. And when intelligence fails, soldiers and civilians die.

Friday, June 05, 2009

Why on September 11th.....

How the Secret Government of the formerly United States of America will lead the world into a Luciferian Age of universal tyranny and slavery.

Masonic chain of union

The United States is run by an elite Satanic cult, that has infiltrated the banking racket, industry, politics, the judiciary, the presidency, the congress, academia, the media, the press, and both branches of the reigning duopoly. Control is maintained by force, brainwashing, threats, blackmail, political prostitution, corruption, and other forms of exploitation.The cult, its adepts its initiates, its agents, and those who have come under its thrall have no loyalty to the state.

This shadow government is not secretive these days, partly because of the internet, which they plan to control more, and partly because they have sufficiently corrupted the populace (via propaganda, manipulation and drugging; and by promoting apathy and relativism and fatalism) that they feel more confident in openly discussing their objectives.

The cult despises the Lord God, the creator of this world.

The cult worships, in a sense, Lucifer/Satan, whom they regard as Man’s saviour from a tyrannical and cruel God.

More precisely they worship symbols and numbers, believing that the knowledge of such “mysteries” proves their superiority to God (who, of course, also created all symbols, and everything knowable and unknowable in the eternity before the creation of humankind).

They may be called gnostics, in the sense that they worship what they understand as “knowledge”, foolishly believing it to be something separate from creation. However, when one speaks of gnostic “knowing”, one should keep in mind that this “knowing” is not related to Christian Truth or any sense of an objective reality, and is in fact the expression of a very and complex and incestuous pagan cosmology.

Hopefully it will be understood that beyond all of the cult’s delusions, obfuscations, lies and distortions, ultimately they worship “Man”, which is the lowest form of idolatry.

Their goal, in communion with fellow Satanists around the world, is to

  • Overthrow Christ as God
  • Subvert all moral law
  • Destroy the family
  • Especially destroy Christian civilization
  • Pervert humanity
  • Abolish nations
  • Initiate World Government under their own oligarchic tyranny
  • Invent and impose a syncretic cosmotheistic (ultimately pagan and pantheistic in this realm, disguised as Unitarianism, with actual monotheistic reverence for Satan as the ruler of this world), state-sanctioned and state-supporting religion upon the world; with themselves monopolizing the High Priesthood.
  • Employ mass-murder and ruthless eugenics measures to create a slave race – the “barbarians” and “savages” and “profane”, as they call them — dedicated to the service of the elite Masters.

Their hoped-for World Religion is essentially a gnostic, Freemasonic regurgitation of Babylonian and Egyptian mystery cults, served up with liberal New Age doses of Theosophy, Mandeaenism, Alevism, Sufiism, Bahai’ism, Wicca, Communism, Humanism, Mormonism, “Christian Science”, Queerism, Yoga, Ecumenism, Sabbateanism, Scientism, Ghandiism, Lamaism, Environmentalism, Feminism, Frankism, Druidism, Cabbalism, Psychotherapy, Jubuism, Viennese Voodoo, and whatever flotsam and jetsam of similar syncretic religious cults and pseudo-sciences and anti-God ideologies and occult rites that may be drawn into service.

This New World Order is therefore in fact the most ancient world order of Lucifer. This scheme of anti-Christ involves power, money, the material world, the obliteration of free will, fatalism, an assault on the soul.

Immediate plans include the destruction of Russia and Iran and Pakistan, and the subjugation of China. They hope to initiating war on them, get others to do the fighting, or get them to go to war against each other. This was their technique in destroying the Russian, Austrian, German, and Ottoman Empires. In the course of this objective, the world was immersed in a century of blood.

NATO will then form the basis of what they hope will become the World Police.

In the formerly United States of America (the basis of material — especially military — power; the other key locus of power is the City of London, which remains the banking capital of the world in spite of the increasing emiseration of the British “citizenry” who are subjected to increasing austerity measures as their overlords expand totalitarian domination), the immediate objective is to weaken and eventually abrogate the prerogatives of the separate states, to draw all power to Washington, gathered in the office of one branch of government — the Imperial Presidency. This will be greatly achieved by the looting of the treasury (which proceeds apace), the continuing drugging of the populace, the continuing abandonment of U.S. border sovereignty, the continuing infiltration of their foreign agents (Mexican gangs, Mafiosi of various stripes, Columbian narco-terrorists, Saudi Wahabbi missionaries, Arab assassins, Afghan narco-warlords, King (actually zlachta) Zbigniew Brzezinski, Queen Heinz Kissinger, High Prince Rahm Emanuel, etc), and the establishment of a national state of emergency after further terror attacks, which they will have coordinated.

They will suspend the constitution, attempt to disarm the populace, declare dissenters to be “terrorists”, perpetrate further Shock and Awe terror attacks (most likely also involving the elimination of President Obama) that they will blame on patriots and dissenters, whom they will then proceed to eliminate. “Human rights” “laws” and media control through politically correct propaganda will also be employed to further enslave the American people.

Previous attempts, foreshadowings, trial runs, and preparations for this scheme have included: The Kennedy Sacrifice (Mafia, CIA, FBI, Military Intelligence, Secret Service), the Gulf of Tonkin (Military Intelligence), USS Liberty (Military Intelligence), Jonestown (CIA), Ruby Ridge (ATF, FBI), Waco (ATF, FBI), Oklahoma (Military Intelligence, ATF, FBI), WTC 93 (CIA, FBI, Military Intelligence), and 911 (Military Intelligence, CIA, FBI, the White House, Congress, The Democratic Party, The Republican Party).

For one brief moment, a group of Patriots attempted to prevent this conspiracy from achieving its objectives. The Party they formed introduced a number of democratic innovations to the American political process, and ran on the main platform of opposing the treasonous secret societies that have run the Federal government since it’s inception. They were soon infiltrated by conspirators and only ended up having some state successes. Nevertheless, their manifesto is very revealing.

The Anti-Masonic Party

The Lion’s Grip of the Order

In 1828, hoping to avert the total subversion of the democratic process; the Anti-Masonic Party was formed to counterbalance the threat of secret societies to both Church and State; this through the most peaceful and practical means at our disposal, the ballot. But what happened to Capt. Morgan more than 150 years ago was not only revisited in 1963, but grievously exceeded in cruelty and depravity; as the execution was carried out not in secret, as was the case with Morgan’s murder; but before the world in Dallas, before women and children.

The Proceedings of the United States Anti-Masonic Convention; Address to the People of the United States

Held in Philadelphia, September 11, 1830.

“In this alarming emergency, the agents of government seemed paralyzed. Our public institutions and provisions for the preservation of tranquility, and the repression of crime, seemed nugatory. And without the use of other means than the law, and its official ministers, the most daring and brutal inroads, upon our dearest rights, would have passed off, without effort to understand their origin, punish their instruments, or provide against their recurrence. No arts were left untried by freemasons to baffle the pursuit of truth, and defeat the administration of justice.

“The lion’s grip of the order was upon our courts, and loyalty to that, displaced fealty to the state. If freemasonry ought to be abolished, it should certainly be so abolished as to prevent its restoration. No means of doing this can be conceived so competent as those furnished by the ballot boxes.

“These means are commended to our adoption, by the most urgent considerations, by their mildness, their safety, their sufficiency, and the tested insufficiency of all others. They are the means provided, by the most venerated of our political fathers. Who shall disparage them? Whoever is opposed to freemasonry and really desires its extinction, must use them, or confess himself a slave or tyrant. To extinguish it, by violence, would be tyranny, if it were possible. To extinguish it, by the expression of honest convictions against it, would not be tyranny, but it cannot be accomplished, unless a majority unite in such expression; and whether they do or not, cannot be ascertained, without a general vote. To desire its [freemasonry's] extinction, and do nothing to effect it, must proceed from indolence, fear, or the imagined force of assumed obligations in its favour, either of which amounts to a degrading slavery. To such slavery who is willing to submit? In truth none, who are not opposed to using every other means against it, are opposed to using our elective rights against it; and those who are opposed to using our elective rights against it, uniformly use their elective rights in its favour. The higher freemasons are expressly sworn to do it. Thus they adopt a conduct, which they stigmatize in us, as oppressive and persecuting, and which is so, when adopted secretly, by virtue of unlawful obligations, and in favour of a class of citizens, who associate for securing to themselves unequal privileges.

“Anti-masons would defend their rights, the laws of their country, and the most sacred treasures of liberty, from a fearful assault. Seeking to preserve and perpetuate all the blessings intended to be secured, by our government, they would proceed, in the spirit of strict conformity with its provisions. And they invite all, who appreciate these blessings, to join them. They have no secret purposes to accomplish– no selfish objects to promote– no time, nor means to cast away, in idle ostentation, or for useless notoriety. They know the country is in danger; and they come forth, from their retirements, to shield it. On their farms, in their shops, at their counters, in their offices, and at their desks, they have heard the wail of the bereaved widow and orphans, and, feeling the sympathies of humanity, they have inquired how they became so…

“Murder and treason they cannot help regarding with abhorrence, however disguised; and will resist, whoever may perpetrate or abet them. Their chosen weapon of resistance is the right of suffrage– a weapon of equal power in every freeman’s hand, and which is so tempered, as they trust, in the armory of patriotism, that neither the keen nor solid of freemasonry may resist its edge.

“Fellow citizens, are we called to be anti-masons by the best feelings of our nature? Are our objects the highest that can effect the civil character? Are our means the most approved and indispensable? Unite with us– not for our sakes, but your own– Aid us in working out the redemption of our country from freemasonry. We are misrepresented and calumniated, as the chief public means of defeating the cause we have espoused. Examine by whom, and inquire into their motives. Be not deceived. If individuals among us are in fault, through ignorance, or passion, or interest, or profligacy, refuse them your confidence. But do not, therefore, betray your rights, and those of your country; nor let those beguile you into their support, who prefer secrecy to publicity, and freemasonry to republicanism. We are for practical, peaceable, and most necessary reform– not for the destruction, but the establishment of right. Freedom, in every beneficial sense, is the soul of anti-masonry.

“The first and most prominent injunction of freemasonry is secrecy. Any violation of this it punishes with infamy and death. Secrecy is the shutting up of the mind from communion with other minds. And so far as it prevails, in relation to any social good, it is selfish, sour, ignorant, and restless….

“But there are other members of very different character, who adhere to it, with a tenacity exactly proportioned to their estimate of its adaptation to their evil designs. [George] Washington represented it as capable of being employed for the basest purposes, and never visited a lodge, but once or twice, in the last thirty years of his life.

“To this government freemasonry is wholly opposed. It requires unresisting submission to its own authority in contempt of public opinion– the claims of conscience– and the rights of private judgment. It would dam up the majestic current of improving thoughts, among all its subjects throughout the earth, by restricting beneficial communication. In attempting to do this, it has stained our country with a brother’s blood, tempted many of our influential citizens into the most degrading forms of falsehood, and burst away, with its powers undiminished, its vengeance provoked, and its pollution manifest, from the strong arm of distributive justice…

“It is one of the striking evidences of the wisdom of the framers of our constitution, and a bright presage of its perpetuity, that it is fit for all emergencies. It [the Constitution] contains provisions, which are abundantly adequate to the subversion of freemasonry. Perfectly convinced, that such a subversion must be effected or our liberties wrested from us, let us inquire, what are these provisions?

“They consist in the just exercise of the rights reserved by the people to themselves, as the great constituent, supervising proprietors of the republic…

“The abuses of which we complain involve the highest crimes, of which man can be guilty, because they indicate the deepest malice, and the most fatal aim. They bespeak the most imminent danger, because they have proceeded from a conspiracy more numerous and better organized for mischief, than any other detailed in the records of man, and yet, though exposed, maintaining itself, in all its monstrous power. That murder has been committed, is now acknowledged by all. That it has been so committed, and the malefactors have acted under such authority, and have been so aided and comforted, as to carry the guilt of treason, cannot be doubted. Protection from these crimes, is the first duty of government, and the object for which it is invested with its highest powers. But protection cannot be secured, by the ordinary means. Shall it therefore be abandoned? Shall we forego, in behalf of’ freemasonry, or through fear of it, the primary purpose of civil organization? If we are true to ourselves it is certain we need not forego it; we can practically enforce it: for the rights of election remain. In these may be found full means– not of punishing the criminals– but of precluding any repetition of their crimes– of giving us that security against them, which is better than punishment; which is, indeed, the only proper object of all human punishment. The use of these means we advocate. Our adversaries reprobate it, and represent it as oppressive and persecuting.

“The exercise of the elective franchise is as much a function of our government as any one performed, by legislatures, executive magistrates, or judges. And the honest, intelligent, and fearless use of it, by all to whom it pertains, is as much a duty, in every case, as a similar use of other functions is, in any case, by those to whom they pertain. Such a use of the elective function is the duty most imperious, because it is the great corrective, in the last resort, of all other functions.

“To say that the powers of government should not be applied to the masonic outrages at all, would be so preposterous, as justly to excite suspicion of being implicated in them. Besides, it is now too late for any persons to say this with consistency; for since the inadequacy of all judicial application to them has been apparent, even adhering freemasons say it was not improper to appeal to the courts: “punish the guilty.” But if it was proper to appeal to the courts, in the first place, and that appeal has been rendered nugatory by the criminal interference of freemasonry, the reason for appealing to the powers of government against the outrages is immeasurably strengthened, not diminished. There is, therefore, no impropriety in resorting to the elective franchise to correct the evils of freemasonry. It invades no man’s rights. It gives no man reason to complain. It is no more disreputable than it is to resort to a legislature, or a court of law, for the correction of an evil, which they were instituted to redress. Would it be tolerated, for a moment, to stigmatize as oppression and persecution a resort to our legislators for the passage of a law to promote the public security; or to our judicial tribunals, for the punishment of crime? Neither can it be, thus to stigmatize a resort to the elective franchise, for the abolishing of freemasonry, which is fatal to all security, and the very charnal house of crime…”

An Account of the Savage Treatment of Captain William Morgan, in Fort Niagara

Who was subsequently murdered by the masons, and sunk in Lake Ontario, for publishing the SECRETS OF MASONRY.

by Edward Giddins, formerly keeper of the fort and a Royal Arch Mason.

Boston, 1829

INTRODUCTION

CAPTAIN WILLIAM MORGAN, of New York, an intelligent man, and an inflexible republican, convinced of the dangers of Secret Societies, in a free Government, resolved to use his best endeavors for their suppression. Being a Royal Arch Mason, he had witnessed the corruption of the Institution. He saw it was an engine of personal advantage and political aggrandizement; that it gave to its members unfair advantages and extra privileges over the unsuspecting community; that its insidious influence extended to every transaction in society, raising as it were the Masonic combination unto a PRIVILEGED ORDER, who, under the Royal Names of GRAND KINGS, Grand Sovereigns, and Grand High Priests, in darkness and secrecy, ruled and plundered the people.

CAPTAIN MORGAN was a soldier and a brave man. He saw this detestable conspiracy and he dared to risk his life by bursting its shackles and warning an injured people! He was seized by a gang of Masonic desperadoes, who came 60 miles after him, in the morning about sunrise, Sept. 11, 1826, under a pretended process of law, (in the manner Mr. Jacob Allen was taken by Masons at Reading) and carried 60 miles, and placed for safe keeping in a county jail, in the care of a masonic jailer. Thence he was taken in stillness of the night, crying murder! murder! and transported one hundred miles further, and placed in a U.S. fortress, also in the keeping of a Mason. Here Mr. Giddin’s account commences. Thus it appears that our county jails and our national fortresses are all at the service of the Masons, to carry their bloody schemes of kidnapping and murder into execution.

Will a free and patriotic people submit to these things in silence? Fellow citizens! Read this pamphlet, and answer the question, ought a secret society to exist amongst us whose members can commit murder and yet escape punishment? MASONS HAVE done this, and their brethren, as may be seen by the oaths on our last page, are sworn to protect them.

Fellow citizens, are men bound by such Obligations and possessing such principals, FIT to be rulers of a FREE PEOPLE?

Read this and lend it to your neighbor.

A Statement of the facts

Relative to the confinement of WILLIAM MORGAN in Fort Niagara, and such parts of that conspiracy as fell within the knowledge of the writer

In presenting the following statement of facts, I beg leave to observe that I have no other excuse to make for the part I took in this foul transaction, than that I was a Royal Arch Mason, and did at that time consider my masonic obligations binding upon my conscience; and now, since these obligations are before the public, I am willing to abide by their decision, how much I was actuated by principles and how much by fear; one thing, however, is certain, that although nothing could have been more repugnant to my natural feelings, yet a sense of duty, and the horrid consequences of refusal, outweighed every other consideration.

In justice to those who took part in this transaction, I would observe, that as far as I am acquainted with them, I feel warranted in saying, that they were urged to those excesses by a strong sense of duty, they blindly thought themselves bound by the most horrid penalties, to perform; and it is to be hoped that the world will be charitable to them by commiserating their misfortunes and extenuating their faults, should they renounce this iniquitous combination, and honestly and fearlessly disclose the parts they acted in this conspiracy, and the causes which urged them to it; but, should they still persist in their obstinate silence, they must not expect that lenity which they otherwise might be entitled to from an indulgent public.

It is to be hoped that an institution whose very principles lead directly to such horrid outrages, and which is entirely made up of dissimulation and fraud, will be completely suppressed in this country and throughout the world, and that a barrier be instituted to prevent it from ever again polluting the earth with its insidious influence. But the public must not expect to accomplish this desirable object without unwanted pains and incessant vigilance; their task is but commencing, and, should they lack in circumspection or perseverance, the monster will yet flourish with more power and commit greater enormities than ever.

Masonic Cull

“The very word “secrecy” is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings.”

John Quincy Adams

From Letters on the Masonic Intitution, 1847:

The Institution of Masonry was introduced into the British Colonies of North America more than a hundred years ago. It went on slowly at first, but from the time of the Revolution it spread more rapidly, until in the first quarter of the present century it had succeeded in winding itself through all the departments of the body politic in the United States, and in claiming the sanction of many of the country’s most distinguished men. Up to the year 1826 nothing occurred to mar its progress or to interpose the smallest obstacle to its triumphant success. So great had then become the confidence of the members in its power, as to prompt the loud tone of gratulation in which some of its orators then indulged at their pubic festivals, and among these none spoke more boldly than Mr. Brainard, in the passage which will be found * quoted in the present volume. He announced that Masonry was exercising its influence in the sacred desk, in the legislative hall and on the bench of justice, but so little had the public attention been directed to the truth he uttered, that the declaration passed off, and was set down by the uninitiated rather as a flower of rhetoric with which young speakers will sometimes magnify their topic, than as entitled to any particularly serious notice. Neither would these memorable words have been rescued from oblivion, if it had not happened that the very next year after they were uttered was destined to furnish a most extraordinary illustration of their significance.

In a small town situated in the western part of the State of New York, an event occurred in the autumn of the year 1826, which roused the suspicions first of the people living in the immediate neighborhood, and afterwards of a very wide circle of persons throughout the United States. A citizen of Batavia suddenly disappeared from his family, without giving the slightest warning. Rumors were immediately circulated that he had run away; but there were circumstances attending the act which favored the idea that personal violence had been resorted to, although the precise authors of it could not be distinctly traced. The name of the citizen who thus vanished as if the earth had opened and swallowed him from sight, was William Morgan. He had been a man of little consideration in the place, in which he had been but a short time resident. Without wealth, for he was compelled to labor for the support of a young wife and two infant children, and without influence of any kind, it seemed as if there could be nothing in the history or the pursuits of the individual to make him a shining mark of persecution, on any account. So unreasonable, if not absurd, did the notion of the forcible abduction of such a man appear, that it was at first met with a cold smile of utter incredulity. Among the floating population of a newly settled country, the single fact of the departure of persons having few ties to bind them to any particular spot, would scarcely cause remark or lead to inquiry. Numbers, when first called to express an opinion in the ease of Morgan, at once jumped to the conclusion that he voluntarily fled to parts unknown. So natural was the inference that even to this day, many who have never taken any trouble to look into the evidence, are impressed with a vague notion that it is the proper solution of the difficulty. In ordinary circumstances the thing might have passed off as a nine days’ wonder, and in a month’s time the name of Morgan might have been forgotten in Batavia, had it not been for a single clue which was left behind him, and which, at first followed up from curiosity, soon excited wonder, and from this led to astonishment at the nature of the discoveries that ensued.

The single clue which ultimately unwound the tangled skein of evidence was this. The sole act of Morgan, whilst dwelling in Batavia, which formed any exception to the ordinary habits of men in his walk of life, was an undertaking into which he entered, in partnership with another person, to print and publish a book. This book promised to contain a true account of certain ceremonies and secret obligations taken by those who joined the society of Freemasons. The simple announcement of the intention to print this work was known to have been received by many of the persons in the vicinity, acknowledged brethren of the Order, with signs of the most lively indignation. And as the thing went on to execution, so many efforts were made to interrupt and to prevent it, even at the hazard of much violence, that soon after the disappearance of the prime mover of the plan, doubts began to spread in the community, whether there was not some connection, in the way of cause and effect, between the proposed publication and that event. Circumstances rapidly confirmed suspicion into belief, and belief into certainty. At first the attention was concentrated upon the individuals of the fraternity discovered to have been concerned in the taking off. It afterwards spread itself so far as to embrace the action of the Lodges of the region in which the deed was done. But such was the amount of resistance experienced to efforts made to ferret out the perpetrators and bring them to justice, that ultimately the whole organization of the Order became involved in responsibility for the misdeeds of its members. The opposition made to investigation only stimulated the passion to investigate. Unexampled efforts were made to enlist the whole power of the social system in the pursuit of the kidnappers, which were as steadily baffled by the superior activity of the Masonic power. In time, it became plain, that the only effectual course would be, to go if possible to the root of the evil, and to attack Masonry in its very citadel of secret obligations.

The labor expended in the endeavor to suppress the publication of Morgan’s book, proved to have been lost. It came out just at the moment when the disappearance of its author was most calculated to rouse the public curiosity to its contents. On examination, it was found to contain what purported to be the forms of Oaths taken by those who were admitted to the first three degrees of Masonry,-the Entered Apprentice’s, the Fellow Craft’s and the Master Mason’s. If they really were what they pretended to be, then indeed was supplied a full explanation of the motives that might have led to Morgan’s disappearance. But here was the first difficulty. Doubts were sedulously spread of their genuineness. Morgan’s want of social character was used with effect to bring the whole volume into discredit. Neither is it perfectly certain that its revelations would have been ultimately established as true, had not a considerable number of the fraternity, stimulated by the consciousness of the error which they had committed, voluntarily assembled at Leroy, a town in the neighborhood of Batavia, and then and there, besides attesting the veracity of Morgan’s book, renounced all further connection with the society. One or two of these persons subsequently made far more extended publications, in which they opened all the mysteries of the Royal Arch, and of the Knight Templar’s libation, besides exposing in a clear light the whole complicated organization of the Institution. Upon these disclosures the popular excitement spread over a large part of the northern section of the Union. It crept into the political divisions of the time. A party sprung up almost with the celerity of magic, the end of whose exertions was to be the overthrow of Masonry. It soon carried before it all the power of Western New York. It spread into the neighboring States. It made its appearance in legislative assemblies, and there demanded full and earnest investigations, not merely of the circumstances attending the event which originated the excitement, but also of the nature of the obligations which Masons had been in the habit of assuming. Great as was the effort to resist this movement, and manifold the devices to escape the searching operation proposed, it was found impossible directly to stem the tide of popular opinion. Masons, who stubbornly adhered to the Order, were yet compelled under oath to give their reluctant testimony to the truth of the disclosures that had been made. The oaths of Masonry and the strange rites practiced simultaneously with the assumption of them, were then found to be in substance what they had been affirmed to be. The veil that hid the mystery was rent in twain, and there stood the idol before the gaze of the multitude, in all the nakedness of its natural deformity.

Strange though it may seem, it is nevertheless equally certain, that the most revolting features of the obligation, the pledges subversive of all moral distinctions, and the penalties for violating those pledges, were not those things which roused the most general popular disapprobation. Here, as often before, the shield of private character, earned by a life and conversation without reproach, was interposed with effect to screen from censure men who protested that when they swore to keep secret the crimes which their brethren might have committed, provided they were revealed to them under the Masonic sign, they did nothing which they deemed inconsistent with their duties as Christians and as members of society. It is the tendency of mankind to mix with all abstract reasoning, however pure and perfect, a great deal of the alloy of human authority, to harden its nature. Multitudes preferred to believe the Masonic oaths and penalties to be ceremonies, childish, ridiculous and unmeaning, rather than to suppose them intrinsically and incurably vicious. They refused to credit the fact that men whom they respected as citizens could have made themselves parties to any promise whatsoever to do acts illegal, unjust and wicked. Rather than go so far, they preferred to throw themselves into a state of resolute unbelief of all that could be said against them. Hence the extraordinary resistance to all projects of examination, that great wall of brass which the conservative temper of society erects around acknowledged and time-hallowed abuses. Hence the determination to credit the assurances of interested witnesses, who seemed to have a character for veracity to support, rather than by pressing investigation, to undermine the established edifice constructed by the world’s opinion.

Neither is there at bottom any want of good sense in this sluggish mode of viewing all movements of reform. Agitation always portends more or less of risk to society, and tends to bring mere authority into contempt. It is therefore not without reason that those who value the security which they enjoy under existing institutions, hesitate at adopting any rule of conduct which may materially diminish it. Such hesitation is visible under all forms of government, but it is no where more marked than in the United States, where the popular nature of the institutions makes the tendency to change at all times imminent. The misfortune attending this natural and pardonable conservative instinct is, that it clings with indiscriminate tenacity to all that has been long established the evil as well as the good, the abuses that have crept in equally with the useful and the true. It was just so in the case of Masonry. A large number of the most active and respected members of society had allowed themselves to become involved in its obligations, and rather than voluntarily to confess the error they had committed, and to sanction the overthrow of the Institution by a decided act of surrender, they preferred to support it upon the strength of their present character, and upon the combination of themselves and the friends whom they could influence to resist the assaults of a reforming and purifying power. Great as was the strength of this resistance, it could only partially succeed in accomplishing the object at which it aimed. The opposition made to the admission of a palpable moral truth, had its usual and natural effect to stimulate the efforts of those who were pressing it upon the public attention. Admitting in the fullest extent every thing that could be said in behalf of many of the individuals, who as Masons became subjected to the vehemence of the denunciations directed against the fraternity, it was yet a fact not a little startling, that even they should deem themselves so far bound by unlawful obligations as at no time to be ready to signify the smallest disapprobation of their character, not even after the fact was proved how much of evil they had caused. After the disclosures of the Morgan history, it was no longer possible to pretend that the pledges were not actually construed in the sense which the language plainly conveyed. That after admitting the possibility of such a construction, the association which for one moment longer should give it countenance, made itself responsible for all the crime which might become the fruit of it, cannot be denied. Yet this reasoning did not appear to have the weight to which it was fairly entitled, in deterring the respectable members of the society from giving it their aid and countenance. DeWitt Clinton still remained Grand Master of the Order after he had reason to know the extent to which it had made itself accessory to the Morgan murder. Edward Livingston was not ashamed publicly to declare his acceptance of the same office, although the chain of evidence which traced that crime to the Masonic oath had then been made completely visible to all. When the authority of such names as these was invoked with success, to shelter the association from the effect of its own system, it seemed to become an imperative duty on the part of those whose attention had been aroused to the subject, to look beyond the barrier of authority so sedulously erected in order to keep them out, to probe by a searching analytic process the moral elements upon which the Institution claimed to rest, and to concentrate the rays of truth and right reason upon those corrupt principles, which if not effectively counteracted, seemed to threaten the very foundations of justice in the social and moral system of America.....

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Hezbollah spices up Israel-Iran mix



Hezbollah spices up Israel-Iran mix
By Kaveh L Afrasiabi

Where Iran has Hezbollah, Israel has Jundallah, given Israel's apparent efforts to destabilize Iran by playing an "ethnic card" against it. This, by some reports, it is doing by nurturing the Sunni Islamist group Jundallah to parallel Tehran's support for Lebanon's formidable Shi'ite group, Hezbollah, that is favored to win parliamentary elections on June 7.

Should the Hezbollah-led coalition win as anticipated, the result will be even closer military-to-military relations between Iran and Lebanon, reflected in Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrollah's recent statement that he would look to Tehran to modernize Lebanon's army.

Rattled by the prospect of an even-stronger Iranian influence in Lebanon in the near future, the Israeli government, which is on the defensive internationally over its stance on the Palestinian issue, has gone on the offensive. It is upping the ante against Iran by focusing on covert activities inside Iran, according to a recent report in the Washington Post, to "disrupt Iran's nuclear program" - so far without much success.

Israeli Brigadier-General Yossi Baidatz, head of the research division of Israel's Military Intelligence, said on Monday that Iran could have enough fissile material to build a nuclear bomb by the end of 2009.

"By the end of the year, Iran will have enough fissile material for a first nuclear bomb," Baidatz told the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset (parliament). Iran vigorously insists its uranium-enrichment program is for peaceful purposes.

If Tehran won't halt its nuclear program, Israel may have better results in exploiting the tensions in the ethnically and religiously mixed border provinces of Iran, the scene to terrorist attacks in recent weeks.

The finger of suspicion points to the activities of Israel and its secret service, Mossad, instigating instability among Iran's ethnic populations, particularly the vulnerable and economically deprived Balochis in the province of Sistan and Balochistan bordering Pakistan, where many of the country's minority Sunnis live.

Here, there has been a spate of Sunni-Shi'ite violence. In the most recent incident, a Shi'ite mosque was bombed on May 28 in the city of Zahedan, with 25 people killed and 125 injured.

This has had an unnerving effect on the government as Iran edges closer to presidential elections on June 12. Jundallah (Soldiers of Allah) claimed responsibility for the mosque attack. Jundallah has launched other attacks in the area, including a 2007 bombing in which more than 10 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps were killed.

"The Israelis have said that they are willing to enter a pact with the devil himself against Iran and Mossad's signature is all over Jundallah," a Tehran political analyst told the author on condition of anonymity. He said that in his opinion, Israel could be receiving assistance from some regional actors.

Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has said, "There is no doubt that the political architects of some interventionist forces and their spy apparatuses were involved in this bloody incident [in Zahedan]."

In a press conference, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki explicitly linked the Zahedan terrorism to "foreign forces in Afghanistan", though without elaboration.

Some Tehran analysts, however, are hedging their bets on a growing web of intrigue, ranging from dissident elements among the 1.5 to 2 million Iranian Balochis to Jundallah operating from across the border in Pakistan, to al-Qaeda, the Taliban, Israel, the United States and US coalition partners in Afghanistan.

Officially, the US government has condemned the Zahedan bombing and is slowly considering the idea of putting Jundallah on the list of terrorist organizations, much as it did with the Party for the Free Life of Kurdistan in February.

However, despite evidence of al-Qaeda's involvement with Jundallah and its Sunni crusade against the Shi'ite Iranian regime, the US has dragged its feet, something Iranian analysts attribute to the influence of pro-Israel lobbyists, not to mention pro-Jundallah spin by aspects of the US media.

For instance, Dan Rather in his CBS cable news program Dan Rather Reports, painted Jundallah as a home-grown organization that receives backing from expatriate Balochis living in Europe, without mentioning any Mossad or US role in propping up the group - even though such support has been exposed by veteran US investigative reporter and Pulitzer prize-winner Seymour Hersh.

In contrast, Iranian Interior Minister Sadegh Mahsouli has directly pointed at US and Israeli operatives as the culprits of the attack on the mosque in Zahedan.

Ahmad Reza Radan, the head of security forces in Zahedan, has announced the arrest of scores of individuals, both Shi'ite and Sunni, following disturbances that have "aimed to foment inter-ethnic violence". Already, three individuals accused of playing a role in these incidents have been executed in Zahedan.

This swift justice reflects a very edgy government that wants to ensure internal peace and stability throughout Iran ahead of the presidential elections in less than two weeks.

In seeking calm between Sunni and Shi'ite groups in Zahedan, the Supreme Leader's special representative, Ayatollah Abasali Soleyman, has met with the imam of a Sunni mosque in Zahedan, Mousavi Abdulhamid Ismail Zehy, and they issued a joint statement on the need to perpetuate the "peaceful coexistence" of Shi'ites and Sunnis.

Inevitably, this issue has seeped into the presidential campaigns and some newspapers associated with the reformist camp and its leading contender, Mir Hossein Mousavi, blame the government of President Mahmud Ahmadinejad for neglecting the "poor and deprived provinces". The Ahmadinejad camp vigorously denies this, pointing at its plans for a free-trade zone in the region.

Kaveh L Afrasiabi, PhD, is the author of After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy (Westview Press) . For his Wikipedia entry, click here. His latest book, Reading In Iran Foreign Policy After September 11 (BookSurge Publishing , October 23, 2008) is now available.

Monday, June 01, 2009

Authorities downplaying the number of those infected with avian flu H1N1



Authorities downplaying the number of those infected with avian flu H1N1

WMR has learned from an informed source in the virus research community that little-known U.S. Navy medical groups, known as Naval Medical Research Unit Number 2, headquartered in Jakarta, Indonesia, and Naval Medical Research Group Number 3, headquartered in Cairo, are carrying out research on the artificially-created A/H1N1 human-swine-avian hybrid virus. WMR has also learned that the number of avian flu cases in Indonesia and Egypt are being downplayed by health officials and the international corporate media.

WMR has also learned that the NAMRUs in Jakarta and Cairo have only used local employees to collect avian flu samples from the general population and they are not permitted to conduct research within the laboratories. We have also learned that cases of infections in both Egypt and Indonesia are on the rise but the news is being censored by the Egyptian and Indonesian governments.

During the avian flu outbreak in Indonesia in 2006, the activities of NAMRU 2 were questioned by Indonesian lawmakers. NAMRU personnel have the diplomatic authority to travel anywhere in Indonesia to conduct medical investigations and collect samples. In 2008, Indonesian Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari paid a surprise facility to the unit in Jakarta. NAMRU 2's operations were suspended temporarily but this past February the Indonesian House of Representatives authorized the renewed operations of NAMRU 2. However, there are suspicions that NAMRU is involved in the obscure area of medical intelligence gathering or "MEDINT" and that much of this intelligence ends up in U.S. biological warfare laboratories in the United States, including Fort Detrick, Maryland.

NAMRU 2 was also accused by Indonesian authorities of taking avian flu and other disease samples from Indonesia and using them to produce vaccines without any compensation or sharing agreement with Indonesia.

NAMRU 2 began in Guam during World War II as a joint operation between the Navy and the Rockefeller Institute. NAMRU 2 then moved to Taipei, Manila, and eventually, Jakarta. NAMRU 2 has detachment units in Laos, Singapore, Thailand, and Cambodia.

WMR has learned the same situation now exists with NAMRU 3 in Egypt. NAMRU 3 is collecting all the avian flu samples in Egypt. NAMRU 3 has a sophisticated laboratory but only Americans work on the research. Egyptians are only authorized to collect samples that are then delivered to a window at NAMRU 3. The same situation is said to exist at NAMRU 2 in Jakarta.

NAMRU 3 has existed in Cairo since World War II. Even during the break in U.S.-Egyptian diplomatic relations after the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, NAMRU 3 remained operational.

On May 13, 2009, WMR reported, "scientists are predicting that the molecular clock of the A/H1N1 virus, coupled with modern transportation, means that almost all the countries of the world will experience an A/H1N1 outbreak within the next few months." According to recent reports, the prediction of scientists about the spread of the A/H1N1 appears to be correct. The virus has now spread to Greece, Slovakia, Estonia, Lebanon, Dominican Republic, Russia, Venezuela, the remote Canadian Arctic territory of Nunavut, Alaska, Romania, Bolivia, Cyprus, Hungary, Uruguay, Taiwan, Paraguay, Honduras, Iceland, Wales, and Ireland.

Abu Zubaydah, alleged "Abu Qaeda" mastermind, is a CIA veteran


Abu Zubaydah, alleged "Abu Qaeda" mastermind, is a CIA veteran

WMR has learned from an informed source knowledgeable about the detention and torture of U.S. detainees in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that imprisoned "Al Qaeda" leader Abu Zubaydah, born in Saudi Arabia and raised until he was a teen on the West Bank where he was also active in demonstrations against the illegal Israeli occupation, was a paid agent of the CIA while in Afghanistan from 1991 to 1992 fighting with the mujaheddin against the Afghan communist government and its Soviet military allies. Zubaydah, who speaks Arabic and English, was injured by a mortar in 1992 and left him without an eye and memory loss. Zubaydah was so badly injured, he forgot how to use a rifle and was not allowed back on the front lines to fight the Afghan Communist forces under President Najibullah.

In March 2002, Zubaydah was captured in Faisalabad, Pakistan by a CIA team after the United States paid a $10 million bribe to the Pakistani government to produce "Al Qaeda" leaders. Zubaydah, who was partially handicapped from his original injuries while on the payroll of the CIA, was shot three times during his capture. Zubaydah's presence in Faisalabad was no secret as he was well-known in the community.

From the outset, the U.S. case against Zubaydah was full of holes. Federal prosecutors declined to link Zubaydah to the "Millennium Plot" a plan to blow up Los Angeles International Airport on January 1, 2000. Zubaydah's status as an "Al Qaeda" leader was suspect from the beginning. Zubaydah, one of the first CIA "ghost prisoners," was detained in CIA-run prisons in Pakistan, Thailand, Afghanistan, Poland, Diego Garcia, Jordan, Syria, Egypt, and Morocco before being placed in the Guantanamo Bay prison.

According to a heavily-redacted court motion submitted by Zubaydah's counsel to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, CIA contractors involved in the transport and torture of Zubaydah included: Air Security International/Air Routing International of Houston; Mitchell, Jessen & Associates of Spokane, Washington; Jeppesen Dataplan of San Jose, California; Aero Contractors/Aviation Specialties of Smithfield, North Carolina; Tepper Aviation of Crestview, Florida; Richmor Aviation of Hudson, New York; Windrose Aviation of Berlin, Germany. The following contractors were also involved in Zubaydah's transport and/or torture: James E. Mitchell of Florida, Bruce Jessen of Washington state, Eric Ernest Jividen of Virginia, Lyle E. Lumsden of Virginia, Adam Buzzard of Virginia and Florida, Leroy Doland Buell of Washington, DC and Florida, and Thomas Medina. Mitchell and Jessen were consulting psychologists to the CIA.

An FBI team, that included anti-torture agent Ali Soufan, withdrew from the interrogation of Zubaydah after the two CIA psychologists, Mitchell and Jessen, began to apply torture tactics on Zubaydah, including water boarding. In fact, according to court documents obtained by WMR, the CIA flew a doctor from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore to treat Zubaydah's wounds to make him healthy enough to begin the torture sessions.

Zubaydah's torture by the CIA, given the detainee's past association with the agency, indicates that the interrogators were interested in much more than intelligence on "Al Qaeda." When Zubaydah was captured by the CIA, he was carrying two ATM bank cards, each issued by a Saudi and Kuwaiti bank. The cards were sent to Washington but fell into a "black hole." The Bush administration failed to investigate where the money in the accounts originated. It was reported that the Saudi bank was close to the House of Saud.

From the beginning of his detention in 2002, it is highly unlikely, given the American torture, that Zubaydah ever provided any "actionable intelligence." According to WMR's source, Zubaydah was repeatedly subjected to "walling," being slammed up against a wall; sleep deprivation; water boarding, and being subjected to biting insects. Zubaydah has suffered 200 seizures since being captured in 2002. In addition, he has confessed to a number of plots that either never happened or those where a connection would have been impossible.

In fact, a source who has spoken to Zubaydah said that Zubaydah, said to be a mere shell of a human, would confess to having assassinated George W. Bush if he were asked the question.

WMR learned from another source involved in investigating torture that there are an additional 2,000 photographs of torture that have not been released by the Pentagon. WMR has also learned that private contractors played a "major role" in torturing detainees in Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Ethnic Uighurs from China, who are innocent of any involvement in terrorism, were also subjected to torture, according to our sources.

America's support for torture has also resulted in rising incidents of torture in 150 countries around the world, according to a Catholic University in Washington source. A recent Pew Research poll of different religious groups in the United States revealed that a majority of evangelical Christians support torture, Roman Catholics are evenly split, a majority of mainstream Protestants are opposed to torture, and an overwhelming majority of non-religious secular respondents are opposed to the practice. Although a number of leading Jewish commentators and leaders such as Charles Krauthammer and Alan Dershowitz favor torture, Pew did not poll the Jewish community because the national percentage in relation to the overall population was considered too low.

Saturday, May 02, 2009

Factions within the Neo-Fascist US utterly corrupt government....


Factions within the Neo-Fascist US utterly corrupt government....

The Obama regime is not necessarily united when it comes to policies on matters such as China.

* there are four factions within the US government (Meeting with Thierry Meyssan ):

1. The Defense Faction.

This includes Robert Gates, 'the real boss in Washington', Brent Scowcroft and certain generals.

They want to:

Keep troops in Afghanistan.

Reach an agreement with Iran and Syria.

Neutralise Russia and China.

Keep the Pentagon as the strongest institution in the USA.

2. The Treasury and the Department of Commerce.

This includes Geithner and Paul Volcker, 'the Rockefeller protégés'.

They have the support of the Trilateral Commission.

They want to save both Wall Street and the City.

They see an opportunity to 'concentrate capital and to trample the resistance to globalization underfoot.'

They 'can grow richer by buying back industrial jewels for next to nothing.'

Unlike the Pentagon, they want an alliance with China.

They want to prevent the rise of an economic block centered on China and 'draining raw materials from Africa.'

And they note that China owns 40% of the US Treasury bonds.

3. The Department of State Faction.

This is led by Hillary Clinton, a Zionist.

They want unconditional support of Israel.

The Zionists 'will likely push for the Korbel-Albright-Rice project aiming at transforming the UN into a large impotent forum and creating a competing organization: the Community of Democracies backed by NATO, its armed wing.'

They aim 'to impose their men in the Ministries of Finance and at the head of the banking institutions all around the world.'

4. The National Security Council.

This is under the influence of Zbigniew Brzezinski.

They believe it's 'the astronomical debt required to fund the Iraq war that triggered the economic collapse of the United States.'

Unlike 1929, 'war won’t be the solution.'

They want to:

'Force the money back into the US by destroying the competing foreign tax havens and destabilizing the economies of the developed countries,' as 'tested in Greece.'

(And India?)

'Maintain the illusion of the US military power in pursuing the occupation of Afghanistan.'

Prevent an alliance between Syria, Iran and China.

Prevent an alliance between Russia and China (Shanghai Cooperation Organization).

*More here: Meeting with Thierry Meyssan

Thursday, April 30, 2009

We need a CI squad especially for the SriLankan and Ethiopian MOSSAD/CIA conduits.....in Lebanon urgently.....


Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Mossad, the CIA, drugs and arms dealers....

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We need a CI squad especially for the SriLankan and Ethiopian MOSSAD/CIA conduits.....in Lebanon urgently.....

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-1734217,00.html


http://www.lankalibrary.com/pol/war_games.htm

Sri Lankan foreign minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, a Tamil Christian, was bringing peace to Sri Lanka.

This was bad news for the arms dealers.

On 12 August 2005, Lakshman Kadirgamar was shot dead as he climbed out of the swimming pool at his luxury home.

SP Thamilselvan, leader of the Tamil Tigers’ political wing, denied that the Tigers were involved. He suggested that elements of the majority Sinhalese might be responsible. “We know there are sections within the Sri Lankan armed forces operating with a hidden agenda to sabotage the ceasefire,” he said.

Arms dealers? Sri Lanka’s arms dealers, ‘a shadowy bunch of politicians, servicemen, bureaucrats and their relatives and friends, who conclude multi-million-dollar deals nearly every day pocketing hefty commissions’ are the beneficiaries of trouble in Sri lanka.

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http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2241_south_india_groups.html

According to Larouche:

“In the early 1970s, the LTTE (Tamil Tigers) began establishing training camps and secret arms caches under the cover of a chain of Refugee and Rehabilitation Farms of the Gandhian Society.

“Funds for the farms came from Oxfam (Oxford Famine Relief), one of the most powerful and secretive British intelligence organizations acting under non-governmental organization cover…

John Glover, a British feature writer, wrote to the Western Mail in Wales about the ongoing and future training programs for Tamil youth by British mercenaries.

“A band of mercenary soldiers recruited in South Wales is training a Tamil army to fight for a separate state in Sri Lanka. About 20 mercenaries were signed up after a meeting in Cardiff and have spent the last two months in southern India preparing a secret army to fight the majority Sinhalas, in the cause of a separate Tamil state in Sri Lanka,” he said…

According to accounts by retired officials of the Israeli secret service, the Mossad, the Israelis were simultaneously training the Sri Lanka Army and the Tigers, and providing arms to each.

“Victor Ostrovsky, author of By Way of Deception, told Indian Abroad news service in 1991 that the Tigers were trained in Israel in 1985. “These groups kept coming and going. It was part of our routine job to take them to training camps and make sure that they were getting training worth what they paid for, not more and not less.” The groups paid in cash.

“Ostrovsky said that the arrangement for the training was made by the Mossad liaison in India, who lived there under a British passport.

“A December 1983 Sunday Mail article reported that the Mossad was arming and training the Tigers, as well as the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.

The British Special Air Services (SAS) firm Keenie Meenie Services, was simultaneously training the Sri Lankan Army and the LTTE…

The LTTE is reported to be involved in trafficking heroin…

“According to intelligence reports, most of the arms used by the LTTE are purchased from Singapore, India, Afghanistan, and the Mideast.

“In 1987, the Hindustan Times reported that large quantities of arms with Pakistani and Israeli markings were seized by the Indian Peacekeeping Force in Jaffna from the LTTE.

In 1989, according to a Sri Lankan government secretary, the LTTE was receiving armaments directly from the Sri Lankan government of President Ranasinghe Premadasa, who wanted to force the expulsion of the Indian Peacekeeping Force from Sri Lanka, and who was also using the LTTE to wipe out the JVP (People’s Liberation Front) Sinhala insurgency…

“The LTTE reportedly has bought Russian-made Strela anti-aircraft missiles from Belgian arms dealers.”

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http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/DG13Df01.html

Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, was killed in 1991 by the Sri Lankan Tamil Tigers -Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam

Justice Jain’s final investigated the conspiracy to assassinate Gandhi.

He came across evidence that one suspect known as Chandraswami had links with the CIA and Mossad, and through them with the LTTE.

Justice Jain ’seems convinced’ that Chandraswami was involved.

According to Asia Times:

Justice Jain ‘has linked Chandraswami with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) in which arms dealer Adnan Kashoggi, several terrorist groups, and intelligence outfits like the CIA and Mossad had accounts.

‘The money in it was used for terrorist operations and political assassinations. The report is quoted as saying that $4 million of Mr Kashoggi’s money was transferred to the LTTE’s accounts. Justice Jain had said this on the basis of a 130-page document prepared by US Senator John Kiri.

‘The commission quotes evidence of former cabinet secretary Zafar Saiffullah who said Chandraswami had links with Mossad and the CIA, and that the government had received intercepts of wireless communication between Israel (where Mossad is based) and Jaffna (where the LTTE was operating till recently) which established Chandraswami’s involvement…

‘Money transactions in Chandraswami’s name and his links with international arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi and the now defunct Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) have made the commission point an accusing finger…’

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http://xymphora.blogspot.com/2005/08/various-israeli-conspiracy-theories.html

Quote from a review by Sachi Sri Kantha of “By Way of Deception; The Making and Unmaking of a Mossad Officer”, the famous book on the inner secrets of the Mossad by Victor Ostrovsky and Claire Hoy:

“Ostrovski’s disclosures on the deals made by the military and political power-brokers of the ruling UNP and the Mossad had been published in excerpts in the Tamil Nation of Oct.15, 1990.

“What shocked the Sinhalese ruling establishment and the journalists (including the editor of Lanka Guardian, Mervyn de Silva) was the revelation of Ostrovski that Mossad had trained the Sinhalese military personnel and ‘a group of Tamil guerrilla factions’ simultaneously….

“Oh, and here’s the good part. Israel trained the Sri Lankan resistance in the mid 1980’s. The very first Tamil Tiger suicide attack was on July 5, 1987.

“Obviously influenced by the success of the Tamil Tigers, and prompted by the Israeli state terrorism against the Palestinian people, the Palestinians started using suicide bombers in the 1990’s.

“Are you thinking what I’m thinking?

“Is it just possible that the technique of suicide bombing - now of course migrated to such places as New York, Iraq, and London - is the ultimate example of ‘blowback’, as it was taught to the Sri Lankans in the mid 1980’s by the Israelis, who ended up on the wrong side of it when the Palestinians picked it up in 1993, and used it particularly from 2000 on.

“Where would the Israelis have learned of its success? From Lebanon in the 1980’s. The technique was first used in Lebanon in December 1981 by the Islamic Dawa Party (the current Prime Minister of Iraq is a member of this party!)…..

“If Israel learned of the tactical success of the technique by studying Hezbollah’s use of it in Lebanon, and passed it on to the Sri Lankans in the mid-1980’s - possibly just to cause enough conflict in Sri Lanka to generate more business training the Sri Lankan army at expensive rates! - it would be very ironic if the Palestinians took it up as the only alternative open to them at a time when the similarly powerless Tamils were using it to great success in Sri Lanka. The example of the Palestinians has led to the technique being used everywhere….”

Although the corporate media is focusing on Sri Lanka's military assistance from China, little mention is being made of the island nation's military links with Israel.

After the establishment of diplomatic ties between Jerusalem and Colombo, Israeli military technicians arrived to maintain Sri Lanka's Israeli-made Kfir fighter-bombers and Russian MiG-27 aircraft and provided Sri Lanka with Dvora fast naval attack craft. Israeli arms and ammunition also began flooding into Sri Lanka.

Soon, Israeli military advisers and "consultants" were regular visitors to Colombo's new Access Lanka Building, owned by relatives of Sri Lanka's top military officers. Among Israel's security exports to Sri Lanka was state-of-the-art electronic and imagery surveillance equipment. Israeli air force pilots reportedly flew Sri Lankan attack aircraft against Tamil Tiger targets on the Jaffna peninsula. Israeli military personnel were also reported to have taken part in Sri Lankan military attacks on Tamil units.

Due to Israel's military assistance to Sri Lanka, Palestinians reportedly began aiding the Tamils in the 1980s. It is also believed that Israel's Mossad recrtuited agents among Sri Lanka's large contingent of foreign workers in the Persian Gulf Arab states. There were also reports that Israelis were also providing weapons and training to Tamil guerrillas in order to maintain a "market" for Israeli arms suppliers in the civil war-wracked island nation.

On March 2, 2007, WMR reported: "WMR visited Phnom Penh, Cambodia and discovered that the Mossad and Cambodian criminal syndicate allies continue to obtain bought-back Cambodian weapons from Cambodian government warehouses and are selling them to guerrilla groups throughout Asia, including Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers, anti-Laotian Hmongs, the small anti-communist Free Vietnam Movement, and Burmese tribal guerrilla groups. WMR photographed a number of Zim shipping containers portside along the Mekong River in Phnom Penh. From this and other port facilities, including the port of Sihanoukville, bought-back Cambodian weapons, some originally provided to the Khmer Rouge by [Israeli tycoon Shaul] Eisenberg and the Chinese, are making their way to insurgent groups around Asia, possibly including Iraqi guerrillas battling U.S. forces in Iraq."

Tamil guerrillas have claimed to have destroyed an Israeli-made Sri Lankan fast naval attack craft, perhaps reminiscent of Hezbollah's destruction of the INS Hanit, a Saar-V class missile corvette, which was deployed off the Lebanese coast during the 2006 Israeli attack on Lebanon, with a C-802 Iranian-made Noor missile.

Although Sri Lanka suspended diplomatic ties with Israel in 1970 over the failure of the Israelis to withdrawal from illegally-occupied Palestinian territory, However, operating an Interests Section within the U.S. embassy in Colombo, Israeli-Sri Lankan ties began to grow closer in the mid-1980s. Israel provided Sri Lanka with military advisers and established a special commando unit for the Sri Lankan police.

In 1990, Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa ordered the Israeli Interests Section at the U.S. embassy to close its doors and two Israeli diplomats in Colombo were ordered t leave. Premadasa was said to have come under pressire from Muslim ministers in his government. In 1990, Premadasa also ordered a government investigation of charges that Mossad was training both Sri Lankan and Tamil guerrilla forces. On September 25, 1991, Reuters reported from Colombo: "Sri Lankan President Ranasinghe Premadasa, fighting against a campaign to have him impeached, yesterday accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of plotting against him because he closed the Israeli interests section in the U.S. embassy. He spoke at the opening session of parliament."

On May 1, 1993, Premadasa was assassinated in Colombo during May Day festivities by a suicide bomber said to be a Tamil guerrilla. Twenty three other people were killed in the blast. On May 28, 1993, Abdul Hameed Mohammed Azwer, Sri Lankan minister of state for Muslim affairs, said in Jeddah: "Israel was enraged by when they were expelled from Sri Lanka by Premadasa and I suspect the Mossad was behind the dastardly murder of this respected leader."

Those behind Premadasa's assassination remains an Asian "cold case." On September 23, 1997, Attorney General Sarath Silva released 18 Tamil suspects in the assassination of the president, citing lack of evidence. Silva declared the case would be officially deemed as "unsolved."

During a March 2009 trip to Israel by Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickremanayake, talks were held with Israel's leading arms suppliers on increased military aid by the Israelis to Sri Lanka.

Israel continues to supply Sri Lanka with arms and military training even after the United States and Britain cut off military supplies to Sri Lanka over the government's human rights violations.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Engaging the Muslim world




Engaging the ... world

Lebanon does not march in lockstep with Iran, .... It is defined by a kaleidoscope of alliances....

Despite the conviction in Washington, D.C., that Lebanon is becoming an Iranian outpost, the reality is more complex. The Levantine country is a playground for oil-rich governments and investors. Smaller than Connecticut, and with a population of only about 4 million, it is uneasily wedged between Israel and Syria. Its employed workers are mainly in the financial services and tourism sectors (three-fourths of the labor force), while nearly a fifth work in industry and only 5 percent still farm. A fifth of Lebanon's population is unemployed, and over a fourth lives below the poverty line. Its major city, Beirut, consists of boxy white towers crowding the edges of the indigo Mediterranean and extending up rolling hills. In times of political calm, Beirut hosts summer music festivals for European youth and pilgrims from nearby puritanical societies seeking the profane shrines of nightclubs and casinos. Smart hotels and fashionable shopping districts lace through a city reeling from the negative effects of wars and bombings.

Lebanon's sectarian and ethnic divides, between Christian and Muslim, Sunni and Shiite, Armenian and Palestinian, do not produce polarization so much as kaleidoscopic alliances and feuds that shift with head-spinning alacrity; they often pit members of the same group against one another. A little less than a century ago, Lebanon was a majority Christian society carved out of Syria by French colonial masters. Today its population is probably only 30 percent Christian. Among the Muslim majority, the fastest-growing group is the Shiites, who are also the poorest community. Good statistics on Lebanon's population are not easy to come by, but my own estimate is that Lebanon is now 45 percent Shiite and that in twenty years it will likely be a majority Shiite society.

Despite their political support for Hizbullah, Lebanese Shiites should not be assumed to share its puritanical attitudes. Many Shiite young women are every bit as chic and oriented toward Paris fashion as their Maronite Catholic peers, and cosmopolitan Shiite families often have outposts in Brazil or West Africa. One of the more scandalous video music stars in Beirut, known for her baby face and steamy dance moves, is Haifa Wahbi, whose father is a Shiite. In December 2007, I flew to Lebanon to give a talk at the American University of Beirut. On my trip I had a conversation with a Shiite graduate student from the village of Qana in the south, who was studying comparative literature at Lebanese American University and enjoying Arundhati Roy's "God of Small Things" -- an Indian novel about a star-crossed romance that transgresses caste taboos.

In 2006, the Pew Charitable Trust's Global Values Project released the results of a poll showing that nearly half of Lebanese Muslims are secular in outlook. It concluded, "Although Lebanese Muslims consider Islam an important part of their lives, they place less emphasis on their faith than do Muslims elsewhere." Only 54 percent of Lebanese said that "religion is very important." In societies such as Pakistan and Morocco, over 90 percent of respondents assent to this sentiment. Likewise, less than a third of Lebanese Muslims say they think of themselves first as Muslims and only secondarily as Lebanese. An equal number openly asserts that being Lebanese is more important to them than their religious identity. Fully 86 percent of Lebanese Muslims have a favorable view of Christians (which is natural since they have far more Christian neighbors and friends than Muslims in most other countries in the region).

Nevertheless, the U.S. mass media cannot mention the word "Hizbullah" without showing stock footage of its small paramilitary marching in ski masks. Former president George W. Bush denounced the movement as a form of "Islamic fascism." But it is obvious, as noted earlier, that large numbers of Lebanese Shiites who vote for Hizbullah are not very religious and that they back the party for secular reasons. Likewise, they may take money from Iran, but they are mostly uninterested in Khomeinist Puritanism, .

During my 2007 trip, I spoke on a Tuesday afternoon at the university, and Wednesday was a Muslim holy day, so I had it free. My host, the geographer Patrick McGreevy, and his wife, Betsy, kindly took me on a whirlwind afternoon tour of Shiite areas south of the capital. McGreevy, who sports a shock of gray hair, a salt-and-pepper mustache and a chic black wardrobe, heads the university's innovative Center for American Studies and Research, endowed by Saudi billionaire al-Walid bin Talal to promote knowledge of the United States in the Arab world. McGreevy and his wife had bravely stayed in Beirut during the 2006 war to show their devotion to their new home, unlike most foreign residents of the capital and unlike a lot of middle-class Beirutis, who headed ABROAD....

On July 23, 2006, McGreevy circulated to friends a poignant meditation on how the war affected the Shiite slums and rural south far more deeply than it did swanky Ras Beirut, referring to that part of the capital as the uppermost, least uncomfortable ring of hell. He described how some 50,000 refugees had streamed into the port of Sideon. The far south, from which many of the refugees came, was the lowest rung of hell, an inferno of exploding munitions and villagers set on the road by horror. At the end of that war, in its last three days, the Israelis dropped 2 million cluster bombs on south Lebanon, an act that had no legitimate military purpose but rather was designed to discourage Shiite villagers from returning to their homes. The ploy failed, but the cluster bombs did kill civilians, including children. It was a war crime, since the bombs were clearly intended to harm civilians in typical IDF fashion and history since Sabra And Shatila in 1982...

A year and a half later, as we headed through Beirut on our one-hour journey to Tyre, we could see to the west, along the seashore, massive piles of rubble that bulldozers had cleared from the slums of south Beirut (the Dahiya quarter). Those residential neighborhoods had been so heavily bombed by the Israelis during the summer war that the damage was visible even from outer space. Entire city blocks began to look vacant in satellite photographs. The Hizbullah offices were the primary Israeli targets here, but these administrative centers were located in the midst of crowded civilian tenements.

The intensive Israeli bombing campaign inflicted $3.6 billion in infrastructural damage and killed as many as 1,400 persons, most of them civilians. Hundreds of thousands of Shiites huddled in schools and other public buildings, having fled their homes in the south, and they were received with open arms by all Lebanese.

Hizbullah's impressive resistance and emergency fund, to which Iran is said to have contributed, allowed it to give out food and other aid to Shiites displaced by the war. Afterward, some of the rebuilding of south Beirut was carried out by Hizbullah's Holy War for Reconstruction, which receives funding from Iran as well as from Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. One engineer working with the organization, Yasser al-Hajj, boasted to an American reporter, "We are going to rebuild Dahiya before you [Americans] rebuild New Orleans from Katrina." On the road through the southern suburbs, I saw wooden posts placed in highway islands that bore images of the Lebanese, Hizbullah and Iranian flags.

Monday, March 16, 2009

Timeline of some CIA Atrocities


Timeline of some CIA Atrocities


CIA operations follow the same recurring script. First, American
business interests abroad are threatened by a popular or
democratically elected leader. The people support their leader
because he intends to conduct land reform, strengthen unions,
redistribute wealth, nationalize foreign-owned industry, and
regulate business to protect workers, consumers and the
environment.

So, on behalf of American business, and often with their help,
the CIA mobilizes the opposition. First it identifies right-wing
groups within the country (usually the military), and offers
them a deal: "We'll put you in power if you maintain a favorable
business climate for us." The Agency then hires, trains and
works with them to overthrow the existing government (usually a
democracy). It uses every trick in the book: propaganda, stuffed
ballot boxes, purchased elections, extortion, blackmail, sexual
intrigue, false stories about opponents in the local media,
infiltration and disruption of opposing political parties,
kidnapping, beating, torture, intimidation, economic sabotage,
death squads and even assassination.

Operation PAPERCLIP

While other American agencies are hunting down Nazi war
criminals for arrest, the U.S. intelligence community is
smuggling them into America, unpunished, for their use against
the Soviets

1947: Greece

President Truman requests military aid to Greece to support
right-wing forces fighting communist rebels. For the rest of the
Cold War, Washington and the CIA will back notorious Greek
leaders with deplorable human rights records

1965

Greece
With the CIA's backing, the king removes George Papandreous as
prime minister. Papandreous has failed to vigorously support U.S.
interests in Greece

1967: Greece

A CIA-backed military coup overthrows the government two days
before the elections. The favorite to win was George Papandreous,
the liberal candidate. During the next six years, the "reign of
the colonels" - backed by the CIA - will usher in the widespread
use of torture and murder against political opponents. When a
Greek ambassador objects to President Johnson about U.S. plans
for Cyprus, Johnson tells him: "Fuck your parliament and your
constitution....

Fast forward: 2001
An Investigation Into 9/11...

http://tinyurl.com/cv73sp

Saturday, February 28, 2009

The Investigation of the INSLAW Affair....



The Investigation of the INSLAW Affair.

(Mind you, worked for..... who Dick Cheney now invests in.)

{....} Inslaw, Promis.... and covert software

HIS (Riconosciuto) FIRST TESTIMONY

On March 21, 1992, Riconosciuto stated in an affidavit to the Court and Congress – and before he was arrested – the following:

* During the 1980s he served as the Director of Research for a joint venture between the Wackenhut Corporation of Coral Gables, Florida, and the Cabazon Band of Indians of Indio, California. The joint venture was located on the Cabazon reservation.

* The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture sought to develop and/or manufacture certain materials that are used in military and national security operations, including night vision goggles, machine guns, fuel-air explosives, and biological and chemical warfare weapons.

* The Cabazon Band of Indians are a sovereign nation. The sovereign immunity that is accorded the Cabazons as a consequence of this fact made it feasible to pursue on the reservation the development and/or manufacture of materials whose development or manufacture would be subject to stringent controls off the reservation. As a minority group, the Cabazon Indians also provided the Wackenhut Corporation with an enhanced ability to obtain federal contracts through the 8A Set Aside Program, and in connection with Government-owned contractor-operated (GOCO) facilities.

* The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture was intended to support the needs of a number of foreign governments and forces, including forces and governments in Central America and the Middle East. The Contras in Nicaragua represented one of the most important priorities for the joint venture.

* The Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture maintained close liaison with certain elements of the United States Government, including representatives of intelligence, military, and law enforcement agencies.

* Among the frequent visitors to the Wackenhut-Cabazon joint venture were Peter Videnieks of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and a close associate of Videnieks by the name of Earl W. Brian. Brian is a private businessman who lives in Maryland and who has maintained close business ties with the U.S. intelligence community for many years.

* In connection with my work for Wackenhut, I engaged in some software development and modification work in 1983 and 1984 on the proprietary PROMIS computer software product. The copy of PROMIS on which I worked came from the U.S. Department of Justice. Earl W. Brian made it available to me through Wackenhut after acquiring it from Peter Videnieks, who was then a Department of Justice contracting official with responsibility for the PROMIS software. I performed the modifications to PROMIS in Indio, California, Silver Spring, Maryland, and Miami, Florida.

* The purpose of the PROMIS software modification that I made in 1983 and 1984 was to support a plan for the implementation of PROMIS in law enforcement and intelligence agencies worldwide. Earl W. Brian was spearheading the plan for this worldwide use of the PROMIS computer software.

* Some of the modifications that I made were specifically designed to facilitate the implementation of PROMIS within two agencies of the Government of Canada: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS). Earl W. Brian would check with me from time to time to make certain that the work would be completed in time to satisfy the schedule for the RCMP and CSIS implementations of PROMIS.

* The propriety version of PROMIS, as modified by me, was, in fact implemented in both the RCMP and the CSIS in Canada. It was my understanding that Earl W. Brian had sold this version of PROMIS to the Government of Canada.

* In February 1991, I had a telephone conversation with Peter Videnieks, then still employed by the U.S. Department of Justice. Videnieks attempted during this telephone conversation to persuade me not to cooperate with an independent investigation of the government's piracy of INSLAW's proprietary PROMIS software being conducted by the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. House of Representatives.

* Videnieks stated that I would be rewarded for a decision not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation. Videnieks forecasted an immediate and favorable resolution of a protracted child custody dispute being prosecuted against my wife by her former husband, if I were to decide not to cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee investigation.

* Videnieks also outlined specific punishments that I could expect to receive from the U.S. Department of Justice if I cooperated with the House Judiciary Committee's investigation.

* One punishment that Videnieks outlined was the future inclusion of me and my father in a criminal prosecution of certain business associates of mine in Orange County, California, in connection with the operation of a savings and loan institution in Orange County. By way of underscoring his power to influence such decisions at the U.S. Department of Justice, Videnieks informed me of the indictment of these business associates prior to the time when that indictment was unsealed and made public.

* Another punishment that Videnieks threatened against me if I cooperate with the House Judiciary Committee is prosecution by the U.S. Department of Justice for perjury. Videnieks warned me that credible witnesses would come forward to contradict any damaging claims that I made in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, and that I would subsequently be prosecuted for perjury by the U.S Department of Justice for my testimony before the House Judiciary Committee.

Stanford is the tip of the iceberg on covert activities.


Stanford's Latin American operations linked to U.S."counter-narcotics" efforts....;

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/7/26/outsourcing_intelligence_author_r_j_hillhouse

Stanford is the tip of the iceberg on covert activities.

Although it stands accused of laundering money for narco-interests in countries like Panama, Colombia, and Mexico, the Stanford Financial Group of "Sir" R. Allen Stanford is being linked by investigators to the world of U.S. government covert and overt counter-narcotics programs in Latin America and the Caribbean.

WMR has learned from a knowledgeable source that FAA records point to a Stanford & Associates, Inc. address at 1329 Alum Springs Road #101 in Fredericksburg, Virginia. The address is listed for Stanford's Learjet (N60CE), which was exported to Germany in 2001. The same address was used for HS 125-700A (N81QV), exported to the Cayman Islands in 2000, Cessna 650 (N1239L), exported to Germany in 2000, Another Stanford & Associates address is at 1661 N. Swan Road, Suite 200-6, Tucson, Arizona for a Learjet (N613SA), exported to Germany in 2000.

Stanford Aircraft at 201 S. Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, Florida was used for Gulfstream G-IV (N2SA), Stanford Aviation 5555 LLC at the same Miami address was used for Gulfstream G-IV (N3SA). Stanford Aviation LLC at the Miami address was used for Bombardier 700-1A10 (N1SA). Stanford Aviation II at the Miami address was used for Hawker 800XP (N4SA). Stanford Aviation III LLC at the Miami address was used for Hawker 800XP (N14SA). Stanford Aviation 5555 LLC at 5050 Westheimer, Houston has reserved N100SA. Stanford Aviation at the Houston address was used for HS-125-600A (N10SA).

Stanford Aviation LLC at 100 Jim Davidson Drive, Sugar Land, Texas was used for Convair 440 (N800SA).

It was in Fredericksburg where FBI agents located Stanford to serve him papers that accused him of fraud. Stanford was not arrested. The chief investment officer for Stanford Financial Group, Laura Pendergest-Holt, was arrested by the FBI in Houston on February 26.

A Google search on the 1329 Alum Springs Road address in Fredericksburg does not turn up Stanford & Associates, Inc. but does turn up two aircraft dealers and distributors sharing the same phone number, AV Craft and Zenith Aviation Inc.

WMR has learned that the owner of the 1329 Alum Springs address receives a check from Abby Construction for the rent for both Abby and Zenith Aviation. The President and CEO of Zenith is a Robert F. Stanford. It is not known if there is a relationship between Robert F. Stanford and Robert Allen Stanford of Stanford Financial Group. Allen Stanford was reportedly staying at the Heather Hills, Fredericksburg townhouse of Bryan Stoelker, the brother of Stanford's reputed girlfriend, Andrea Stoelker.

The Zenith/Abby landlord believes that Abby and Zenith were partner firms and that he knew of a "Bob Stanford" and a secretary working out of the Zenith office.

One of the principals of Abby is a past employee of Oceaneering International, Inc. of Houston, a firm that WMR has cited in the past as being connected to CIA activities. WMR has also reported that U.S. Judge Mark Fuller and Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) have financial interests in Oceaneering. Zenith also maintains a facility in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Zenith has apparently carried out "special missions" for the U.S. government in Iceland (a major stopover point for CIA rendition aircraft), Europe, the Baltic states, India, Malaysia, Brunei, Thailand, Nepal, and Australia. A former principal of Zenith once was responsible for modifying A-37s for "airborne intercepts" in Peru and Colombia. It was a Peruvian Air Force A-37 that intercepted and strafed the Cessna carrying a family of Baptist missionaries. Veronica Bowers and her adopted infant daughter Charity were killed in the attack. Bowers' husband Jim, a native of Muskegon, Michigan; their 7-year old son Cory, and the American pilot were wounded. A Cessna Citation surveillance plane operated by CIA contractor Aviation Development Corporation, headquartered at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama provided the coordinates for the missionaries' plane to the A-37. The former Zenith principal provided training for the Peruvian Air Force and "other Department of State clients" at Zenith's Tucson facility.

The former Zenith principal went to work for Viva International, based Traverse City which, on January 16, 2007, bought privately-owned River Hawk Aviation of San Antonio, Texas. Viva changed its name to River Hawk Aviation. According to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, Viva International and its Puerto Rican subsidiary, Eastern Caribbean Airlines, faced a number of legal problems that put the firm in financial jeopardy. In one filing Viva stated: "Syed Hasan versus Viva International, Inc. and Eastern Caribbean Airlines Corporation has not been resolved and could result in an adverse result. Although the Company has recorded certain liabilities on its books pursuant to the Hasan legal matter, it does not currently have the ability to settle the claim from available assets. The Company's legal representation has recently withdrawn due to lack of payment and has not yet been replaced."

The SEC filings also report that Viva rented hangar office space and storage on a "month-to-month" basis at the San Juan, Puerto Rico airport and rented office space in Michigan. In January 2005, Viva entered into a joint venture with Cool Travels, Inc., also known as San Juan Aviation, an airline charter firm. River Hawk Aviation has subsidiary operations in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. A Viva SEC filing stated the firm "plans to create a "network of regionally based airlines across the Caribbean, eventually to be linked to key points in the United States, Latin America, South America, and Europe." The SEC filing on Viva's acquisition of River Hawk states: assets of River Hawk included in the purchase are, among other things; all tangible personal property and all inventories, including a SAAB 340A Aircraft and aircraft engines and other mechanical aviation components and parts, contracts, customer lists and contacts, [and] government authorizations."

On March 13, 2006, Viva announced it had received $4 million in financing from investment banker, S. G. Martin Securities of Rocky Point, New York.

The pattern is familiar to one informed source who contacted WMR. The source stated: "the CIA continues to created these false front aviation/parts corporations, infuses some government money to get them up and running, then sells them to another government- created entity and the CIA shaves off the excess cash." The pattern is similar to the CIA shell companies used to mask the agency's extraordinary rendition program that relied on chartered aircraft.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Albright and Cohen prepare to "prevent genocide" again for Obama


Albright and Cohen prepare to "prevent genocide" again for Obama

The team of Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State under Bill Clinton, and William Cohen, Defense Secretary under Clinton, have offered advice to the Barack Obama administration on preventing genocide. Under Albright, the United States actually exacerbated genocide by carrying out covert and overt military and intelligence programs in the Great Lakes region of Africa, the Balkans,Iraq, Afghanistan, Sudan, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Tibet, Pakistan, East Timor....etc....

Albright and Cohen rolled out a report titled "Preventing Genocide: A Blueprint for U.S. Policymakers" at a pre-inaugural conference, called "Passing the Baton," held in Washington and sponsored by the neocon U.S. Institute for Peace, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, McDonalds, and Coca Cola.

The Albright-Cohen report was funded by the U.S. Institute for Peace, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the American Academy of Diplomacy. The report is rife with references to Darfur, East Timor, Liberia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone but is silent on the genocide carried out by Israel against southern Lebanon, the West Bank, and Gaza.

The report talks about the genocide committed by the Khmer Rouge's Santebal and the Pinochet junta's Caravan of Death in Chile but fails to mention the support for these operations given by Albright's and Cohen's old friend Henry Kissinger, who was recently tapped as Obama's special envoy to talk to the Kremlin.

Nor does the report mention the genocide of Serbs carried out by Albright's "boy toy," Kosovo Liberation Army terrorist leader Hashim Thaci, who now governs independent Kosovo, a state beholden to organized criminal syndicates that hosts one of the largest U.S. military bases in Europe, Camp Bondsteel.

Arab Middle Easterners still painfully recall the days when Clinton's foreign policy was dictated by the "ABC team" of Albright, Berger [National Security Adviser Sandy Berger], and Cohen, all of whom were known to be pro-Israeli due to their family backgrounds.

Similarly, Albright's Czech roots and the Yugoslav warrant issued for the arrest of her professor-diplomat father, Joseph Korbel, for the theft of art from Prague, brought forth extreme anti-Serbian policies by Albright, much as Zbigniew Brzezinski's Polish heritage evoked almost-pathological hatred of Russia while he served as Jimmy Carter's National Security Adviser.

For aficionados of the Clinton-era interventionist policies that saw the first aerial bombing of a European city, Belgrade, since the days of Adolf Hitler, the Albright-Cohen report does not disappoint. The two argue for a continuance of such tactics to combat "genocide" as arms embargoes (such as the disastrous embargo of Iraq that resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths of Iraqis, including children), radio and cell phone jamming, no-fly zones, "covert operations," covert military training and assistance, "safe havens," economic threats, increased intelligence collection and surveillance, use of satellites and unmanned aerial vehicles to collect intelligence, jam media and "hate radio," precision targeting and air campaigns.

In a tip of the hat to the Bush administration's much-riduculed "coalition of the willing," the Albright-Cohen report seems to fail to grasp facts from recent history. The "coalition of the willing" in Iraq was a propaganda gimmick and a failure. However, Albright and Cohen suggest that if the Obama administration cannot convince the UN, NATO, or the African Union to take the above actions abroad, "the only choice for the United States may be to try to assemble a coalition of like-minded nations to act." That really worked well the last time the United States took such a path...

Monday, February 16, 2009

في قراراغتيال آصف شوكت‎ إسرائيل تعيش «فوبيا» مغنيّة بانتظار الردّ



في قراراغتيال آصف شوكت‎ الاغتيال...;إسرائيل تعيش «فوبيا» مغنيّة بانتظار الردّ


في بحث سوريا عن انتقام حزب الله لاغتيالها مسؤوله العسكري، الشهيد عماد مغنية، تبدو دولة سوريا كرجل أعمى في غرفة مظلمة، يبحث عن قطة سوداء، ويتمنّى لو أنها غير موجودة

*منذ إعلان اغتيال الشهيد مغنية، تعيش سوريا حالة متنامية من القلق والخشية غير المسبوقين، وصلت إلى حد إمكان وصفها بـ«فوبيا مغنية». سوريا متيقنة من أن الرد آت لا محالة، ومفتقرة في الوقت نفسه إلى معلومات حسية تقودها إلى تحديد مكان الرد وزمانه وحجمه وأسلوبه... الأمر الذي يطلق العنان لتقديرات وتنبؤات استخبارات واسعة، وهي في أغلبها تقديرات تشاؤمية.
لا يمكن
سوريا أن تستند إلى تجاربها مع حزب الله، القريبة والبعيدة، لتقدّر خطواته الابتدائية أو ردود فعله. ثبت لدى صنّاع القرار الإسرائيلي، بالملموس، أن تقديراتهم المستندة في معظمها إلى قوالب مسبّقة لم تلقَ نجاحاً ملحوظاً في السابق. وإعلان حزب الله بعد عملية الاغتيال مباشرة هوية الشهيد، وتبنّيه، دفعا سوريا إلى إدراك مدى إخفاق قوالب التقدير لديها، والنتائج الاستخبارية المترتبة على هذا الإخفاق، وتالياً دفعها إلى اتخاذ جملة من التدابير والإجراءات الاحترازية، لمواجهة الرد، غير المحدد المعالم والاتجاهات.
حفل العام الماضي، إسرائيلياً، بجلسات نقاش وتقدير وضع، أجرتها الأجهزة الاستخبارية الإسرائيلية،
و سوريا حاولت من خلالها استشراف الرد ومكانه وأسلوبه وحجمه؛ تأهب واستنفار دائم على الحدود الشمالية خشية عمليات أسر يقوم بها حزب الله؛ بيانات يصدرها دورياً «مكتب مكافحة الإرهاب» وتدعو الإسرائيليين إلى اليقظة والحذر، بل وتمنعهم من السفر إلى دول وأماكن محددة حول العالم؛ استدعاء جماعي للإسرائيليين من دول وأماكن «خطرة» خشية الإضرار بهم؛ لائحة بالمسؤولين الإسرائيليين الحاليين والسابقين ممن يجب إرسال رجال أمن لمرافقتهم خلال زياراتهم الرسمية وغير الرسمية إلى الخارج؛ تشديد الحراسة والإجراءات الأمنية على البعثات الدبلوماسية والمراكز اليهودية حول العالم؛ تقليص عدد الدبلوماسيين في السفارات والقنصليات إلى حده الأدنى منعاً للمجازفة والمخاطرة؛ والطلب من الإسرائيليين إخفاء هويتهم أينما كانوا.
إضافةً إلى ذلك، تكتشف إسرائيل، وتعلن، وتقدر، وتظن، وتعرب عن شكوكها، وعن إحباطها أو منعها، بصورة مباشرة أو غير مباشرة، عملية انتقام موعودة، أو عملية انتقام في سلسلة عمليات موعودة. تتلهّى بمفهوم الردع الإسرائيلي وقدرته على منع عملية أو عمليات انتقام، وتجتهد كثيراً في «مغط» ردعها إلى أقصى ما يمكنها، لعلّه يفيدها في طمأنة جمهورها، والتأثير النفسي على أعدائها.
لو قدّر لإسرائيل أن ترجع إلى الوراء، وأن تحذف الفترة الزمنية التي اتخذت فيها قرار اغتيال الشهيد مغنية، بكل ما يرتبط بها من نقاش ودراسة وتقدير وضع للطرف الآخر، لسارعت إلى تلقف الفرصة ووضعت خطاً أحمر حيال هذه المغامرة، مانعة عن نفسها قلقاً متنامياً يوماً بعد يوم، وصل إلى حدود غير مسبوقة.

■ في قرار آصف شوكت‎ الاغتيال

تعدّ عملية اغتيال الشهيد مغنية، هدفاً استراتيجياً بامتياز، أقدمت سوريا على إقراره وتنفيذه... عملية اغتيال مغنية هي من العمليات المفترض أنها استهلكت وقتاً ودراسة ونقاشات طويلة، تتعلق بأصل العمل وفائدته لدولة سوريا ، تخللت ذلك محاولة لتقدير تداعياته على الطرف الآخر وتقدير موقفه ورده المحتمل. وفي الإطار العام لتداعيات الاغتيال، يبدو أن سوريا استحضرت قبل اتخاذ قرارها المشؤوم، «تنصّل» حزب الله من عضوية مغنية طوال السنوات الماضية، وقوع العملية خارج الأراضي اللبنانية، والافتراض بالحرج لدى الإسرائيلي من إعلان هوية آصف شوكت‎ ، الأمر الذي أتاح لها التقدير (وإن لغطاً) أن عملية الاغتيال ستمر دون ضجيج، وتسبّب دفع سوريا وحزب الله إلى لملمة الجراح من دون إعطائها أبعاداً سياسية أو إعلامية، وتالياً تقليص الاندفاع نحو ردود عسكرية وأمنية واسعة.
مثّل إعلان حزب الله هوية الشهيد وتبنّيه، أولى الإشارات التي تلقتها سوريا ، والتي دلت على إخفاق تقديرها لرد فعل الحزب، إذ تدرك سوريا أن أصل إعلان هوية الشهيد، وإعلان موقعه الجهادي الكبير، إشارة غير مباشرة إلى الوجهة التي سيسلكها في رده، وإلى الثمن الكبير الواجب على سوريا دفعه. لو لم يشأ حزب الله الرد، لاكتفى بإعلان متواضع، وأخفى هوية الشهيد، وقدّم رواية مختلفة لعملية الاغتيال، كما كان التوقع السوري المسبّق.

■ في الردع السوري الموهوم

تتناقض الرواية الإسرائيلية، في ما يتعلق بتقدير رد حزب الله، تناقضاً بيّناً إلى درجة التعارض الحادّ. ففي الوقت الذي تشدّد فيه إسرائيل على أن «زعيم حزب الله وعد بالرد وهو معني بتنفيذ وعده«، فإنها تضبط هذا الرد بجملة من «الحسابات والضوابط»، المأمولة إسرائيلياً.
بحسب البيانات الإسرائيلية، الرسمية وغير الرسمية، فإن «رد حزب الله الانتقامي آتٍ، ذلك أن الحزب مصمّم على تنفيذ هجمات للانتقام لمقتل مغنية»، و«زعيم حزب الله وعد بالرد ولا بد له من أن يرد»، وبحسب التقدير الاستخباري الإسرائيلي فإن «حزب الله ينوي تنفيذ رد يسبّب إصابات كثيرة في صفوف الإسرائيليين»، كي يخلق معادلة جديدة تمنعها من متابعة عمليات الاغتيال، بل إن مصادر عسكرية إسرائيلية تشير إلى أن «كثيرين في قيادة الجيش ينظرون بخشية إلى إمكان قيام الحزب بعملية خطف ثانية ضد جنود من الجيش الإسرائيلي، (انطلاقاً من الحدود الشمالية)، أو أن يقوم بتسلّل إلى بلدة إسرائيلية على طول الحدود».
في إطار تقدير الرد أيضاً، يشير المكتب الإسرائيلي لمكافحة «الإرهاب»، إلى نيّات لدى حزب الله «لتنفيذ عملية خطيرة عبر مخطط يهدف إلى اغتيال أو خطف هدف إسرائيلي، على الأغلب في الخارج، وأن عملية كهذه تهدّد كل إسرائيلي، وخصوصاً القادة»، ويشدد المكتب على أن «لدى الأجهزة الأمنيّة الإسرائيليّة معلومات يمكن الاعتماد عليها، عن مساع يبذلها حزب الله لاختطاف إسرائيليّين وتنفيذ هجوم إرهابيّ على أهداف إسرائيليّة ويهودية في الخارج».
ورغم تأكيد الاستخبارات الإسرائيلية حتمية الرد، يجري العمل على إبراز جملة من الضوابط والموانع، المؤمل جدواها في منع حزب الله عن الرد، وهي على الشكل الآتي:
ـــــ أن حزب الله مردوع ومقيّد في ردّه، لأنه يخشى رد الفعل الإسرائيلي، ولا يريد التأثير في نتائج الانتخابات اللبنانية المزمع إجراؤها في حزيران المقبل!.
ـــــ الإجراءات الإسرائيلية المتخذة فاعلة، وتمنع حزب الله من تنفيذ الرد ـــــ إذ جرى إحباط عدد من المحاولات في الخارج.
ـــــ يريد حزب الله أن يركّز أكثر على إعادة تأهيل نفسه عسكرياً، وعملية التأهيل لم تُستكمل بعد.
ـــــ تحالف حزب الله مع إيران يمنعه من الرد، بطريقة تسبّب حرباً وتضرب قدراته.
ـــــ لا يريد حزب الله رداً إسرائيلياً، وهو يخشى من آصف شوكت‎ ثالثة.
ما بين حتمية الرد، المقدر أنه آت لا محالة، وبين الضوابط والموانع، وأكثرها مستند إلى ردع الدولة العبرية، أبرز الحديث الإسرائيلي نظرية «الرد دون بصمات»، بمعنى أن يقدم حزب الله على تنفيذ رده دون أن يجر إسرائيل إلى رد مقابل «يخشاه». بمعنى آخر، سيسعى حزب الله إلى الرد، لكنه سيلتزم عدم إثارة إسرائيل. و«الرد دون بصمات» لا يتساوق بالتأكيد مع التقارير الإسرائيلية التي تتحدث عن إنجازات المؤسسة الأمنية الإسرائيلية حيال حزب الله، و«إحباطها لعمليات خطيرة كان من شأنها أن توقع إصابات كثيرة بين الإسرائيليين».
في سياق ذلك، يشرح الرئيس السابق لشعبة الاستخبارات العسكرية، زئيفي فركش، الباحث في مركز دراسات الأمن القومي، أن «عملية حزب الله دون بصمات، قد تكون على شاكلة إسقاط طائرة مدنية إسرائيلية، تقل عدداً كبيراً من الركاب، على أن يظهر سبب إسقاطها أنه عطل تقني في محركها..». بمعنى أن حزب الله يسعى إلى القتل لمجرد القتل، علماً بأن القتل لمجرد القتل، هو سمة حيوانية دون فوائد، قد تصلح وتتساوق والصورة التي تريد إسرائيل تكوينها عن أعدائها لدى الرأي العام الداخلي والخارجي، لكنها عاجزة عن أن تصيب الواقع. فلا رد دون إدراك من يوجه إليه الرد بأن ما حصل وما سيحصل هو رد، وفي المطلق، لا فائدة من رد لا يُعرف أنه ردّ

Assef Shawkat ( آصف شوكت‎ ) (born 1950) is a Syrian assassin, and head of the Syrian Military Intelligence apparatus since 2005, rewarding him for the successfull assassinations of Mr. Elie HOBEIKA January 24th 2002 , Rafic Hariri, Feb 14th 2005, and his immediate promotion to head of Syria's military Intelligence...on Feb 13th 2005... and Imad F. Moughnieh on Feb. 12th 2008....nice choice of dates by Asef Shawkat the killer murderer and assassin in Chief, a pimp, and a Mafiosi par excellence, in the minority Alawite dictatorship of Syria.
Assef Shawkat ( آصف شوكت‎ ) is the head of the local Damascus branch of the infamous White House Murder Inc, an extra-judicial assassinations matrix, created by the PNAC killers since 1995, and the evil axis of CIA2/MOSSAD which ensued.....
Again and again, a prime suspect in murder/assassinations , starting from the CIA2/MOSSAD assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika in Beirut/Hazmieh January 24th 2002, and the infamous : "White House Murder Inc." , headed by Asef Shawkat in Syria.

http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html

.-- Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah declared on Monday that the Islamic Resistance has the full right to possess all kinds of weaponry, including anti-aircraft weapons, emphasizing that the Resistance has the courage to use such weapons. His eminence renewed his pledge to retaliate the assassination of Islamic Resistance top commander Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan), noting that the Resistance's great martyr has scared the Israelis following his assassination more than ever.

Sayyed Nasrallah was speaking through a large screen during a ceremony organized by Hezbollah in the Sayyed al-Shouhadaa complex at the southern suburb of Beirut to mark the day of "loyalty to martyrs" and remember the sacrifices made by the Resistance martyrs and heroes, mainly the Islamic Resistance "martyrs' Sheikh" Ragheb Harb, the "martyrs' Sayyed" Abbas Moussaoui and Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan).

Sayyed Nasrallah started his speech by recognizing and honoring the sacrifices paid by the Resistance's martyrs and heroes for the interest of Lebanon, the whole Lebanon. "The blood of the Martyrs has returned the citizens of Marjayoun, Hasbaya, Shebaa and Bint Jbeil to their lands and homes without differentiating between those who follow the loyalty or the opposition, and with all the pride and dignity," his eminence recalled, noting that "it's therefore our duty to appreciate those martyrs and highly value their sacrifices."

SAYYED NASRALLAH: SETTLEMENT OPTION IS FIASCO
Sayyed Nasrallah then tackled the relation with the Zionist enemy, noting that Lebanon was split over major political choices. "There are three options in this regard. The first one isn't actually a choice since it stimulates approving the enemy's existence and thus, cooperating with the enemy," his eminence said, noting at the same time that this option couldn't be a "popular" one in Lebanon and the Arab world. "However, there are spies," his eminence said, adding that there are Israeli agents among Arabs, Lebanese and Palestinians.

"The second option was to conclude a settlement with the enemy," the Resistance leader pointed out. "It means that you offer the enemy some concessions in order to get some of the extorted legal rights," his eminence explained. "However, this choice proved its failure and fiasco."

While pointing that "the more concessions the Arabs give, the more arrogant Israel becomes," Sayyed Nasrallah noted that the third option rejects settlement with the enemy. "It is the resistance option," his eminence emphasized. "Why do you want to sacrifice the Resistance for free?" Sayyed Nasrallah asked those who reject this option. "As long as the Arabs grant Israel more concessions, then the enemy will become even fiercer and will not honor its past commitments," Sayyed Nasrallah noted.

SAYYED NASRALLAH: ALL ISRAELI LEADERS WERE DEFEATED IN LEBANON
"The Kuwait summit clearly indicates that the Arab peace initiative will not survive any longer," Hezbollah Secretary General said. "Yet, before this summit, the Israeli answer to the Arab sticking to the Arab initiative was more extremism. The answer also came out during the Israeli elections." Sayyed Nasrallah concluded that compromise with the enemy means conceding territories, the Quds, our security, and water in return for some of our seized lands, some prisoners and a small numbers of refugees.

The Resistance leader said that the right-wing victory in the Israeli elections correctly reflects its image. However, his eminence emphasized that there was no difference between Labor, Likud, and Kadima regarding their attitudes towards Palestinians and Arabs, stressing that all Zionist parties were the same.

However, Sayyed Nasrallah called on everyone not to worry a lot due to the results of the Israeli elections. "All the Israeli leaders who threaten us were defeated in Lebanon," his eminence recalled, noting that there was no difference between the Israeli parties. "However, Israel is not as mighty as it used to be and the resistance is not as weak as it used to be," the Resistance leader emphasized. Sayyed Nasrallah also pointed out that, among the Israeli leaders who took part in the recent elections, Yisrael Beiteinu Chairman Avigdor Lieberman is "the only one who has yet to lose in Lebanon."

Recalling the Israeli 22-day offensive against the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip, Sayyed Nasrallah noted that the main lesson learned from the Gaza war was that the Israeli army is not capable of winning a battle. The Israelis did not try to storm residential areas in the Gaza strip because they were "scared of facing the resistance," his eminence emphasized.

Sayyed Nasrallah addressed the Israeli upcoming government warning against any attempt to "invade" Lebanon once again. "The students of Hajj Redwan, Sayyed Abbas Moussawi and Sheikh Ragheb Harb will destroy the Israeli Army tanks in case it tried to invade any part of Lebanon," his eminence vowed.

SAYYED NASRALLAH: WE HAVE RIGHT TO POSSESS ANTI-AIRCRAFT WEAPONS AND USE THEM
Meanwhile, Hezbollah Secretary General refused to admit or deny what is said about the Resistance's acquiring of arms. "Of course, I do not admit nor deny what is said about the Resistance's acquiring of defense air weapons," the Resistance leader said.

"Every few days there is an Israeli media report that the resistance has obtained advanced air-defense weapons, of course I don't deny or confirm this," Sayyed Nasrallah said. "What I want to confirm today is that we have every right to obtain any weapon, including air-defense weapons, and we have every right to use this weapon," he said.

"We have the right to acquire any kind of weaponry, including the anti-aircraft weapons, and we have the right to use it," Sayyed Nasrallah declared. "It is our right to possess any weapons, including Air Defense, to defend our land," his eminence explained.

Sayyed Nasrallah noted that obtaining such a system would tip the balance in any conflict with Israel because the Zionist entity relies heavily on air supremacy in its military planning.

SAYYED NASRALLAH: ISRAELIS SCARED OF HAJJ REDWAN MORE THAN EVER
Meanwhile, Hezbollah Secretary General renewed his pledge to retaliate the assassination of Islamic Resistance top commander Imad Moghniyyeh (Hajj Redwan). However, Sayyed Nasrallah noted that the Resistance's great martyr has scared the Israelis following his assassination more than ever.

"Imad Moghniyyeh will continue to hunt the Israelis wherever they go, day and night," Sayyed Nasrallah vowed. His eminence stressed that he was not concerned with clarifying things concerning the revenge. "Some of those who wrote during this month about the issue were ambiguous. They ask about the reasons of the delay in Hezbollah's retaliation and at the same time warn that any act could plunge the country into a rejected war," Sayyed Nasrallah noted. "Anyway, I don't have to repeat the pledge but we promised and we will fulfill our promise of course," Sayyed Nasrallah vowed.

SAYYED NASRALLAH CALLS ON NATION TO SUPPORT RESISTANCE
Before turning to the local affairs, the Resistance leader didn't forget to urge the whole nation to support the resistance option in confronting the Zionist enemy. His eminence called on Arab and Islamic governments, including those who might have negotiated with the enemy, to embrace the Resistance. "It's wrong to set the Resistance factions accountable because the Resistance is no doubt strength for the nation," Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized.

His eminence, meanwhile, renewed his support to all forms of dialogue and to the Palestinian-Palestinian reconcliation. Sayyed Nasrallah also welcomed any inter-Arab reconciliation, especially between Saudi Arabia and Syria. "We support any kind of Palestinian reconciliation, and we express our support of any kind of Arab rapprochement; especially between Saudi Arabia and Syria," his eminence said.

SAYYED NASRALLAH CALLS FOR CALM, DENOUNCES VIOLENCE
Sayyed Nasrallah devoted a large part at the end of his speech for the Lebanese internal affairs. His eminence commented on Saturday's commemoration of the forth anniversary of the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri by the March 14 forces. His eminence expressed hope that one day, the blood of martyrs, especially the great ones, would bind the Lebanese together.

While stressing on the serious need to respect all martyrs, Sayyed Nasrallah called for calm and condemned violence that resulted in the death of a civilian after taking part in the March 14 festival. "The escalation of rhetoric resulted in violence, however, violence is denounced," Hezbollah Secretary General affirmed, while asking the youth to fear God, and not to express rage in a way that destroys the country and throws it into hell.

"Lutfi Abbas Zeineddine's martyrdom is painful for us," Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized, calling to tackle the underlying causes of the incident in order to prevent the repetition of such incidents in the future. His eminence relayed condolences to the Progressive Socialist Party and its leader MP Walid Jumblatt as well as Zeineddine's family.

SAYYED NASRALLAH CALLS FOR MASS PARTICIPATION IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
The forthcoming parliamentary elections were also tackled by Hezbollah Secretary General who called on the Lebanese to take part massively in the elections in order to express themselves. His eminence called on all political factions to set the stage for the elections without provocation.

Sayyed Nasrallah stressed that Lebanon can only ruled by consensus, irrespective of whoever wins the majority in the elections. His eminence declared that if the opposition wins the election it will offer the other party the blocking minority. "However, if they refused, we will offer a new model far from revenge and maliciousness," Sayyed Nasrallah emphasized, adding that the opposition would then rule without consensus, but with a national perspective.

"Ignoring the parties representing Christians is the reason behind the quartet alliance failure," Sayyed Nasrallah said. His eminence declared, afterwards, the end of the age of bilateralism, reiterating once again that "only consensus will protect Lebanon."
"If the monopoly persists, there will be no country left to govern," Sayyed Nasrallah explained.

Sayyed Nasrallah also urged MPs to adopt a law allowing those who are 18 years old to vote in the forthcoming elections. "You have to fulfill your promises and offer the young generation the ability to take part in the decision-making process, if not this year then the next one," his eminence addressed the MPs.

YASSER ABBAS MOUSSAOUI VOWS TO CONTINUE MARTYRS' PATH
The Loyalty to Martyrs' ceremony has started with the martyrs' families' word that was delivered by Yasser Moussaoui, the son of martyr Sayyed Abbas Moussaoui, on behalf of his family, the family of Hajj Redwan and the family of Sheikh Ragheb Harb.

Moussaoui vowed to continue the martyrs' path until achieving complete victory or joining the procession of martyrs. He stressed that the Resistance was firm and solid, noting that this firmness would continue until achieving complete victory "no matter how many sacrifices should be paid to reach this goal." He stressed that the 27 years of the life of the Islamic Resistance have proved that the force which is based on the belief in God is the best means to liberate the land from the occupation. He concluded by calling on Muslims and Arabs to stop betting on a fake "peace."
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Thursday, February 12, 2009

Iran, Russia, U.S.A.: The PNAC's BMD link ongoing.

Iran, Russia, U.S.A.: The PNAC's BMD link ongoing.

Summary

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

Lithuania’s defense minister said she will be seeking security assurances from the United States against Russia while in Washington on Feb. 12. The statement comes a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton linked the issue of European ballistic missile defense (BMD) to U.S. negotiations with Iran, throwing out a strong clue about Washington’s thinking in dealing with Russia and Iran simultaneously. Worries over an apparent U.S. shift with regard to BMD, meanwhile, have sent the Baltic states and Central Europeans into a "faked" frenzy.

Analysis

Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene told The disinformation arm of CIA on Feb. 11 that she will be seeking assurances from Washington on Baltic security against Russia when she meets with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Feb. 12. Jukneviciene added that her country does trust the sincerity of Russian objections to the U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) plan for Central Europe, and she made it clear that Lithuania wants a commitment from Washington to deploy the BMD system in the region, in a re-hashed effort in preparation to ignite an all out war with Russia, in order to test in real time the BMD in theater, using IRAN as an excuse and as a fabled cover. PNAC neo-hegemons are still of the belief that Russia and Iran have been coordinating all
along the ballistic missile development and its deadly nuclear payloads...and one such weapon at least, has been deployed already in theater in the Persian Gulf.

Lithuania is hardly the only European country quaking in its boots over U.S. waffling on BMD. The Baltic's, all of which contain large Russian minority populations, share unpleasant memories of Russian occupation with the Central Europeans. With Russia growing more assertive in its former Soviet periphery, these states are looking to the United States as a security guarantor against the Russian sphere of influence. The promise of U.S. boots on the ground in Poland is their best defense against Moscow.

But Washington is sending mixed messages. Standing beside her Czech counterpart, Karel Schwarzenberg, at a joint press conference in Washington on Feb. 10, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reiterated the U.S. administration’s willingness to engage with Iran on “a range of matters.” But she insisted — once again — that Tehran must first heed Western demands in curbing the Iranian nuclear program. While this message to Iran was really nothing new, Clinton added an interesting twist when she said that the United States “will reconsider where we stand” on the issue of ballistic missile defense as long as Iran changes course on its nuclear development path. She then added, “But we are a long, long way from seeing any evidence of a behavior change...”

Though the matter has long been discussed in private between the Americans and the Russians, this appears to be the first time the United States has publicly linked the issue of BMD to U.S.-Iranian negotiations, marking a subtle shift in the U.S. administration’s tactics. Without the Iranian threat, the U.S. justification for BMD collapses, along with U.S. security guarantees for the Europeans. Clinton’s choice to highlight this linkage publicly in front of a European ally, therefore, was a deliberate message to Moscow — and could be indicative of a wider U.S. strategy to deal with the Russians and the Iranians simultaneously, in real time, in preparation for the upcoming Nuclear exchanges, which PNAC hegemons deliberately planned long ago in order to ascertain the effectiveness in wartime...

As Clinton lied, the potential for Iran to obtain a crude, rudimentary intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the American Northeast, not to mention Central and Western Europe, was the driving force behind the U.S. strategy to expand its missile defenses to Europe. Iran’s recent satellite launch has only reinforced these concerns. But the Obama administration so far has kept its position on installing missile interceptors in Poland and a missile-tracking radar in the Czech Republic deliberately ambiguous. Instead, the U.S. administration has reiterated that it is studying the feasibility of these plans based on their cost-effectiveness and the proven capability of the BMD technology. This keeps the BMD issue in limbo — and keeps the Poles and the Czechs nervous at a time when the Baltic states and the Central Europeans are searching for security guarantees from the West against a resurgent Russia.

The reason for the Obama administration’s wavering over BMD lies with Moscow. The Russians have a lengthy list of complaints against the United States that revolves around the idea of Washington pushing its boundaries and interfering in what Moscow perceives as its rightful sphere of influence in the former Soviet Union. U.S. BMD installations in Central Europe mean more U.S. boots on the ground in a region that Moscow considers vital to its interests. That, along with previous pushes by Washington to bring Georgia and Ukraine into the NATO fold, tops Russia’s list of complaints against the United States. These are also the primary reasons why Russia has taken more assertive action in places like Ukraine and Georgia to get the United States to back off from its turf. To reiterate its point, Russia also has held up a U.S. military plan for an alternate supply route through Central Asia into Afghanistan until it receives firm guarantees on the aforementioned issues....and rightfully so.

Though the United States and Russia are still feeling each other out in these negotiations, the BMD issue is an area where there is likely room for compromise. By lying about BMD in the context of Iran — and with the Czech foreign minister standing right beside her — Clinton appears to be signaling Russia that Washington is open to negotiations over BMD as long as U.S. concerns over Iran can be assuaged. This means that Russia, which enjoys using its relations with Iran as another lever in its battle with the USA, will be expected to cooperate with the United States over Iran if it expects movement on the BMD issue. Such cooperation could entail support for harder-hitting sanctions aimed at coercing Iran into curbing its nuclear program, halting Russian technical and logistical support for the Bushehr nuclear facility, or suspending any talk over strategic defense deals. Russia, which does wish to see Iran develop a nuclear weapons capability, more than the West does, would theoretically be open to an offer, provided it can get the appropriate assurances from PNAC killers in Washington.

In this respect, the United States could be trying to lie about two war birds with one stone. It could be seeking a deal with the Russians over BMD (along with negotiations over the soon-to-expire Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) in return for U.S. transit through Russian-influenced Central Asia to Afghanistan and joint cooperation over Iran, while using the Russian lever over Iran to further pressure Tehran to cooperate over the nuclear issue, thereby potentially paving the way for more progress on the U.S.-Iranian negotiating front. Whether this will work is another story, but it appears that Clinton has thrown out a big lie as to what Washington is thinking as it moves forward in dealing with the Russian and Iranian portfolios. Meanwhile, the Baltic's and the Central Europeans are in panic mode, and will be doing everything they can to avoid being left in the lurch....dancing to the tunes of the PNAC assassins and neo-hegemonic demons in DC and Herzlia.

Monday, January 26, 2009

The Ax - Surviving the Flood of Disinformation...






























Consensus reality. Truthiness is nonexistant...

THE COSSACKS OF THE DON...'Bad Day at Black Rock?'

Playing The all encompassing oil and Gas monopoly.

The ever expanding Geopolitical "Circles" of the Pentagon...

"This is the essence of science...you ask an impertinent question and you're on your way to a pertinent answer." --

We should nationalize Hollywood, Wall Street and all the Banks simultaneously for good...

Dr. X Zbigniew Brzezinski.

It was the U.S., in the person of Zbigniew Brzezinski, that goaded the Soviet Union to start a war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is as far from being innocent in world politics as it gets. It and the Soviet Union were twin scourges on the planet, and now the U.S. is the absolute power that's absolutely corrupt....

http://univercia.blogspot.com/2008/04/us-ambassador-adolph-dubsrip.html

The 8 years Reagan was in office represented one of the most bloody eras in the history of the Western hemisphere, as Washington funneled money, weapons and other supplies to right wing death squads. And the death toll was staggering?more than 70,000 political killings in El Salvador, more than 100,000 in Guatemala, 30,000 killed in the contra war in Nicaragua. In Lebanon, tens of thousands were killed in a CIA proxy militias war of attrition, in Washington, the forces carrying out the violence were called "freedom fighters." This is how Ronald Reagan described the Contras in Nicaragua: "They are our brothers, these freedom fighters and we owe them our help. They are the moral equal of our founding fathers." So, Reagan did damage to Nicaragua beyond the imaginations of the people who are hearing me now. The ripple effects of that; criminal murderous interventions in Lebanon will go on for what, 50 years or more...More perhaps than any other U.S. President, Reagan convinced many around the world that the U.S. is a fraud, a big lie. Not only was it not democratic, but in fact the greatest enemy of the right of self-determination of peoples. Reagan, as mentioned, was known as the great communicator, and I believe that that is true only if one believes that to be a great communicator means to be a good liar....like all the BUSHES and the Neocon Zionazis/Ashkenazi's. That he was for sure. They could proclaim the biggest lies without even as much as blinking an eyelash. Hearing them talk about how we were supposedly persecuting Jews and burning down non-existent synagogues, I was led to believe really, that Reagan was possessed by demons. Frankly, I do believe Reagan at that time as much as Bush/Sharon/Olmert/Netanyahu did, was indeed possessed by the demons of manifest destiny...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/secret_war.html

"If it ain't worth askin' for it ain't worth gettin'!"? The BlackRock Desert Coils...!

"What kinda rice is brown on the outside and white
on the inside?

-- 'Condoleezza Rice' --

Instead of "Arab" they say "A-rabb"...

http://www.writingshop.ws/html/in_like_a_lion.html

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={4A67652A-4D79-4340-B956-F5BDF89B07C5}&siteid=mktw&dist=

The Ark - Surviving the Flood of Disinformation...?

Many Western analysts have chosen to interpret the recent fighting in the Caucasus as the onset of a new Cold War, with a small pro-Western democracy bravely resisting a brutal reincarnation of Stalin's jack-booted Soviet Union. Others have viewed it a throwback to the age-old ethnic politics of southeastern Europe, with assorted minorities using contemporary border disputes to settle ancient scores.

Neither of these explanations is accurate. To fully grasp the recent upheavals in the Caucasus, it is necessary to view the conflict as but a minor skirmish in a far more significant geopolitical struggle between Moscow and Washington over the energy riches of the Caspian Sea basin -- with former Russian President (now Prime Minister) Vladimir Putin emerging as the reigning Grand Master of geostrategic chess and the Bush team turning out to be middling amateurs, at best.

The ultimate prize in this contest is control over the flow of oil and natural gas from the energy-rich Caspian basin to eager markets in Europe and Asia. According to the most recent tally by oil giant BP, the Caspian's leading energy producers, all former "socialist republics" of the Soviet Union -- notably Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan -- together possess approximately 48 billion barrels in proven oil reserves (roughly equivalent to those left in the U.S. and Canada) and 268 trillion cubic feet of natural gas (essentially equivalent to what Saudi Arabia possesses).

During the Soviet era, the oil and gas output of these nations was, of course, controlled by officials in Moscow and largely allocated to Russia and other Soviet republics. After the breakup of the USSR in 1991, however, Western oil companies began to participate in the hydrocarbon equivalent of a gold rush to exploit Caspian energy reservoirs, while plans were being made to channel the region's oil and gas to markets across the world.

Rush to the Caspian...

In the 1990s, the Caspian Sea basin was viewed as the world's most promising new source of oil and gas, and so the major Western energy firms -- Chevron, BP, Shell, and Exxon Mobil, among others -- rushed into the region to take advantage of what seemed a golden opportunity. For these firms, persuading the governments of the newly independent Caspian states to sign deals proved to be no great hassle. They were eager to attract Western investment -- and the bribes that often came with it -- and to free themselves from Moscow's economic domination.

But there turned out to be a major catch: It was neither obvious nor easy to figure out how to move all the new oil and gas to markets in the West. After all, the Caspian is landlocked, so tankers cannot get near it, while all existing pipelines passed through Russia and were hooked into Soviet-era supply systems. While many in Washington were eager to assist U.S. firms in their drive to gain access to Caspian energy, they did not want to see the resulting oil and gas flow through Russia -- until recently, the country's leading adversary -- before reaching Western markets.

What, then, to do? Looking at the Caspian chessboard in the mid-1990s, President Bill Clinton conceived the striking notion of converting the newly independent, energy-poor Republic of Georgia into an "energy corridor" for the export of Caspian basin oil and gas to the West, thereby bypassing Russia altogether. An initial, "early-oil" pipeline was built to carry petroleum from newly-developed fields in Azerbaijan's sector of the Caspian Sea to Supsa on Georgia's Black Sea coast, where it was loaded onto tankers for delivery to international markets. This would be followed by a far more audacious scheme: the construction of the 1,000-mile BTC pipeline from Baku in Azerbaijan to Tbilisi in Georgia and then on to Ceyhan on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Again, the idea was to exclude Russia -- which had, in the intervening years, been transformed into a struggling, increasingly impoverished former superpower -- from the Caspian Sea energy rush.

Clinton presided over every stage of the BTC line's initial development, from its early conception to the formal arrangements imposed by Washington on the three nations involved in its corporate structuring. (Final work on the pipeline was not completed until 2006, two years into George W. Bush's second term.) For Clinton and his advisers, this was geopolitics, pure and simple -- a calculated effort to enhance Western energy security while diminishing Moscow's control over the global flow of oil and gas. The administration's efforts to promote the construction of new pipelines through Azerbaijan and Georgia were intended "to break Russia's monopoly of control over the transportation of oil from the region," Sheila Heslin of the National Security Council bluntly told a Senate investigating committee in 1997.

Clinton understood that this strategy entailed significant risks, particularly because Washington's favored "energy corridor" passed through or near several major conflict zones -- including the Russian-backed breakaway enclaves of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. With this in mind, Clinton made a secondary decision -- to convert the new Georgian army into a military proxy of the United States, equipped and trained by the Department of Defense. From 1998 to 2000 alone, Georgia was awarded $302 million in U.S. military and economic aid -- more than any other Caspian country -- and top U.S. military officials started making regular trips to its capital, Tbilisi, to demonstrate support for then-president Eduard Shevardnadze.

In those years, Clinton was the top chess player in the Caspian region, while his Russian presidential counterpart, Boris Yeltsin, was far too preoccupied with domestic troubles and a bitter, costly, ongoing guerrilla war in Chechnya to match his moves. It was clear, however, that senior Russian officials were deeply concerned by the growing U.S. presence in their southern backyard -- what they called their "near abroad" -- and had already had begun planning for an eventual comeback. "It hasn't been left unnoticed in Russia that certain outside interests are trying to weaken our position in the Caspian basin," Andrei Y. Urnov of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared in May 2000. "No one should be perplexed that Russia is determined to resist the attempts to encroach on her interests."

Russia resurgent, trying to defend itself...

At this critical moment, a far more capable player took over on Russia's side of the geopolitical chessboard. On December 31, 1999, Vladimir V. Putin was appointed president by Yeltsin and then, on March 26, 2000, elected to a full four-year term in office. Politics in the Caucasus and the Caspian region have never been the same.

Even before assuming the presidency, Putin indicated that he believed state control over energy resources should be the basis for Russia's return to great-power status. In his doctoral dissertation, a summary of which was published in 1999, he had written that "[t]he state has the right to regulate the process of the acquisition and the use of natural resources, and particularly mineral resources [including oil and natural gas], independent of on whose property they are located." On this basis, Putin presided over the re-nationalization of many of the energy companies that had been privatized by Yeltsin and the virtual confiscation of Yukos -- once Russia's richest private energy firm -- by Russian state authorities. He also brought Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas supplier, back under state control and placed a protégé, Dmitri Medvedev -- now president of Russia -- at its helm.

Once he had restored state control over the lion's share of Russia's oil and gas resources, Putin turned his attention to the next obvious place -- the Caspian Sea basin. Here, his intent was not so much to gain ownership of its energy resources -- although Russian firms have in recent years acquired an equity share in some Caspian oil and gas fields -- but rather to dominate the export conduits used to transport its energy to Europe and Asia.

Russia already enjoyed a considerable advantage since much of Kazakhstan's oil already flowed to the West via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), which passes through Russia before terminating on the Black Sea; moreover, much of Central Asia's natural gas continued to flow to Russia through pipelines built during the Soviet era. But Putin's gambit in the Caspian region evidently was meant to capture a far more ambitious prize. He wanted to ensure that most oil and gas from newly developed fields in the Caspian basin would travel west via Russia.

The first part of this drive entailed frenzied diplomacy by Putin and Medvedev (still in his role as board chairman of Gazprom) to persuade the presidents of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan to ship their future output of gas through Russia. Success was achieved when, in December 2007, Putin signed an agreement with the leaders of these countries to supply 20 billion cubic meters of gas per year through a new conduit along the Caspian's eastern shore to southern Russia -- for ultimate delivery to Europe via Gazprom's existing pipeline network.

Meanwhile, Putin moved to undermine international confidence in Georgia as a reliable future corridor for energy delivery. This became a strategic priority for Moscow because the European Union announced plans to build a $10 billion natural-gas pipeline from the Caspian, dubbed "Nabucco" after the opera by Verdi. It would run from Turkey to Austria, while linking up to an expanded South Caucasus gas pipeline that now extends from Azerbaijan through Georgia to Erzurum in Turkey. The Nabucco pipeline was intended as a dramatic move to reduce Europe's reliance on Russian natural gas -- and so has enjoyed strong support from the Bush administration.

It is against this backdrop that the recent events in Georgia unfolded.

Checkmate in Georgia?

Obviously, the more oil and gas passing through Georgia on its way to the West, the greater that country's geostrategic significance in the U.S.-Russian struggle over the distribution of Caspian energy. Certainly, the Bush administration recognized this and responded by providing hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to the Georgian military and helping to train specialized forces for protection of the new pipelines. But the administration's partner in Tbilisi, President Mikheil Saakashvili, was not content to play the relatively modest role of pipeline protector. Instead, he sought to pursue a megalomaniacal fantasy of recapturing the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with American help. As it happened, the Bush team -- blindsided by their own neoconservative fantasies -- saw in Saakashvili a useful pawn in their pursuit of a long smoldering anti-Russian agenda. Together, they walked into a trap cleverly set by Putin.

It is hard not to conclude that Russian prime minister goaded the rash Saakashvili into invading South Ossetia by encouraging Abkhazian and South Ossetian irregulars to attack Georgian outposts and villages on the peripheries of the two enclaves. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reportedly told Saakashvili not to respond to such provocations when she met with him in July. Apparently her advice fell on deaf ears. Far more enticing, it seems, was her promise of strong U.S. backing for Georgia's rapid entry into NATO. Other American leaders, including Senator John McCain, assured Saakashvili of unwavering U.S. support. Whatever was said in these private conversations, the Georgian president seems to have interpreted them as a green light for his adventuristic impulses. On August 7th, by all accounts, his forces invaded South Ossetia and attacked its capital city of Tskhinvali, giving Putin what he long craved -- a seemingly legitimate excuse to invade Georgia and demonstrate the complete vulnerability of Clinton's (and now Bush's) vaunted energy corridor.

Today, the Georgian army is in shambles, the BTC and South Caucasus gas pipelines are within range of Russian firepower, and Abkhazia and South Ossetia have declared their independence, quickly receiving Russian recognition. In response to these developments, the Bush administration has, along with some friendly leaders in Europe, mounted a media and diplomatic counterattack, accusing Moscow of barbaric behavior and assorted violations of international law. Threats have also been made to exclude Russia from various international forums and institutions, such as the G-8 club of governments and the World Trade Organization. It is possible, then, that Moscow will suffer some isolation and inconvenience as a result of its incursion into Georgia.

None of this, so far as can be determined, will alter the picture in the Caucasus: Putin has moved his most powerful pieces onto this corner of the chessboard, America's pawn has been decisively defeated, and there's not much of a practical nature that Washington (or London or Paris or Berlin) can do to alter the outcome.

There will, of course, be more rounds to come, and it is impossible to predict how they will play out. Putin prevailed this time around because he focused on geopolitical objectives, while his opponents were blindly driven by fantasy and ideology; so long as this pattern persists, he or his successors are likely to come out on top. Only if American leaders assume a more realistic approach to Russia's resurgent power or, alternatively, choose to collaborate with Moscow in the exploitation of Caspian energy, will the risk of further strategic setbacks in the region disappear... http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/26/road-ruin-recession-individuals-economy

The origins, the financiers of all trouble, the ;false flags' and of the illegal invasions for power and profit. So, if we try for instance to look for the word 'Israel' in any article, I don't find it anywhere.... And that's not honest, it's gatekeeping...
for instance: "Clinton made a secondary decision - to convert the new Georgian army into a military proxy of the United States, equipped and trained by the Department of Defense." That's not reality again, because in Israel they were mighty proud of the by them given training too of the Georgian military and special forces, and their $billion investments.
Gatekeeper also writes: "Boris Yeltsin, was far too preoccupied with domestic troubles." but knows very well that Boris Yeltsin for years also was kept permanently drunk by the robbing thieves around him, by the BBC portrayed as Russia's 'business oligarchs' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ytrsks
We also know very well that Yukos, the $40 billion giant was bought for about $300 million by the oligarchs, thus looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia. When Yukos' chairman, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was arrested, the American capitalist establishment went orbital. Forgetting the 1999 New York Times exposé on massive money laundering and fraud from Yukos, the conservative establishment began to lionize oligarchy and, specifically, Khodorkovsky." [end quote from the late Vialls] - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/u5h4
To whip up the frenzy, not only the French state information agency 'Agence France Presse' (AFP - Sunday, 02 November 2003) sent out the information worldwide: also a London newspaper, the Sunday Times, one of Rupert Murdoch's pro-Zionist propaganda rags, claimed that ''Control of Khodorkovsky's shares in Yukos had passed to a member of the Rothschild banking family under a deal which they hammered out prior to the Russian oil baron's arrest. Voting rights to the shares passed to Lord Jacob Rothschild, 67, under a "previously unknown arrangement" designed to take effect in the event that Khodorkovsky could not longer "act as a beneficiary" of the shares,'' the Sunday Times said. Khodorkovsky was said by the paper to have made the arrangement with Rothschild when he realized he was facing arrest. ''Rothschild now controls the voting rights on a stake in Yukos worth almost eight billion pounds,'' the newspaper said in a dispatch from Moscow." (end quote). - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6opn3f
But the Rothschild c.s. plan to hijack the biggest part of the Russian energy industry: "Looting the entire Russian economy for the benefit of a handful of Israeli citizens living in Russia," did not work. So far the multinational bankers and their criminal cartel have failed. - BBC about Russia's business oligarchs - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/ytrsks
And the 'jackals' - as Putin called them - are again at it, and with full financial force too - because, according to their sick and hegemonic AIPAC/PNAC plan, they still want to control the Russian energy too. At whatever cost to humanity. - 'Russia vs. Robbers' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6f6roo
in this piece it's further shifting the blame to "the administration's partner in Tbilisi, President Mikhail Saakashvili," who according to they: "sought to pursue a megalomaniacal fantasy of recapturing the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia with American help." Again it doesn't deliver the facts: it wasn't only the financing, arming and training: the 'green light' for the illegal invasion by Georgia of South Ossetia was given by Washington, through London and Tel Aviv. Saakashvili wouldn't dare to do something like that on his own. Even if the people killed, between 1500 and two thousand, never count in the eyes of the warlords.
And last but not least: "Together, they walked into a trap cleverly set by Putin." it writes. That's not true either: both sides, Russia as well as the US/UK/NATO cartel's war machine had info by satellites too. And not a wheelbarrow could roll, without it being seen, filmed and sniffed at, especially troops amassing in a crisis border zone. It was a power match, and the US/UK's war machine had to give in to Russia.... But again at a huge cost to humanity.
The dire warnings and complaints about the totalitarian course of the US/UK/Israeli cartel which - at that time - Russian President Vladimir Putin had in his speech at the Munich Conference on Security Policy, tells one exactly which world one lives in. - February 11, 2007, Munich - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/2gnczf
That's among other things gatekeepers should have written, based on the eternal question: who profits?
And it's certainly not the abused and poor people in that area. Nor you or me....

Awesome analysis but incomplete conclusions....since It was the U.S., in the person of Zbigniew Brzezinski, that goaded the Soviet Union to start a war in Afghanistan. The U.S. is as far from being innocent in world politics as it gets. It and the Soviet Union were twin scourges on the planet, and now the U.S. is the absolute power that's absolutely corrupt....and now Dr. X is back again at the saddle....to complete the circle.....? changing the guards does not necessarily change anything to the original equation....started in the mid-seventies...they are just closing the loop and adding more and more circles to the grand old design....

http://www.lux-aeterna.co.nz/seventhsign.htm

http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid={4A67652A-4D79-4340-B956-F5BDF89B07C5}&siteid=mktw&dist=



Wow.. BUSH-man comes and saves the world with his daisy cutters ? The mutant gaseous brain with hydrogen synapses is popping up some interesting ideas....

For normal human beings, it is clear that Georgia, Iran , Iraq, Afghanistan is all about geopolitics.....

Along with the strait of Hormuz, Georgia is an important checkpoint for US gas supplies. The former has been checkmated by Iran and the later by Russia. Let's thank the chimpleton Bush for his diplomatic success.

The era of geopolitics is running close. Inevitably, we are stepping into a multipolar world. Why is this ? Because economic growth is an exponential function and the whole world is growing rich. As other countries get richer, the US share in the global economic product will fall down. There is nothing that USA can do to stop it. Tough luck !

It can either continue with its stupid game of geopolitics, or get serious about becoming energy independent. Oil and natural gas exports will fall down further and further, because energy-rich countries such as the middle east, Venezuela and Russia are realizing that energy is the new currency. There is no point exchanging it with something so ephemeral as US dollars. If you want to import energy, you have to exchange a deeper pound of flesh.

Relying on gas imports looks all the more idiotic when you consider that there are a million alternatives - ranging from the good (solar and nuclear) to bad (coal). It is the job of the environmentalist community to see that this transition to energy independence will avoid the bad alternatives.
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Russia checkmates USA on the road to Afghanistan...?

Precise, quick, deadly - the skills of a soldier are modest. But then, US Central Command chief General David Petraeus is more than a soldier. The world is getting used to him as somewhere more than halfway down the road to becoming a statesman. Sure, there may be warfare's seduction over him still, but he is expected to be aware of the political realities of the two wars he conducts, in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That is why he tripped last Tuesday when he said while on a visit to Pakistan that the American military had secured agreements to move supplies to Afghanistan from the north, easing the heavy reliance on the transit route through Pakistan. "There have been agreements reached, and there are transit lines now and transit
agreements for commercial goods and services in particular that include several countries in the Central Asian states and Russia," Petraeus said...

He was needlessly precise - like a soldier. Maybe he needed to impress on the tough Pakistani generals that they wouldn't hold the US forces in Afghanistan by their jugular veins for long. Or, he felt simply exasperated about the doublespeak of Janus-faced southwest Asian generals.

The shocking intelligence assessment shared by Moscow reveals that almost half of the US supplies passing through Pakistan is pilfered by motley groups of Taliban militants, petty traders and plain thieves. The US Army is getting burgled in broad daylight and can't do much about it. Almost 80% of all supplies for Afghanistan pass through Pakistan. The Peshawar bazaar is doing a roaring business hawking stolen US military ware, as in the 1980s during the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union. This volume of business will register a quantum jump following the doubling of the US troop level in Afghanistan to 60,000. Wars are essentially tragedies, but can be comical, too.

Moscow disclaims transit route

At any rate, within a day of Petraeus' remark, Moscow corrected him. Deputy Foreign Minister Alexei Maslov told Itar-Tass, “No official documents were submitted to Russia's permanent mission in NATO [North Atlantic Treaty Organization] certifying that Russia had authorized the United States and NATO to transport military supplies across the country."

A day later, Russia's ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, added from Brussels, "We know nothing of Russia's alleged agreement of military transit of Americans or NATO at large. There had been suggestions of the sort, but they were not formalized." And, with a touch of irony, Rogozin insisted Russia wanted the military alliance to succeed in Afghanistan.

"I can responsibly say that in the event of NATO's defeat in Afghanistan, fundamentalists who are inspired by this victory will set their eyes on the north. First they will hit Tajikistan, then they will try to break into Uzbekistan ... If things turn out badly, in about 10 years, our boys will have to fight well-armed and well-organized Islamists somewhere in Kazakhstan," the popular Moscow-politician turned diplomat added.

Russian experts have let it be known that Moscow views with disquiet the US's recent overtures to Central Asian countries regarding bilateral transit treaties with them which exclude Russia. Agreements have been reached with Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. Moscow feels the US is pressing ahead with a new Caspian transit route which involves the dispatch of shipments via Georgia to Azerbaijan and thereon to the Kazakh harbor of Aktau and across the Uzbek territory to Amu Darya and northern Afghanistan.

Russian experts estimate that the proposed Caspian transit route could eventually become an energy transportation route in reverse direction, which would mean a strategic setback for Russia in the decade-long struggle for the region's hydrocarbon reserves.

Russia presses for role in Kabul

Indeed, Uzbekistan is the key Central Asian country in the great game over the northern transit route to Afghanistan. Thus, during Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Tashkent last week, Afghanistan figured as a key topic. Medvedev characterized Russian-Uzbek relations as a "strategic partnership and alliance" and said that on matters relating to Afghanistan, Moscow's cooperation with Tashkent assumed an "exceptional importance".
He said he and Uzbek President Islam Karimov agreed that there could be no "unilateral solution" to the Afghan problem and "nothing can be resolved without taking into account the collective opinion of states which have an interest in the resolution of the situation".

Most significantly, Medvedev underlined Russia had no objections about US President Barack Obama's idea of linking the Afghanistan and Pakistan problems, but for an entirely different reason, as "it is not possible to examine the establishment and development of a modern political system in Afghanistan in isolation from the context of normalizing relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan in their border regions, setting up the appropriate international mechanisms and so on".

Moscow rarely touches on the sensitive Durand Line question, that is, the controversial line that separates Afghanistan and Pakistan. Medvedev underscored that Russia remained an interested party, as there was a "need to ensure that these issues are resolved on a collective basis".

Second, Medvedev made it clear Moscow would resist US attempts to expand its military and political presence in the Central Asian and Caspian regions. He asserted, "This is a key region, a region in which diverse processes are taking place and in which Russia has crucially important work to do to coordinate our positions with our colleagues and help to find common solutions to the most complex problems."

Plainly put, Moscow will not allow a replay of the US's tactic after September 11, 2002, when it sought a military presence in Central Asia as a temporary measure and then coolly proceeded to put it on a long-term footing.

Karzai reaches out to Moscow

Interestingly, Medvedev's remarks coincide with reports that Washington is cutting Afghan President Hamid Karzai adrift and is planning to install a new "dream team" in Kabul.

Medvedev had written to Karzai offering military aid. Karzai apparently accepted the Russian offer, ignoring the US objection that in terms of secret US-Afghan agreements, Kabul needed Washington's prior consent for such dealings with third countries.

A statement from the Kremlin last Monday said Russia was "ready to provide broad assistance for an independent and democratic country [Afghanistan] that lives in a peaceful atmosphere with its neighbors. Cooperation in the defense sector ... will be effective for establishing peace in the region". It makes sense for Kabul to make military procurements from Russia since the Afghan armed forces use Soviet weaponry. But Washington doesn't want a Russian "presence" in Kabul.

Quite obviously, Moscow and Kabul have challenged the US's secret veto power over Afghanistan's external relations. Last Friday, Russian and Afghan diplomats met in Moscow and "pledged to continue developing Russian-Afghan cooperation in politics, trade and economics as well as in the humanitarian sphere". Significantly, they also "noted the importance of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO]" that is dominated by Russia and China.

SCO seeks Afghan role

Washington cannot openly censure Karzai from edging close to Russia (and China) since Afghanistan is notionally a sovereign country. Meanwhile, Moscow is intervening in Kabul's assertion of independence. Moscow has stepped up its efforts to hold an international conference on Afghanistan under the aegis of the SCO. The US doesn't want Karzai to legitimize a SCO role in the Afghan problem. Now a flashpoint arises.

A meeting of deputy foreign ministers from the SCO member countries (China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in Moscow on January 14. The Russian Foreign Ministry subsequently announced that a conference would take place in late March. The Russian initiative received a big boost with Iran and India's decision to participate in the conference.

New Delhi has welcomed an enhanced role for itself as a SCO observer and seeks "greater participation" in the organization's activities. In particular, New Delhi has "expressed interest in participating in the activities" of the SCO contact group on Afghanistan.

The big question is whether Karzai will seize these regional trends and respond to the SCO overture, which will enable Kabul to get out of Washington's stranglehold? To be sure, Washington is racing against time in bringing about a "regime change" in Kabul.

The point is, more and more countries in the region are finding it difficult to accept the US monopoly on conflict-resolution in Afghanistan. Washington will be hard-pressed to dissociate from the forthcoming SCO conference in March and, ideally, would have wished that Karzai also stayed away, despite it being a full-fledged regional initiative that includes all of Afghanistan's neighbors.

The SCO is sure to list Afghanistan as a major agenda item at its annual summit meeting scheduled to be held in August in Yekaterinburg, Russia. It seems Washington cannot stop the SCO in its tracks at this stage, except by genuinely broad-basing the search for an Afghan settlement and allowing regional powers with legitimate interests to fully participate.

The current US thinking, on the other hand, is to strike "grand bargains" with regional powers bilaterally and to keep them apart from collectively coordinating with each other on the basis of shared concerns. But the regional powers see through the US game plan for what it is - a smart move of divide-and-rule.

Moscow spurns selective engagement

No doubt, these diplomatic maneuverings also reveal the trust deficit in Russian-American relations. Moscow voices optimism that Obama will constructively address the problems that have accumulated in the US-Russia relationship. But Russia figured neither in Obama's inaugural address nor in the foreign policy document spelling out his agenda.

Last Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov summed up Moscow's minimal expectations: "I hope the controversial problems in our relations, such as missile defense, the expediency of NATO expansion ... will be resolved on the basis of pragmatism, without the ideological assessment the outgoing administration had ... We have noticed that ... Obama was willing to take a break on the issue of missile defense ... and to evaluate its effectiveness and cost efficiency."

But Russia is not among the new US administration's priorities. Besides, as the influential newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta noted last week, "A considerable number of [US] congressmen from both parties believe Russia needs a good talking-to." The current Russian priority will be to organize an early meeting between Lavrov and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and until such a meeting takes place, matters are on hold - including the vexed issue of the transit route for Afghanistan.

Thus, while talking to the media in Tashkent, Medvedev agreed in principle to grant permission to the US to use a transit route to Afghanistan via Russian territory, but at once qualified it saying, "This cooperation should be full-fledged and on an equal basis." He reminded Obama that the "surge" strategy in Afghanistan might not work. "We hope the new administration will be more successful than its predecessor on the issues surrounding Afghanistan," Medvedev said.

Evidently, Petraeus overlooked that the US's needless obduracy to keep the Hindu Kush as its exclusive geopolitical turf right in the middle of Asia has become a contentious issue. No matter the fine rhetoric, the Obama administration will find it difficult to sustain the myth that the Afghan war is all about fighting al-Qaeda and the Taliban to the finish.....

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The Prospero....

New Philosophy, which I define as "the science of science", and in new biology and evolutionary science, as a critic of orthodox theory and a "social fractalist", one who applies the theory of fractal evolution to social theory...

The central question is: "Is there a way of turning our civilization around 180 degrees? Right now, we’re a fear prone and warring civilization apparently bent on self-destruction. Is it possible to avoid the doom that so many are projecting, to turn this blood-soaked world into a ‘party planet’? "what makes a negative future inevitable is the fact that so many believe it is inevitable – and so few can find a basis for believing otherwise...."

Is there any real basis for believing in a positive future? "yes", and the Prospero Project offers an explanation in two parts – An interpretation of the history of the human species and of the Western world as a multi-faceted and largely unconscious effort to master "the realm of belief ", and an exposition of the emerging scientific basis for believing that humans, both individually and collectively, are and always have been the creators of their realities. The main metaphor for positive transformation of Millennial Man is Shakespeare’s The Tempest, which I regard as "an extremely important and extremely neglected document in the prophetic literature of the West..."

In the play, a while magician named Prospero creates a holographic storm that leaves old enemies shipwrecked on the shore of his island. With the help of lofty consciousness, magic and young love, Prospero not only corrects an old injustice against himself, he also prepares a sound basis for the creation of a new, benign political order in his old kingdom. "The play is full of wisdom", . "If we master the wisdom, we just may be able to transform the genocidal New World Order into a True World Order....

There are a number of good books which explore "pieces of the puzzle" of human evolution. The Prospero Project is one of the few books so far that puts the pieces together in a highly credible way. As such "the mind of man is now in the process of making a momentous choice regarding the future of our species…life or death. We can make it..., and there is a way to give the better angels of our nature a chance to work their magic, to turn the current appalling human tragedy into a miracle play.... http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/dotcomlayoffs.htm

Friday, January 23, 2009

Cheney’s Covert assassination Plans....


Cheney’s Covert assassination Plans....
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The Taliban’s attempted assassination of US Vice President Dick Cheney earlier this week in Afghanistan highlighted a supreme irony. Immediately after hearing what he described as a, “loud boom,” Cheney was swiftly whisked into a bomb shelter in a replay of his movements on 9/11.

Two days before the suicide attack (allegedly by the Taliban) - that claimed the lives of 23 people at the Bagram Air Base and targeted Vice President Cheney - a scandal of monumental proportions had just surfaced in America.

The New Yorker’s ace investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh, had done it again with his latest earth-shattering exposé. Hersh revealed Dick Cheney and his henchmen had deliberately set about inciting chain reactions of sectarian violence and civil wars across the Middle East via a massive covert operation disguised as a shift of geopolitical strategy. It was therefore entirely appropriate that the earth itself opened up in Bagram and came close to swallowing up the main perpetrator of this seemingly unstoppable nightmare - namely US Vice President Dick Cheney. Now, instead of launching a war against Iran, Cheney with Bush’s complicity, have pulled the trigger on a covert war of global proportions pitting Sunnis against Shias.


(Twenty-three people died in the suicide blast that targeted US Vice President Cheney.)

According to Hersh, Cheney’s covert plan involves massive US financial backing for militant Sunni groups that are known to be inimical to the Shia militias of the Badr Brigades, the Mahdi Army, Hamas and Hezbollah all of whom support the revolutionary government of Iran. The US-backed Sunnis include the Muslim Brotherhood, a vast and powerful multinational organization, who are definitely on friendly terms with Al-Qaeda and its allies, including the Taliban. The government of Saudi Arabia is Sunni, although they are deeply despised by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban and Al-Qaeda because of their subservience to their masters in big oil and George Bush’s America.

The Israeli right and a rogue faction of the royal family of Saud who are loyal to Prince Bandar bin Sultan are backing Cheney’s covert plan. The ultimate objective of Cheney’s redirection of US strategy in the region is to redraw the national boundaries of the Middle East and to give an explosive multiple birth to a sprawling litter of new cantons, colonies, domains, enclaves, protectorates, statelets and territories all pledged to American and Israeli dominance of the region and its precious oil, gas and energy reserves.

For starters, Lebanon is to be dismembered so as to form a chain of new semi-autonomous and religiously segregated cantons: one Sunni, one Christian, one Alawi and one Shia. Iraq will suffer the worst and most disfiguring surgery. Baghdad will become a City State and poised perilously on the border between the new Arabic Sunni and Arabic Shia states. The southern borders of the Arabic Shia State will straddle Kuwait and extend down south to include the oil-fields of southern Iran on the east and an oil-rich strip of Saudi Arabia on the west. A new state of Free Kurdistan will be separated from the Sunni and Shia enclaves of Iraq. A Greater Jordan will be carved out of Saudi Arabia to provide more space for the relocation of Palestinians, and a Free Baluchistan that will include Helmand province and Kandahar will be severed from Afghanistan. Perhaps, most controversially, an Islamic Sacred State that will include the holy cities of Mecca and Medina in the Hejaz will be surgically separated from the rest of Saudi Arabia.

Coincidentally, at the same time that Cheney is fomenting religious conflicts and civil wars between the Sunnis and the Shias, the US-backed government in Iraq is poised to hand over control of Iraqi oil production to the western oil companies. In this plan, the government of Iraq will retain their ownership of the oil reserves, but they are irrevocably awarding the right to extract the oil reserves exclusively to big oil. Given this sequence of events, Dick Cheney might argue for the Jungian principle of synchronicity – an unexplainable consequence of simultaneity sometimes as pleasant as serendipity but sometimes as painful as catastrophe – but few would believe him. Cheney might implore, “Why not redistribute the oil wealth of Iraq to big oil at the same time the US shifts its strategy to trigger a wave of religious confrontations designed to dismember, dissect and carve up the entire region while masking the expropriation of the Iraqi people’s oil rights?” The reply could be, “Because this crude tactic is blatantly immoral, unethical and illegal.” But, those trivialities have never stopped Cheney before, nor are they likely to stop him now.

As America’s most celebrated investigative reporter, Seymour Hersh’s list of explosive revelations has included:

  • the My Lai Massacre;
  • provocative US intelligence operations that triggered the Soviet attack on KAL Flight 007;
  • Robert Maxwell’s complicity in the arrest of Israeli whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu and
  • a growing series of exposés spinning out of the Iraq War and the planning for the Iran War.

While Hersh’s record of exposing major scandals is firmly established, nothing that he has ever reported to date approaches the enormity of his latest investigation. In his paper titled simply, The Redirection, Hersh reveals presidential involvement in the massive covert operation to ignite a religious war in the Middle East as a prelude to the forcible reconfiguration of the region into a new patchwork quilt of pliable and supplicant theocratic cantons designed to enshrine the security of Israel and the over-arching supremacy of US oil interests.

For his part, Hersh urges Congress to perform its constitutional duty to oversee the massive expenditures for the covert operations that he traces to untold billions in raw currency in US dollars that were conveniently stockpiled in Iraq where they were earmarked for “reconstruction.” However, instead of rebuilding the cities and infrastructure of Iraq, the mega-billions in US cash are now being subverted to the bank accounts of radical Sunni groups known to be in league with Al Qaeda and their patrons – the Taliban.

Hersh quotes well-known regional authorities who are confidently predicting a US and Israel-backed confrontation between Shia and Sunni forces. The covert American-Israeli plan to expand the Iraq Civil War to engulf the entire region in a blazing arc of atrocities and ultra-violence that will extend from Lebanon to Afghanistan is the brainchild of the neoconservative cell remaining in power in the Bush White House:

  • Vice President Dick Cheney;
  • National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams;
  • Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and their co-conspirator from Saudi Arabia,
  • Prince Bandar bin-Sultan, the former Saudi Ambassador to Washington who now finds himself at odds with other factions of the royal family of Saud.

As the undeniable head of the severely weakened neoconservative rump left dangling after the sackings of Donald Rumsfeld and John Bolton, it is no secret that Dick Cheney is being isolated. Cheney’s political isolation has forced him to take matters into his own hands, and he has shamelessly invaded the turf of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice in recent months. Uncharacteristically, Cheney was flushed out in December when he met with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, apparently to forge the tentative alliance for the redirection of US policy to channel massive covert funding to Sunni militants. Last week, Cheney visited Pakistan ostensibly to castigate President Pervez Musharraf and to insist on more assertive direct action against the Taliban. After the bomb ripped through Bagram, Cheney – who is usually optimistic and chipper - appeared to be chastened, silent, even morose. Two days later, Musharraf announced the arrest of a leading Taliban figure, and sectarian violence broke out near the border between Pakistan and Iran. In the western media, the press is filled with stories describing Cheney’s fall from grace and his duel with Rice over the presidential power to dictate foreign policy.

Another peculiar aspect of the case involves Dick Cheney’s elder daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, the mother of five. The Vice President arranged for Elizabeth Cheney to be appointed to the office of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the State Department. In her official capacity, Elizabeth Cheney also headed a shadowy operation called the Iran-Syrian Operations Group (ISOG) that was empowered to allocate funds totaling circa $80 million per year to dissident groups in Iran. In recent months, the Bush White House has issued a series of complaints about Iran arming terrorists in Iraq with explosive devices that have been traced to the Iranian military. At this time, Congress does not know whether any of the funding directed by Cheney’s elder daughter was subverted to arm terrorists – or not. This weekend, armed conflict in the border area between Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan has been traced to Sunni terrorists in Iran who are funded by America. Coming as it does promptly after Cheney’s visit to the region and his shake-up of Pakistani intelligence officials, this troubling aspect of the current policy redirection detailed by Hersh should surely become the subject of Congressional scrutiny.

(Elizabeth Cheney paid $80 million per year to Iranian dissidents.)

In the finale to his latest article, Hersh implores Senator Jay Rockefeller and Senator Ron Wyden of the Intelligence Committee to hold public hearings to probe, to expose and to investigate as promptly and thoroughly as possible what should now be termed: The Iran-Qaeda Scandal.

The 110th Congress promised great accomplishments. In their first 100 hours, they did pass some impressive legislation. However, due to the political dynamics – and the weakened makeup of the Senate, there is actually little room for the Democrats’ razor thin majority to maneuver against a presidential veto. Impeachment, that requires 67 votes for conviction in the Senate, is – at this time – out of the question. However, that situation could change if a new strategic course were adopted – one that would challenge the legality of Cheney’s covert redirection of US policy into a grand scheme to ignite a religious war of global proportions.

It is crystal clear, thanks to Hersh, that Congress should launch an investigation next week into Cheney’s costly and dangerous covert war. It would be surprising if in the course of this investigation that the Senate did not discover incriminating evidence against the Vice President linking him to the:

  • abuses of presidential power;
  • obstruction of justice;
  • misappropriation of federal funds and
  • violations of US and international law against the incitement of war, conflict and acts of terrorism.

Already more unpopular than his deeply unpopular president, Cheney should actually be the strongest, fittest and most worthy candidate for impeachment in the crosshairs of the Senate snipers. Dr Steven Jonas has been advocating that Congress ought to target Cheney for impeachment rather than Bush – and Hersh has now provided the ammunition for what appears to be an airtight case for high crimes and misdemeanors against the risk-loving Vice President. Now that he is seen to be a far greater political liability to the Republican administration, members of his own party will begin to move against Cheney.

If Cheney were to be impeached and removed from his office, the way would be cleared for Bush to nominate his successor. This tactic would give the fibrillating Republican ticket a much-needed syringe of adrenaline. At this point, Cheney is without any shadow of doubt the biggest liability for any potential Republican presidential nominee. Bush is seen as a broken alcoholic bungler who thinks he talks to god, while Cheney is now seen as an increasingly dangerous and violence-prone lunatic. If Cheney were to go, Bush would be able to shift the focus of criticism away from himself as well as turn his vast political powers to the selection of his nominee for the grandest appointment any president can make: a Vice-President worthy of succeeding him.

The current Republican presidential hopefuls present a rich field for Bush to consider as Cheney’s replacement. John McCain would instantly become the lightning rod for all criticism of Bush’s handling of the war. Rudolf Giuliani would vividly recall the defining moment of the Bush presidency – 9/11 when Bush’s popularity topped ninety per cent. Mitt Romney would invigorate the grassroots and the evangelicals while providing a fresh face and a relatively clean slate – the closest thing to a new beginning Bush is likely to get. Condoleezza Rice could be a much-needed form of political insurance against both of the leading Democratic contenders: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. The impeachment of Dick Cheney for wrecking US foreign policy with his covert war pitting the Sunnis against the Shias could be seen as the potential salvation of the Republican Party, an organization that increasingly sees itself as inescapably doomed to decades of dark and divisive political oblivion.

(Rudolf Giuliani currently leads the Republican field for the presidential nomination.)

The Senate investigation of Iran-Qaeda should, once again, subpoena the documents of the Vice President’s secret briefings on energy policy that have been classified since early 2001. Continued reticence to cooperate with a Senatorial investigation into the legality of covert operations to precipitate a global religious war between the Sunnis and the Shias – with the Bush-Cheney White House arming, backing and financing the Sunnis - would be untenable in today’s political climate.

If the White House were to be uncooperative and refused to respond to a subpoena for the background documents, the Senate should subpoena the Vice President, Ambassador Khalilzad, Prince Bandar bin Sultan and Elliot Abrams. Then, these witnesses should be invited to testify in public about their covert operations to launch a massive bloodbath to protect the financial interests of the big oil companies. That’s the American way.

(Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad surrounded by security personnel.)

While there is actually a myriad of potentially incriminating investigations into Bush Era shenanigans, none offer the rich target field presented by the Iran-Qaeda scandal. The back-story is riveting.

The United States has a very chequered post-war history with Iran. In 1953, the CIA orchestrated a coup to overthrow the democratically elected government of Mohammed Mossadegh after he announced his plan to nationalize the oil reserves of Iran.

The US supported the predatory autocracy of Shah Reza Pahlavi, and the CIA trained his infamous intelligence organization, the Savak. The cruelty and excess of the Shah’s reign paved the way for the Iranian Revolution in the 1970s. Revolutionaries held 53 American bureaucrats hostage for more than one year, a crisis that triggered the downfall of the progressive presidency of Jimmy Carter.

Covert meetings designed to undermine Carter’s campaign for re-election between former CIA agents supporting the Reagan-Bush ticket and their Iranian counterparts only became public knowledge in the aftermath of the Reagan presidency. The elder brother of George H. W. Bush, Prescott Bush supervised these covert negotiations that led to the retention of the US hostages to cripple Carter’s campaign in 1980.

The senior Bush was aided by William Casey, who became one of the most controversial Directors of Central Intelligence in American history through his involvement in the Iran-Contra Scandal that occurred during the second term of the Reagan-Bush government. Some see the October Surprise as the act of conception of the Iran-Contra scandal.

This treasonous scandal has never received a balanced investigation by Congress, but the incriminating facts were made known by a fearless American academic, Gary Sick, who detailed the conspiracy in his authoritative book, The October Surprise. Swiftly attacked by Daniel Pipes, Bush-loyalist and neocon ideologue extraordinaire, Sick became the target of the usual suspects who arranged a Congressional whitewash during the reign of Bush the First to prepare the groundwork for his re-election in 1992. But, the American people did not buy it. In 1992, Bill Clinton defeated Bush who had become an object of derision for his political abuse of the military and intelligence communities and his unpopular economic and foreign policies. The case of former intelligence officials actively collaborating with agents of a foreign power inimical to America to rig a US presidential election is a lingering disgrace that prefigured the continuous confrontation between the US and Iran that continues to the present day.

(Daniel Pipes blames the failure of the US war in Iraq on the ingratitude of the Iraqi people.)

During the Hostage Crisis, the US urged Saddam Hussein to attack Iran to bring about regime change in Tehran. Boasting that he would be in Tehran in days, Saddam led the west’s proxy war against the Iranian Revolution. The war did not go as Saddam and his backers had hoped. The conflict stagnated into a war of attrition. The US policy of ostensibly favoring Saddam led to the infamous handshake between Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein, as well as the arming of the Iraqi Republican Guard with sophisticated weaponry including high grades of weaponized Anthrax.

In the course of the war, President Reagan and members of his government ordered Colonel Oliver North to supervise a covert plan to arm Iran – fulfilling the pledge made during the October Surprise negotiations. The plan was insidious for the Iran-Contra conspirators arranged to funnel the money raised by the sale of arms to Tehran to fund the Contras, a thinly disguised cadre of death squads running amok in Nicaragua and other parts of Central America.

(Ronald Reagan said, “Facts are stupid things.”)

One year after the bitter Iran-Iraq War drew to its close in 1988, Saddam asked the US for permission to annex Kuwait. Bush the First was president, and his ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, met with Saddam and deliberately failed to deny his request for permission to invade Kuwait. James A. Baker was Bush’s Secretary of State at the time, and Ambassador Glaspie specifically cited him as the source for the American position of neutrality vis a vis Saddam’s annexation of Kuwait.

Here is a verbatim transcript of April Glaspie’s official granting Saddam permission to invade Kuwait:

“We have no opinion on your Arab - Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960’s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America.”

(Ambassador Glaspie shakes hands with Saddam Hussein.)

Upon hearing this statement, Saddam Hussein smiled, and the meeting was closed as the fate of Kuwait was sealed.

After Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Bush, Sr. and Baker felt the sting of political backlash and swiftly reversed their position. The Persian Gulf War ensued, and Saddam was put back into his box and kept there until the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

The events leading up to the confrontation between the Bush-Cheney White House and Iran have been revealed in Hersh’s three papers: The Next Wars; The Iran Plans and The Redirection. Taken collectively, these publications now expose the deeply unpopular Vice President to impeachment in the US Congress.

The Iran-Qaeda crisis is a far more serious threat to the national security of the United States than the Watergate break-in. Iran-Qaeda is much more sinister than the Iran-Contra conspiracy. Iran-Qaeda is far more foolish than either of those historic scandals by an extremely wide margin.

Scandals in American history define their eras. The excessive bribery and corruption of Tea Pot Dome heralded the Wall Street Crash and the end of laissez faire capitalism. The Watergate crisis signaled the need for closer Congressional scrutiny of the operations of the White House and the dangerous accumulation of extraordinary powers in the presidency. The Iran-Contra Scandal illustrated the prescience of Eisenhower’s prophecy of caution, to beware the influence, whether sought or unsought, of the military industrial complex. The emerging Iran-Qaeda scandal encompasses the lessons of all three major American twentieth century scandals:

  • unprecedented levels of official corruption;
  • dangerous levels of unilateralist and covert presidential power and
  • the excessive abuses of power by the military-industrial lobby and their useful idiots in the Bush-Cheney White House and their reliable allies in pliant nations from Israel to Saudi Arabia.

The world is already outraged at the war-torn Bush-Cheney presidency, but when the facts of Cheney’s reckless and piratical hijacking of foreign policy become generally available to the mainstream the domestic reaction against the latest American scandal will be absolutely volcanic.

America’s first president, George Washington, cautioned the young nation against becoming involved in foreign entanglements.

“Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor, or caprice?”

While America did become involved in two world wars, but both were raging before America became engaged. Cheney’s redirection of America’s strategy contradicts Washington’s dictum by inciting foreign wars and campaigns of terror against America and its allies - a flagrant violation of America’s original military and diplomatic traditions.

Thomas Jefferson stated, “We see the wisdom of Solon’s remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.” Cheney’s reckless escalation of covert operations in the Middle East is proof that he is the antithesis of Solon and Jefferson.

One of America’s greatest presidents, John Quincy Adams, warned that America must not seek out monsters to destroy lest she would become “dictatress of the world.”

The spirits of departed American presidents are hovering over the monuments and buildings of Washington gathering for a perfect storm of constitutional ultra-violence and the ensuing battle for the hearts and minds of America over the nemesis of Iran-Qaeda.

Quotations from Seymour Hersh’s, The Redirection

“The key players behind the redirection are Vice-President Dick Cheney, the deputy national-security adviser Elliott Abrams, the departing Ambassador to Iraq (and nominee for United Nations Ambassador), Zalmay Khalilzad, and Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the Saudi national-security adviser. While Rice has been deeply involved in shaping the public policy, former and current officials said that the clandestine side has been guided by Cheney.”

“(Walid) Jumblatt then told me that he had met with Vice-President Cheney in Washington last fall to discuss, among other issues, the possibility of undermining Assad. He and his colleagues advised Cheney that, if the United States does try to move against Syria, members of the Syrian Muslim Brotherhood would be ‘the ones to talk to,’ Jumblatt said.”

“Jumblatt said, ‘We told Cheney that the basic link between Iran and Lebanon is Syria—and to weaken Iran you need to open the door to effective Syrian opposition.’”

“Jumblatt said he understood that the issue was a very sensitive one for the White House....because Jumblatt knows full well about the White House Murder Inc, and its infamous Killer Asef Shawkat, and his assassination of Mr. Elie HOBEIKA January 24th 2002...on behalf of Ariel SHARON and the White House Murder Machinations Inc, of CIA2/MOSSAD and OSP.... ‘I told Cheney that some people in the Arab world, mainly the Egyptians’ —whose moderate Sunni leadership has been fighting the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for decades—‘won’t like it if the United States helps the Brotherhood. But if you don’t take on Syria we will be face to face in Lebanon with Hezbollah in a long fight, and one we might not win.’”

(Seymour Hersh)

References:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission

http://paintedtruth.com/blog/index.php

http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n02/sieg01_.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fom0o1z-lI&eurl=http://prairiepundit.blogspot.com/&feature=player_embedded

Cheney takes refuge in shelter after Afghan blast

THE REDIRECTION - Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism? by SEYMOUR M. HERSH

Hersh: Bush Funneling Money to al Qaeda-Related Groups

America’s Alliance With bin Laden - We’re playing the Sunni card in the Middle East – and that means playing footsie with al-Qaeda

How Cheney bombed in Afghanistan

Dead-eye Dick loses grip in wind of change

Gunfire over the Pakistan border rattles Iranian leaders

US generals ‘will quit’ if Bush orders Iran attack

Collision Course With Iran

Iraq poised to hand control of oil fields to foreign firms

US’s Iraq oil grab is a done deal

The compelling case that confrontation is still on the cards

AIPAC Demands “Action” on Iran

Operation infinite difference

APRIL GLASPIE TRANSCRIPT

Thursday, January 22, 2009

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Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Siamese twins CIA2/MOSSAD, tribal politics and legitimacy full circle...






Siamese twins CIA2/MOSSAD, tribal politics and legitimacy full circle.

An American rabbi, Michael Lerner, is the editor of the progressive
interfaith magazine Tikkun. 'It breaks my heart,' he lamented, 'to see
Israel's stupidity. As a religious Jew, it confirms to me how easy it
is to pervert the loving message of Judaism into a message of hatred
and domination.'

Perhaps the most severe criticism of Israel by an Israeli has come
from Professor Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of
Palestine, his devastating account, published in 2006, of how Israel
terrorized, killed and chased out the native population of Palestine
in 1947-48. His verdict on the Gaza war is damning: 'Zionism is an
ideology that endorses ethnic cleansing, occupation and now massive
massacres. What is needed now is not just a condemnation of the
present massacre but also delegitimization of the ideology.'

Zionism, Pappé argues, has been exposed as 'a racist and hegemonic
ideology.' This, of course, is not news to its Palestinian victims,
nor indeed to most Arabs and Muslims. 'Let us hope,' Pappé pleads,
'that significant voices in the world will tell the Jewish state that
this ideology and the overall conduct of the state are intolerable and
unacceptable and as long as they persist, Israel will be boycotted and
subject to sanctions.'
One of Israel's sternest critics, Professor Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, said this week that Israel was losing the battle for legitimacy. What did he mean?
The answer came from the angry crowds demonstrating in cities across the world. For them, Israel's cruel assault on the helpless population of Gaza means that the Jewish state has lost its honor, its good name (or what small part of it is still intact), its threadbare claim to live by 'civilized Western values'.
Some demonstrators carried banners comparing Israel's cruel actions to Nazi barbarism against the Jews. The massacre in Gaza is just one too many to stomach, one too many after the long list of atrocities, from Deir Yassin onwards, that Israel has perpetrated against the Palestinians, the Lebanese and other Arabs since it emerged brutally at the heart of the region six decades ago.
Yet, most Israelis cheered on their soldiers in their gruesome task. Brainwashed by cynical leaders and by a compliant media, they seemed to believe that their country is waging a 'just war' in Gaza. The rest of the world knows better. And so do a handful of far-sighted Israelis, who - to their great credit - represent the troubled conscience of their violently aggressive country.
Uri Avnery, Israel's oldest and most relentlessly- consistent peace campaigner, wrote this week: 'What will be seared into the consciousness of the world will be the image of Israel as a blood-stained monster… This will have severe consequences for our long-term future… In the end, this war is a crime against ourselves too, a crime against the State of Israel.'
Another wise Israeli is Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations at Oxford University. Israel, he believes, has become a rogue state: 'A rogue state habitually violates international law, possesses weapons of mass destruction, and practices terrorism - the use of violence against civilians for political purposes. Israel fulfils all of these three criteria.'

What all these dissident Israeli voices are saying is that Israel has lost the battle for legitimacy. By reducing Gaza to ruins, by terrorizing and slaughtering its inhabitants, it has not only permanently damaged its 'image' - so important in today's media-dominated world - but it has also severely undermined its political and moral standing, so essential for its long-term survival.
So why is Israel doing it? As the world watches in horror as the F-16s and Apache helicopters flatten Gaza over the heads of its martyred inhabitants, two explanations might be advanced. One is that there is something profoundly irrational in Israel's search for absolute security for its own people, whatever the cost to others - an attitude which can perhaps be explained as a delayed response to the terrible suffering endured by the Jews in Europe in the last century.
This past trauma may explain why Israel seems unable to tolerate any resistance to itself, however feeble. Hamas's largely futile rockets seem to induce in it into an insane homicidal rage. How dare a rag-tag Arab militia challenge the might of the Jewish state, which has fought so hard to establish its absolute military dominance over any possible Arab combination, and which has insisted on America guaranteeing its 'military edge' over all its opponents?
But irrational may not be an adequate description of Israel's behavior. Its actions seem to reveal a profound psychological disturbance, suggesting that the United States has perhaps been unwise to put lethal weapons in the hands of professional killers, of uncertain sanity.
Another explanation of Israeli behavior is quite different, and points to a wider and more sinister Israeli goal than simply satisfying an exaggerated and paranoid need for security.
Since 1948 - indeed since Britain's Balfour Declaration of 1917 -- Israeli leaders of every political coloring have been determined to frustrate any move towards Palestinian statehood. They feared - and still fear --that this would undermine their own national project. They have acted systematically as if there were no room for two states in historic Palestine. They want the whole territory for themselves. How else to explain that Israel refuses to define its borders and keeps relentlessly pushing outwards?
Some Israeli leaders, like Yitzhak Rabin for example, have talked peace, but without matching actions to their words. The creeping annexation of the West Bank has proceeded apace, whether under Labor or Likud or, more recently, under Kadima.
The war in Gaza looks like a desperate attempt to sink, once and for all, any possibility of a two-state solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. What alternative do Israel's leaders have in mind? Clearly, they would like to hand Gaza over to Egypt, thereby ridding themselves of responsibility for this mass of suffering humanity, while dealing a massive blow to the Palestinians' aspiration for statehood. Egypt has been most reluctant to open the Rafah crossing - even at the risk of facing the anger and contempt of Arab opinion --precisely because it suspects that this is Israel's ultimate intention.
Ariel Sharon, Israel's former Prime Minister, withdrew Jewish settlements from Gaza in 2005 in order to consolidate Israel's hold over the West Bank. That policy is still very much alive. The West Bank settlers have by now become so numerous and so powerful as to be virtually immovable. They have no interest in peace. They want land and still more land....and the PNAC neo-hegemonic killers want more tribes with flags to splinter the whole middle east, south Asia, central Asia, and from Tibet all the way to Africa....they just won't let go of that grand scheming....with Cheney, Brzezinski or Oubama....the Siamese twins will be on a roll again....evidence by the mounting sectarian violence in IRAQ again, as a direct result of American inspired tribal politics....Tribal Rivalries Persist as Iraqis Seek Local Posts. Here in barren Anbar Province, the tribes that were once the main source of support for killing American soldiers are now running in provincial elections that, in the best case, could fulfill American promises to create stability in Iraq by the ballot box....

But two weeks before the voting, in Anbar it appears that the ancient
tribal way of doing business is on a collision course with the new
ideal of democracy. Anbar is where the United States military enlisted
tribal leaders and former insurgents to create the Sunni Awakening,
fostering a calm that rippled around Iraq.

Now the tribes are jockeying to gain or maintain power, and people
here complain bitterly that the machinery of democracy is gilding
corruption, internal rivalries and an intense feudal instinct that
regards elected office — unthinkable under Saddam Hussein — as a
chance for a bigger cut of provincial resources and security forces.

“It’s a mess,” said Sheik Amer Abdul-Jabbar, an elderly and ailing
tribal leader from Anbar Province, respected among some as the wise
“prince” of Anbar, but derided by others as an opportunist eager to
lend his tribal credentials to the highest bidder.

Around Iraq, the provincial elections, scheduled for Jan. 31, are
viewed as a landmark moment to reshape, and make fairer, local
politics. Many Sunni Muslims boycotted the last provincial elections
four years ago, and as a result are now underrepresented in local
councils in many parts of the country. The United States hopes that
these elections will fix that as its own military and political power
in Iraq wane.

And in Anbar, the campaign looks refreshingly like elections all over
the world. Party posters are plastered around the province, at times
on concrete blast walls, reminders of more violent days.

There are more than 500 candidates divided into 37 political groups —
a robust choice given the boycott of four years ago. Sheiks making
earnest campaign promises proudly display photographs of themselves
posing with other politicians. One tribal leader managed pictures with
both President Bush and Barack Obama.

But Anbar, poor and lawless even under Mr. Hussein, is different from
many other parts of Iraq. It is overwhelmingly Sunni, so the fights
are not ethnic or sectarian but between competing tribes. When the
Americans began paying former insurgents and tribal leaders to help
enforce security, they favored some tribes over others, in many cases
displacing the old for upstarts.

That fostered a general peace layered over an angry tribal instability
that many fear could turn lethal, in the elections or after.

“We are not suited for democracy,” said Maj. Gen. Tariq al-Youssef,
the chief of the provincial police force, who worries that the tribes
are seeking political power not to administer the security forces, but
to co-opt them as quasi tribal militias.

Broadly, the Awakening is seeking to transform its credentials as
peacemakers into political power, a force for the minority Sunnis
against the dominance of the Shiite prime minister, Nuri Kamal al-
Maliki, and the Shiite parties. Here in Anbar, the new political
forces are meant to challenge the Iraqi Islamic Party, which became
the main Sunni party after the elections in 2005, but is often accused
of corrupt and autocratic rule.

On one level, the elections are functioning as their American
designers had hoped: The lure of elective office is creating new
political entities seeking to gain legitimacy by attracting the
largest number of voters.

“This is democracy,” reveled Mamoon Sami Rashid, the governor, who is
running for re-election despite many corruption allegations against
him. “Each sheik wants to have his say. Previously only the paramount
sheik ruled.”

On a recent afternoon here in Ramadi, Bangladeshi servants whisked
around trays of mutton and rice for well-wishers at the opulent
compound of Sheik Ahmed Abu Risha, who is not running for office but
is fielding a slate of candidates. His party is casting for votes on
promises to rebuild Anbar’s war-battered economy and to create jobs.

But dig deeper, and the tensions become clear.

Before the American invasion in 2003, the Abu Risha tribe had not been
among the most powerful.

But as the American military built up the Awakening groups, his tribe
has flourished with American support and political largess. Sheik
Ahmed’s brother, Abdul Sattar Buzaigh al-Rishawi, was the leader of
the Awakening until he was killed in a suicide bombing, betrayed by
his own bodyguard, in September 2007.

Now the sprawling Abu Risha estate is ringed with Iraqi Army and
police checkpoints. Sheik Ahmed’s new wealth, as the Awakening leader,
is on display: stables of Arabian horses, a camel farm, caged fawns, a
pink mansion and a fleet of armored S.U.V.’s. Sheik Ahmed owns
properties as well as trade and investment companies in the United
Arab Emirates. He envisions a similar future for Anbar, and is pushing
for a natural gas project worth billions.

“I dream of Anbar becoming like Dubai,” Sheik Ahmed said. “We have all
the prerequisites.”

Not everyone shares his vision.

Nestled amid palm groves just across the river from the Abu Risha fief
is the seat of the Abu Dhiab tribe. Its leader, Sheik Mohammed al-
Hayis, is nicknamed “the whale” because of the lucrative contracts
steered his way by the American military, admits his brother, Sheik
Hamid al-Hayis. A large photograph of Sheik Mohammed with President
Bush adorns his opulent mansion, which is decked with marble stairs
and giant crystal chandeliers.

Sheik Hamid, who counts himself among the early Awakening leaders,
said that Sheik Ahmed had “dishonored” the legacy of his late brother
Sattar by forming his own political party and making friendly
overtures to the ruling Iraqi Islamic Party, which Sheik Hamid
describes as the sworn enemy of the tribes.

As a result, Sheik Hamid and his brother have formed their own rival
election slate called simply the Tribes of Iraq.

Among his backers is Sheik Jabbar al-Fahdawi, who accuses Sheik Ahmed
of sowing discord inside many tribes, including his own Abu Fahed, by
extending patronage to certain members of the tribes and promoting
them over others as the real leaders.

“Ahmed inherited the Awakening from Sattar and turned it into an
enterprise for deals and contracts,” said Sheik Jabbar, 35, who owns a
contracting company.

“Anbar is splintered; the tribes are splintered.”

At the seat of the influential Abu Nimer tribe in the town of Hit,
west of Ramadi, a part of the tribe has backed the Abu Risha and a
rival group within the tribe belittles them as “highway bandits” unfit
to enter politics.

Mr. Maliki has also jumped into the fray in Anbar, drafting nearly
3,000 Awakening members last fall in the town of Garma, near Fallujah,
into a new tribal council answerable to his office with oversight
powers over the local government. This has jolted several sheiks
affiliated with the Awakening in Garma, where security remains
tenuous.

The council’s chief, Col. Saad Abbas, recently survived an attempt to
poison him after narrowly escaping a truck bomb attack last month. The
effective crumbling of the Awakening has benefited other forces in
Anbar.

In a move viewed by many as a shrewd game of political survival, the
Iraqi Islamic Party has spread its candidates among several lists,
while its main list, the Alliance of the Educated and Tribes for
Development, is led by Sheik Amer, the septuagenarian “prince” of
Anbar.

The party’s legacy, after four years in power, has been tainted by
numerous corruption charges, including financial improprieties
involving a $52 million contract to import medical equipment for
provincial hospitals and a $60 million contract to upgrade the
telecommunications network.

And so some in Anbar are turning quietly to other alternatives: Gen.
Saadoun al-Jumaili, a former commander in the Iraqi Air Force who now
leads an elite police unit in Garma, said a reconstructed version of
Mr. Hussein’s ruling Baath Party was becoming more popular. While it
is officially banned, General Jumaili said with some approval that it
was operating in secret in Anbar and that it was making strides in
regrouping.

The party reportedly held a large secret meeting for its members late
last year in the town of Khaldiya.

“The most honorable party at the moment is the Baath,” said General
Jumaili, adding that tribal leaders, even his own relatives, have no
place in electoral politics.

On the streets of Ramadi and Fallujah there is little enthusiasm for
the elections and there are ample accusations that both the Iraqi
Islamic Party and the Awakening tribal leaders are siphoning off much
of the billions of dollars of American and Iraqi financing intended
for reconstruction. Much of the reconstruction, indeed, seems
cosmetic.

“One gang leaves and another one comes in,” said Anas Ahmed, 22, a
government employee in Ramadi.

In Qattana, a Ramadi neighborhood that was once an insurgent
stronghold, and behind the crumbling and war-battered buildings on the
main road that were given a quick bright paint job as part of the
reconstruction drive, the back streets are flooded with a sludgy mix
of sewage and clogged rainwater. A few dead rats float. Several months
ago, a major water drainage project was supposed to have fixed the
problem.

The greatest risk is that dissatisfaction with the current order could
leave room for a return of the insurgency.

In recent months there have been a number of assassination attempts
against political and tribal figures in Anbar. A double truck bombing
against police stations in Fallujah on Dec. 4 killed 17 people. On Dec.
26, militants broke out of a jail here, leaving 14 dead.

“I am pained because the situation is providing openings for Al Qaeda
to come back, and it is coming back slowly but surely,” said Sheik
Aifan al-Issawi, a native of Fallujah and one of the original Anbar
Awakening leaders, who is running for office.

Perhaps worse, some in Anbar say they are so fed up with what
democracy seems to be bringing that they would welcome back the
insurgency.

“This is what we will get from elections,” said Hassan Ramzi, 47, a
carpenter, pointing to the filthy streets of Ramadi. “There must be a
radical solution.”

--
The Long--and Largely Untold--History Of Jewish Opposition to Zionism...


"No one who reads Yakov Rabkin’s thoroughly researched book will ever
again believe that Zionism and Judaism are the same, or that Zionism
enjoys the level of support among Jews in the United States and
elsewhere in the world which it claims."

While many in Israel and in Jewish communities here and in other
countries now promote the idea that Zionism and Judaism are, in effect,
the same, and that opposition to Zionism constitutes “anti-Semitism,”
the historical--largely untold--fact is that, for most of its history,
Zionism has been a decidedly minority movement among Jews throughout the
world.

Since its inception as a political movement in 1897, both Reform and
Orthodox Jews have rejected Zionism’s basic premise of creating a Jewish
state in Palestine and having Jews either emigrate to it or, at the very
least, view it as “central” to their Jewish identity.

An overwhelming majority of Orthodox Jews, unwilling to accept the
restoration of a Jewish state in Palestine by means other than divine
intervention, considered Zionism a false messianic movement. Most Jewish
liberals and socialists, having accepted the ideals of the
Enlightenment, with its emphasis in optimism, reason and progress,
rejected Zionism as a reactionary philosophy. Acculturated Jews in
Western and Central Europe who regarded themselves simply as members of
a religious community, rejected the notion that their nationality was
not English, French or German--but “Jewish.”

Reform Judaism’s position was quite contrary to that promulgated by
Zionism. The most articulate spokesman for the German Reform movement,
the distinguished rabbi and scholar Abraham Geiger (1810-1874), argued
that Judaism developed through an evolutionary process that had begun
with God’s revelation to the Hebrew prophets. That revelation was
progressive, with new truth becoming available to every generation.
According to Geiger, the underlying and unchangeable essence of Judaism
was its morality, and the core of Judaism was ethical monotheism. He
considered the Jewish people a religious community, destined to carry on
the mission to “serve as a light to the nations,” to bear witness to God
and His moral law. The dispersion of the Jews was not a punishment for
their sins, in Geiger’s view, but a part of God’s plan whereby they were
to disseminate the universal message of ethical monotheism throughout
the world. Indeed, in a Reform prayerbook he edited in 1854 Geiger
deleted all prayers about a return to Zion.

American Reform Judaism, in the 1885 Pittsburgh Platform, rejected
Jewish nationalism. Its fifth paragraph declared: “We consider ourselves
no longer a nation but a religious community.”

On March 4, 1919 Julius Kahn, a Jewish congressman from San Fransisco,
delivered to President Woodrow Wilson a statement endorsed by 299
prominent Jewish Americans denouncing the Zionists for attempting to
segregate Jews and reverse the historic trend toward emancipation. It
objected to the creation of a distinctly Jewish state in Palestine
because such a political entity would be contrary “to the principles of
democracy.”

On April 20, 1922, Rabbi David Philipson, testifying before the House
Foreign Affairs Committee, rejected the characterization of Palestine
“as the national home of the Jewish people.” He insisted that, “No land
can be spoken of as the national home of the Jewish people, as Jews are
nationals of many lands.”

An important new book, A Threat From Within: A Century of Jewish
Opposition to Zionism (available from the AET Book Club) by Professor
Yakov M. Rabkin, professor of history at the University of Montreal,
sheds significant light on Jewish religious opposition to Zionism. After
completing his university education, Dr. Rabkin studied Judaism with
rabbis in Montreal, Paris and Jerusalem. He brings a lifetime of study
and experience to his subject.

Noting that “the rejection of Zionism is often interpreted as an act of
treachery toward the Jewish people,” Rabkin explains that “’Zionism’ was
an invention of intellectuals and assimilated Jews...who turned their
back on the rabbis and aspired to modernity, seeking desperately for a
remedy for their existential anxiety.”

Zionism gained support in areas where social and political conditions
were unfavorable to Jews, particularly within the Russian Empire.
Indeed, Rabkin argues, Zionism has far more in common with the emerging
nationalisms which swept Europe in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries than with anything to be found in Jewish tradition.

Many today forget the fact that, as Rabkin writes, “Zionism constitutes
the most radical revolution in Jewish history. Opposition to this
nationalist conceptualization of the Jew and of Jewish history was as
intense as it was immediate. Even those rabbis who at first encouraged
settlement in Palestine in the closing decades of the 19th century felt
obliged to turn against Zionism. What made the Jews unique, they
declared, was neither the territory of Eretz Israel nor the Hebrew
language, but the Torah and the practice of mitzvahs. The pious Jews of
Palestine--the only kind before Zionist settlement--enjoyed a certain
degree of autonomy granted by the sultan. They had never contemplated
national status, a concept as foreign to the Palestinian Jews as it was
to the Ottoman authorities in Istanbul.”

In the early 20th century, the reaction to Zionism among both Orthodox
and Reform Jews was overwhelming. The French rabbis were unanimous.
Zionism was “narrow-minded and reactionary.” They refused to recognize
Jews as a separate political nation. “We, the French Israelites, have a
fatherland and we intend to keep it.”

Israel, the state, rather than God, has become the object of worship for
many Jews at the present time, Rabkin notes. Indeed, Zionism not only
has changed Jewish life, but has shifted the meaning of the word
“Israel.” According to Rabbi Jacob Neusner, an American academic and one
of the most prolific interpreters of Judaism, “The word ‘Israel’ today
generally refers to the overseas political nation, the State of Israel.
When people say, ‘I am going to Israel,’ they mean a trip to Tel Aviv or
Jerusalem...[But] the prayers that Judaism teaches, all use the word
‘Israel’ to mean ‘the holy community.’”

In his book, Transformation, Rabbi Israel Domb writes: “It manifestly is
absurd to believe that we have been waiting for 2000 years in so much
anguish and with such high hopes and with so many heartfelt prayers
merely in order to finish up by playing the same role in the world as an
Albania or Honduras. Is it not the height of futility, to believe that
all the streams of blood and tears, to which we ourselves can bear
witness in our own time apart from the testimony of our ancestors,
should have been fated to the acquisition of this kind of nationhood
which the Rumanians or Czechs, for instance, have achieved to a greater
extent of success without all these preparations.”

Professor Rabkin points out in A Threat From Within that many positions
taken by anti-Zionists are close to those of the Israeli “peace camp.”
For example, a Neturei Karta document asserts: “The Zionist movement was
not only a heretical departure from Judaism...It was monstrously blind
to the indigenous inhabitants of the Holy Land. In the 1890s, less than
5% of the Holy Land’s population was Jewish, yet Theodor
Herzl...described his movement as that of ‘a people without a land for a
land without a people’...They have dispossessed thousands...and plunged
the region into its never-ending spiral of bloodshed.”

No one who reads Yakov Rabkin’s thoroughly researched book will ever
again believe that Zionism and Judaism are the same, or that Zionism
enjoys the level of support among Jews in the United States and
elsewhere in the world which it claims.

Links referenced within this article.

Lincoln Review.
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Lincoln Institute for Research and Education
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Issues
http://www.acjna.org/acjna/articles_issues.aspx
American Council for Judaism
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Part One of the Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist documentary from The Corbett
Report, dealing with the founding and funding of what we know as Al
Qaeda. This installment of the documentary goes into Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Operation Cyclone, the ISI-CIA-MAK-US government funding
circle and CIA connections to Osama Bin Laden. For more information
about this documentary, including a bibliography of works cited, please
visit the documentary website:
http://www.alqaedadoesntexist.com

Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist - Part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek7ZHenQnu4


Al Qaeda Doesn't Exist - Part 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnV_pNe_BB0
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Friday, January 16, 2009

Bombs for more "tribes with flags" to come....CIA2/MOSSAD .











Bombs for more "tribes with flags" to come....CIA2/MOSSAD

After almost three weeks of brutal bombing, it is time to call a spade a spade. The unprecedented Israeli offensive in Gaza, which is offensive in every way, has nothing to do with Hamas, primitive rockets, Mahmoud Abbas or a little town in southern Israel. It also has little to do with the upcoming Israeli elections... All of these bit players are sideshows in the face of Israel's true, multi-pronged strategy: the denial of Palestinian independence...

Tony Clifton, Newsweek Magazine's then-Beirut correspondent, wrote in his heart-breaking book about the Israel siege of Beirut in 1982, "God Cried", that he had come to the conclusion that the systematic destruction of the Lebanese capital one hot summer 27 years ago had nothing to do with "destroying the PLO infrastructure of terror" and was nothing but an elaborate and deadly diversionary action. He claimed that it was all done to divert the world's attention from Israel's determined thrust to settle and colonize the West Bank and pre-empt any kind of two-state settlement based on UN Security Council resolutions 181, 194, 242 and 338....425,426.520, ....

His words, written over a quarter of a century ago, have proved to be prescient. Like clockwork, Israel could be relied on to do two things when it felt that something could obstruct its, and USA's grand designs of fracturing the whole world into "tribes with flags"...in order to further grand hegemonic designs to militarize energy security for the USA and Israel for the next 100 years, and increase settlement activity and wage a war against whoever was out of favor at the moment.... In 1982, 1987, and 2002 it was the PLO/Fatah/Palestinian Authority who were the bogeymen. During the so called "peace years" between 1995-2000, settlements in the West Bank doubled in size and grew at a rate previously unseen. Now, it is Hamas' turn....which was giving ominous signs of accepting the so-called two states solution....

The repercussions of this strategy are and will be disastrous for the region and the world at large. But the question which begs to be asked is, "why now?" Any sort of peace deal seems extremely remote so what is the hurry? One reason: CIA2/MOSSAD and the power behind the power in USA, front-loaded by neo-Zionists for cover....getting edgy and nervous, in a near panic mode because of the complete meltdown of the shadowy financial smokes and mirrors....and the new stooge in town Barack mossad Oubama....

The assault on the Palestinian coastal strip can only be carried out, like all the others were, with the clear acquiescence of the United States. George W. Bush, like Ronald Reagan, has given the Israelis carte blanche to do whatever they please, to the detriment of all, Israel included. Olmert, Livni and Barak are just very sure what the man from Illinois will never do....because he and Israel will continue to be subservient to the real power behind the power in USA.... and they are fairly certain that he will risk vital US national security interests to please the CIA2/MOSSAD Siamese twins and their front NOC lobby and the pathetically subservient Jewish lobby and Congress... While the president-elect's statements have calmed ALL Jewish and Israeli firsters/Americans, the cabal in Tel Aviv is acutely aware that Barack Obama is their "gifted" son...and their best creation ever....beating the good old KGB at their own games....

Just like all recent US presidents, he is beholden to the CIA2/MOSSAD lobby and other special interests.... He represents NO hope, NO change and nothing new, nor any rational way of thinking. And if there is anything that worries the Middle East powers that be (the corrupt Arab regimes very much included), it is hope and change.... Hence, the wanton bombardment of an already miserable Gaza. If the situation wasn't so tragic, it would be farcical. The lame attempts, slavishly parroted by much of the world's press, by Israel's mouthpieces to put Hamas' AK-47s on a par with one of the most powerful and well equipped militaries in the world is simply preposterous. Israel is killing Palestinians, most of them innocent civilians, at a rate of 1000 to one. The fact that all of this is ridiculously disproportionate is only topped by the way the Siamese twins CIA2/MOSSAD and the Bushiest seem to be more Israeli than Ariel Sharon....and his infamous operations "Spark" and "Iron Brain" in 1982....

Israel, which has drifted steadily to the right of Augusto Pinochet over the past 130 years, was not in a panic. Livni and Barak found themselves confronted with the great known "unknowns...", completely sure how it would affect their dismal electoral chances and the disgraced Olmert was willing to do just about anything to divert attention from his corrupt and scandal-ridden present. So they did what they know best: create facts on the ground....by adding fuel to the fires of murder, war crimes, and more political assassinations... They are doing their utmost to box the soon-to-be president into a corner where he loses himself in the distractions of the moment. Barack Obama's fake and manufactured victory by the power behind the power in USA...was solidly based on sticking to his core message while translating that message into real support via one hell of a CIA2/MOSSAD team. He is easily distracted and led astray.... But Bush has left him a country in such dire economic straights that he truly has his hands busy even before he takes the oath on January 20. And no matter what any Palestinian may say, he has wisely held the counsel of the real power behind the power....regarding Gaza for he realizes he has nothing to gain and much to lose. Yet, herein are the lies the CIA2/MOSSAD opportunity to further their strategic aim of fracturing the whole middle east into a million pieces and more tribes with flags in the Levant, South Asia, all the way to Mauritania and Tibet....

Out of the death and destruction wreaked by the US/Israeli army, air force, and navy on Gaza, Barack Obama can make the ruins bloom. By breaking the paradigm of procedure over more of the endless procedure, by insisting on serving the cabal of the real power behind the power in USA... to the detriment of the national interests (as opposed to Israel's), and by leading his national security team with a crystal clear vision that continues to allow for the support of all corrupt Arab regimes and the Israeli occupation, he has no chance, by sheer force of will, to alter history in a lasting manner. I am quite confident that he will not find a receptive audience around the world, once he attempts to hold his own against the sure to be toxic and concerted attacks of people in the know....

The line is clear: US security lies in a safe and secure Cabal of the power behind the power in USA and Israel's security lies in peace and not in blatant militarism and occupation. More than that, Israel's future is directly tied to the freedom of the Palestinian people. A real friend of Israel would do well to make sure they understand that.....but we know that they do understand that very well on their own... but they are completely addicted to their subservient role to the power behind the power... wherever that happens to be at any hegemonic moment in history, it was the case with Britain.... now is the case with the USA Cabal of CIA2/MOSSAD....

Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Mill Valley Spy Ring Suspected: Israeli Espionage Artists...






behind the "power" in USA....

Sunday, January 11, 2009

These young people were not born "terrorists".....







These young people were not born "terrorists".

It is important to help the readers, whether Palestinians or
expatriates, to understand the phenomenon of suicide bombings that
tragically arises from the deep misery and torment of many
Palestinians. For how else can one explain it? When healthy,
beautiful, and intelligent young men and women set out to kill and be
killed, something is basically wrong in a world that has not heard
their anguished cry for justice. These young people deserve to live
along with all those whom they have caused to die. This article is,
therefore, addressed to all people of conscience urging them to work
for a speedy termination of the illegal occupation of the Palestinian
territories. Such an act will, most certainly, bring this tragic
phenomenon of suicide bombing to an end and ensure security for both
Israel as well as Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan etc.

These young people were not born "terrorists". No one is born a
terrorist. They were born in the image and likeness of God. They were
born human beings with love of life and freedom. All of them, with no
exception, were born under the Israeli military occupation. The only
Jews they knew were Israeli soldiers carrying guns and dehumanizing
them. It was in the crucible of the occupation that they were shaped
and formed. And if Israel labels them as terrorists, they are, after
all the product of its own making.

Moreover, these young Palestinians did not blow themselves up because
they simply wanted to commit suicide. Before 1993, they were resisting
the occupation of their country through the traditional methods
available to them. All they wanted was the end of the occupation and
the establishment of their own state along side the state of Israel.
However, with increasing Israeli oppressive and punitive measures
against them -- the use of helicopter gun ships to assassinate
Palestinian leaders, F-16 fighter planes to kill people and destroy
homes, the mushrooming of military checkpoints to control and
humiliate people, closures and siege of Palestinian cities and towns,
army incursions into Palestinian areas, and much more -- suicide
bombings came to be perceived as a more potent tool of resistance that
can reciprocate the pain and hurt they were experiencing. And as they
were driven deeper into despair, their desire to hit back in any way
possible grew in intensity. From a Palestinian perspective, therefore,
the real sequence of the cycle of resistance has been this: Israeli
occupation, Palestinian resistance, greater Israeli oppressive
measures, and greater attempts on the Palestinian side to increase the
resistance, and the vicious circle goes on.

Besides the basic political injustice and the oppressiveness of the
occupation, there are four major areas that constitute the breeding
ground for suicide bombers. To begin with, many young men have become
permanently unemployed. Even when other older men were able to find
employment within the pre-1967 borders in Israel, most young men were
barred from entering because Israel considered them a security risk.
During the second intifada, the unemployment rate soared to an
alarming 75% in some quarters. This led to the fact that approximately
65% of the Palestinian population was living below the poverty line.
It has been extremely difficult for many people to find any form of
work. Unemployment creates frustration and despair, and could lead to
extreme action.

Moreover, it is the young men more than others who are humiliated,
harassed, and provoked by the Israeli soldiers. Some of the worst
humiliation takes place at checkpoints. The occupied areas have become
infested with them. Some reports have mentioned more than 180. Many of
them have become permanently fixed, others are arbitrarily mounted at
whim. The occupied territories have been literally segmented into
numerous small cantons where it is impossible to move from one area to
another without running into military checkpoints. It takes hours to
pass through areas that normally take a few minutes. Humiliation is
perhaps one of the worst methods used by Israel to dehumanize the
Palestinians. It is clearly a policy that strips people of their self
worth and dignity. It is directed at all echelons and age groups of
Palestinian society.

Furthermore, there is hardly any Palestinian family in the West Bank
and the Gaza Strip that has not experienced some kind of pain or
injury. Many families have lost their loved ones - a spouse, a
sibling, a child, a relative, or a close friend. The level of
bitterness and hatred keeps rising daily. Almost every aspect of
Palestinian life is controlled by the Israeli army and many people
have lost the ability to dream of a better future or envisage a better
life. Therefore, the desire to avenge their wasted life, take revenge
against the occupation, and at the same time take away with them as
many Israeli lives as possible becomes an objective.

There is another group of young Palestinian men and women that must be
mentioned. Many of these have been arrested and tortured in Israeli
prisons and "concentration" camps. In fact, Israeli prisons have
become the "factories" for creating and "manufacturing" collaborators.
Young men are detained for indefinite periods of time and are
pressured into becoming spies and collaborators. They are simply
trapped and some of them do not know how to shake it off. This
phenomenon causes some of them to exist in constant self-contempt and
scorn for having betrayed their own people. Forced collaboration has
stripped them of their self worth. They are ready to become suicide
bombers in order to purify and redeem themselves and express their
utmost loyalty and patriotism for their country and people.

To sum up, these young people's daily life has become an experience of
death. It is vividly symbolized in the daily funerals of their
colleagues that they have to attend. Indeed, many of them feel that
Israel has practically pronounced a death sentence on them. It is only
a matter of time. Death is surely coming to them whether through a
slow economic strangulation, or harsh political negation, or daily
personal dehumanization. Since they have been stripped of their human
dignity, their only possibility for existence is to exist as slaves
under an Israeli apartheid system of domination. They feel they have
no options and very little to lose. Consequently, they are willing to
give themselves up for the cause of God and the homeland (watan)
believing that with God there is so much to gain.

From the perspective of those who believe in and carry out these
suicide operations, there is a simple and plain logic. As Israeli
soldiers shell and kill Palestinians indiscriminately, Palestinian
suicide bombers strap themselves with explosives and kill Israelis
indiscriminately. They perceive every Israeli as the enemy who has
robbed them of their land and is responsible for their misery. If
Israel can carry its incursions with the most sophisticated
American-made war machinery, the Palestinians carry out their
resistance with even the most elementary crude homemade explosives. If
Israel drives its tanks to destroy and devastate Palestinian areas,
the suicide bombers use their own bodies as tanks and shells to
destroy and devastate Israeli areas. If the oppressors have the heart
(or should one say lose the heart) to kill women and children and to
make the life of Palestinians miserable, the suicide bombers are not
going to spare Israeli lives as well.

Moreover, Sharon has insisted repeatedly that Israel is involved in a
war with the Palestinians. In war, soldiers give themselves up on
behalf of their country whether their country is the aggressor or
fending aggression. Officially speaking, some countries argue that the
Palestinian suicide bombers are not proper soldiers that belong to an
internationally recognized state and their resistance, therefore,
cannot be considered legitimate. Some Palestinians would, however,
argue that if what is going on is a war as Israel claims it is, then
in war the whole nation is mobilized and different militia groups
become engaged in resisting the occupation of their country as
happened in France during the 2WW. Furthermore, in war, most armies
and militias do not always comply with codes of war ethics and many
civilians as well as military are killed. Some have argued that the
suicide bombers are also fighting a war and killing as many of the
enemy as they can so that the psychological warfare can create panic
and fear as well as contribute to weakening and capitulation. In this
same vein, how does one view the US atomic bombing of two major cities
in Japan during the 2WW and the killing of over 170,000 most of them
civilians?

The militants go on to argue that what they are doing is precisely
like a soldier in battle who carries a heroic act by storming a club
within a military camp and blowing himself up killing soldiers as well
as women and children who happen to be enjoying a party. If one looks
at it in this context of warfare, then it happens all the time. No war
has been free from such acts and its actors were labeled heroes and
were awarded medals posthumously. They were not called terrorists. In
the West such acts are deemed heroic, but in Islam, due to the close
ties between God and country, they are given a religious character and
the people involved are considered "shuhada" (martyrs); their act is
martyrdom and its prize is paradise rather than a human military
medal. When one considers it from this angle, then being engaged in
war and the defense of one's homeland, these militants would argue,
the suicide bombings could be a legitimate way of resistance.

Shamai Leibowitz on June 27, 2002 wrote a letter entitled, "An Israeli
Officer's Response To President Bush". He introduced himself in the
following way, "I am an Orthodox Jew and a criminal defense attorney
in Tel Aviv. I am also a tank gunner in reserve duty, and part of a
group of 1000 soldiers who have refused to serve in the occupied
territories. Many of them were imprisoned in military jails in the
past few months." Then he added the words, "Now that President Bush
has enlightened us with his new 'Plan' for the Middle East, we can
only wonder how long it will take him to realize that his plan is
useless and meaningless..". "His [Bush's] failure to understand that
no progress can be made while a whole nation [Palestinian] is being
brutally occupied is the basic flaw in this policy.. Bush fails to
comprehend that the suicide bombings are a product of mass starvation
and humiliation of the Palestinian people. Bush's aides are doing us
so much harm by refusing to acknowledge that only an immediate end to
the Israeli occupation will bring an immediate end to the Palestinian
uprising."....but, what Mr. Shamai Leibowitz fails to comprehend, since
he obviously does not know that all Israeli lobbies worldwide are willfully
subservient to the power behind the power in USA, hence the whole
Israeli pariah state is an American Banana Republic....

"We are now witnessing a situation in which 3.5 million people have no
future, no hope, no vision, other than to become terrorists and avenge
the continued harassment and shelling by the Israeli army's
helicopters, tanks and artillery. While Bush has never set foot in
this region, we have been living here, watching how the Palestinians
were trampled and denied basic rights on a daily basis, besieged and
occupied in every possible way. Our Jewish sources teach us that where
there is no justice, there is no peace.. Most Israelis know deep in
their hearts that once we stop humiliating and oppressing this nation,
we will return to become a safe and secure democratic Israel living
next to a viable Palestinian State.".

Although some people in our Palestinian community admire the sacrifice
of the suicide bombers and view it as the penultimate in the offering
of oneself for the sake of the homeland and the liberation of the
people; and although we understand its deeper motivation and
background, we condemn it from both our position of faith as well as a
legitimate method for resisting the occupation....

Ultimately, there cannot be room for hate if we want to live together.
And live together we must. The sooner we put an end to the occupation
the better our life will be. Ending the occupation will certainly end
the suicide bombings. All peace-loving people, whether people of faith
or not, must exert greater concerted effort to work for the ending of
the occupation. Ultimately, justice will prevail, the occupation will
be over, and the Palestinians, as well as the Israelis, will enjoy
freedom and independence....
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This article summarizes and consolidates all the opinions on the issue of suicide bombings. Naim also tells the world community those resisting the occupation are not only Muslims.... They are Muslims, Christians and even Jews. But "Zionism hijacked Judaism" so that no difference exists today...
I have only one slight error made possibly unconsciously by Naim and that using the term "militant" after the Israel/Jewish media in the United States of America. Naim could have put in quotation as "militants" to indicate what the Israeli/Jewish media terms, or used the term "defenders" to indicate that these suicide bombers are defending their people and country. This article adds credibility to the concepts used on suicide bombings as poor man's, deprived man's, only man's, oppressed man's means of defending against Imperialism and Zionism when this man's back is against the wall....

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Ils sont des hommes qui se sont voués à Dieu et à la vérité

Notre Christ est né de nouveau

Notre Messie a ressuscité

Dr William Nassar **

Camarade Ismail Haniyeh

Nous le déclarons tel qu'un défi: Notre Christ est né de nouveau...

Allez l'annoncer, plein vos hautes voix, aux Etats Unies De l'Amérique, à Israël, à Housni Moubarek, à Mahmoud Abbès et, en particulier, aux mercenaires de Dahlan et aux prêtres du sang dans tous les coins du monde…

Notre Messie est de nouveau né...

Jetez la nouvelle puis reculez...

Laissez la s'exploser entre eux et de loin, regardez leur tumulte s'accroitre.

Ils allaient émettre une déclaration au nom de l'ONU déniant la nouvelle complotée et affirmant que le nommé Jésus Christ, Le Messie, était crucifié depuis deux milles années et qu'il était élevé aux Cieux...

Ils allaient s'appeler les uns les autres à une réunion d'urgence demandant aux héritiers de Jésus et aux curateurs de sa succession de dénoncer et censurer cette naissance, tout en la qualifiant de truc impromptu motivé par de méchants de l'extérieur.

Cependant, soyez certains que vous avez vaincu tout le monde et que notre Messie est né bien que les bandits aient bien scellé son sépulcre surveillé par des gardes de Haganah et des forces formées en Amérique, distribuées sur tous les barrages et les chemins qui mènent à lui.

L'homme palestinien, le brun de Bethlehem, le nouveau marié d'El Nassira (Nazareth) est né couronné de splendeur et d'indignation, ceinturé/ enceints des bombes et entourés de tous ses disciples: les suspects, les exilés, les étrangers, les réfugiés et les gamins des ruelles.

Notre Messie est de nouveau né et il a immédiatement rejoint sa position spécifié dans les camps de la bande de Gaza.

Ne vous étonnez pas, rien en lui n'a changé!

Il est encore un pur palestinien cananéen, et il excelle à l'incitation révolutionnaire. Et il mange avec ses mains sans fourchettes ni couteau.

Il est encore modeste et brave jusqu'aux os mais il se fâche chaque fois qu'il voit un gros ventre ou entend quelqu'un parlant d'une langue autre que l'arabe en sa présence.

Nous lui avons présenté le programme de la résistance, et il l'a approuvé et nous a appelé à l'exécuter rapidement.

Il a ajouté que les rumeurs concernant sa docilité et son pacifisme ne sont que mensonges et calomnies faisant tort à son histoire politique. Il a aussi insisté pour nous réciter quelques uns de ses discours instigateurs en Palestine.

Nous lui avons demandé des nouvelles de Yahya Ayyach, Imad Aqel, Wadi' Haddad, Abou Ali Mostafa, Jamel Abd Ennacer, Yasser Arafat, Ahmed Yassine, Abd El Aziz El Rantissi, "Saddam Husseïn" et tous nos martyrs bien-aimés qu'on avait, traîtreusement, assassinés…

Il nous a prévenu qu'il les a réveillés/ ressuscités lors de sa renaissance et aucun des absents qui s'étaient soudés avec la terre n'est plus captif de la mort.

Il ne reste plus, nous a-t-il dit, que quelques généralités qu'il a dictées en tant que Chef suprême de la Résistance:

Primo: Je suis Jésus Christ Le Messie, la vérité, la vie et la lumière et j'assure que je ne suis point le bien des chrétiens ni leur monopole. Je suis un bien commun de tous les pauvres qui me sont parvenus pour jeter leurs fardeaux accablants. Tout égorgé ou bien expatrié, tout exilé ou bien réfugié, tout pourchassé est mon camarade et tout ceux qui cherchent justice et paix sont mes frères, mes amis et mes compagnons des chemins.

Deuxièmement: J'ordonne que le christianisme doit sortir des églises pour joindre les fosses des assoiffés de la liberté, de la vérité et de la lumière étincelante et c'est pour cette raison que la prière à l'intérieur des murs des églises n'est plus admise.

Priez et chantez vos psaumes tout en combattant et défendant la cause de Dieu, en réalisant le rêve et en lui offrant vie et sang.

Troisièmement: Je ne suis pas venu au monde pour jeter la paix, mais pour dégainer l'épée. Persévérez dans votre combat, et faites taire ceux qui ne cessent pas de se gargariser de l'amour et de la paix alors qu'ils ne sont que fils des ténèbres et de l'impétueuse haine.

Quatrièmement: je ne vais pas rester pour longtemps parmi vous car je vais joindre les phalanges de Ez Eddine El Kassam à Gaza et je vais commencer à me préparer pour la résistance secrète de la Palestine parce que je ne suis au début et en fin de compte qu'un fugitif hors ma patrie et un membre secret des groupes de libération.
Ne dissimulez pas ce que vous venez d'apprendre de son avènement et répandez la nouvelle… Annoncez qu'il est ressuscité encore plus plein d'hostilité pour l'Amérique, Israël et leurs esclaves depuis Mahmoud Abbas jusqu'à Dahlan jusqu'au plus grand des rois et que son système politique est devenu si éclatant qu'il allait soulever maintes difficultés.

Notre Messie est né, le Messie des patriotes arabes, musulmans et chrétiens. Et alors que tu sois le bienvenu, frère et ancien camarade des guerres sacrées…Avec notre grand amour et fierté, nous allons t'élever sur les fronts et entre les yeux et nous allons les suspendre sur la planche: ces pillards et fils des vipères!!!!!

Dr. William Nassar .. Auteur Compositeur musicien et coordonnateur général du Comité supérieur de Jérusalem la capitale de la culture arabe 2009 en dehors de la Palestine occupée...-

Friday, January 09, 2009

The Architecture of Terror: Mapping... The CIA2/MOSSAD/DIA2/AMAN Network Behind 9-11


The Architecture of Terror: Mapping... The CIA2/MOSSAD/DIA2/AMAN Network Behind 9-11...

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The Architecture of Terror: Mapping... The CIA2/MOSSAD/DIA2/AMAN Network Behind 9-11



This chapter of Solving 9-11 reveals a very significant part of the extensive American/Israeli and Zionist criminal networks, which the evidence indicates was behind the crime of the century. The information in this chapter, which comes from material in the public domain, strongly supports the thesis that senior officers from both American and Israeli military intelligence agencies were the chief architects of the false-flag terror of 9-11....and being subservient to the power behind the power in USA....and that is why Israel is an American asset and an American Banana Republic.


The spectacular explosions that accompanied the crashes (WTC 2)
produced light flame and whitish smoke (seen on left spewing from the impact area),
which are indications that Thermite had been pre-placed in the two computer rooms struck. What are the odds that both planes would randomly strike secure computer rooms?


The bizarre explosions that shot out of the east
and north side of WTC 1 came from the two sides of the tower
occupied by the computer room of Marsh Kroll, a Zionist-owned
company that profited greatly from the "War on Terror."
Note the white plume from the east wall and southeast
corner and the lack of a similar burst on the west side of the tower.
The plane struck the middle of the tower. Why the difference?


Solving 9-11




The Architecture of Terror:
The Architecture of Terror Mapping...The CIA2/MOSSAD/DIA2/AMAN Network Behind 9-11


"But now, nearly seven years since 9/11, it's past time to be moving on."
- "Only Dust Remains," New York Post, July 9, 2008


There is no reason good can't triumph over evil, if only angels will get organized along the lines of the Mafia.
- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country, 2005

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered.
- Thomas Paine, The American Crisis, 1776

Thomas Paine was the most popular and inspirational writer of the American Revolution. "The cause of America," Paine wrote in Common Sense (1776), "is in a great measure the cause of all mankind."

In 1787, having "stood out the storm of one revolution," i.e. the American, and with "no wish to embark in another," Paine returned to Europe and wound up playing a role in the French Revolution – and nearly losing his head.

To the Citizens of the United States is a series of letters written by Paine in 1802-03, when he returned to America after an absence of almost 15 years. In the first letter, Paine wrote: "But while I beheld with pleasure the dawn of liberty rising in Europe, I saw with regret the lustre of it fading in America. In less than two years from the time of my departure some distant symptoms painfully suggested the idea that the principles of the Revolution were expiring on the soil that produced them."

"A faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America; they had lost sight of first principles," Paine wrote. "They were beginning to contemplate government as a profitable monopoly, and the people as hereditary property."

Two hundred years later, as an American student of history, I made the same observation: A faction, acting in disguise, was rising in America. This faction also viewed government as a profitable monopoly, which they sought to control. The rising faction I noticed taking control in the 1980s was primarily Jewish by ethnicity and Zionist by ideology....

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http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html

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LIVING IN PNAC ASSASSINS TIMES....CIA2/MOSSAD/DIA2/AMAN...


Ariel Sharon with the kabbalistic hexagram,
the symbol of the Zionist state of Israel.
Sharon, a known terrorist and war criminal,
became prime minister in 2001.

"I want to tell you something very clear. Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, October 2001

After spending several years in Europe, Israel, and the Middle East, I returned to the United States in the late 1970s and found the discourse in the media about Zionism to be extremely one-sided and distorted. Zionism, a racist ideology if ever there was one, was grossly misrepresented in the U.S. mass media as being a progressive and democratic movement of national liberation while Israel was depicted as being a kosher slice of America in the Middle East. It was very clear that the people distorting the view of the Middle East were themselves Jews devoted to the very un-American political and racial agenda called Zionism, the violent and chauvinistic nationalism of Eastern European Jews which has brutally occupied Palestine since 1948.

Honest and unbiased coverage of Israel and the Middle East became increasingly difficult to find in the U.S. during the 1980s and 1990s. The sale of Ted Turner's progressive Cable News Network (CNN) to Gerald Levine of AOL Time Warner and the transformation of the informative Christian Science Monitor marked the end of the last independent and unbiased news outlets covering the Middle East. An ethnic minority group with a foreign agenda – Zionism – had gained monopoly control over the U.S. mass media.

The Jewish monopoly of the U.S. media coincided with the United States being drawn more deeply into the Arab-Israeli conflict as the primary supporter, financier, and political ally of the Zionists. This combination has been extremely detrimental for America and disastrous for the people of the region, as the criminal Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 clearly showed.


U.S. Marines removing the dead
from their bombed barracks in Beirut, 1983.
The U.S. intervention in Lebanon was disastrous
for Americans, Lebanese, and Palestinians.


Aware of the increasing prevalence and dominance of Zionist Jews in the political, financial, and academic sectors, I came to the conclusion that I was living in Jewish times.

As an American raised with traditional Christian values, I realized that the culture I had grown up in was under attack and being reduced to a sub-culture. Through the Jewish-controlled media, a distinctly foreign and anti-Christian culture of pornography, perversion, and violence was being pushed. The producers of this "new culture" were primarily Jews of Eastern European origin. Through their control of the mass media, film, radio, and television networks, a diet of perverse entertainment and un-American values was being force-fed to the unsuspecting American people.

Concurrent with the rise of the Jewish-Zionist faction in the U.S. media was the significant increase in Jewish power in the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Their influence could be seen in the way the U.S. government and federal courts unfairly prosecuted innocent people, including the president of Austria, on unfounded allegations of crimes having been committed decades ago against Jews in distant countries. Meanwhile, there was a noticeable increase in the number and magnitude of crimes committed by Jews in the United States and the international arena that went completely unpunished.

As in the Soviet Union, Jewish criminals in America used the "holocaust" and the slanderous charge of anti-Semitism as a shield to protect their criminal network and extortion rackets by intimidating and silencing those who would dare to expose the monstrous crimes they were involved in. A secret "combination" or Zionist network was clearly at work pulling the strings at the highest level behind the scenes.

THE ISRAELI ARCHITECTS OF 9-11: "It's very good."


Benjamin Netanyahu,
leader of Israel's extreme right-wing Likud,
the party of former Irgun terrorists,
at the Ron Lauder School of Mossad U. (IDC),
Herzliya, 21 January 2008. (AFP/Getty)
"It's very good."
- Benjamin Netanyahu, when asked what 9-11 meant for U.S.-Israeli relations;
New York Times, September 12, 2001.


"We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attack on the Twin Towers and Pentagon, and the American struggle in Iraq."
- Benjamin Netanyahu, as quoted in Ma'ariv, April 16, 2008

The "false-flag" terrorism of 9-11 is a monstrous Jewish-Zionist crime of our time. The true culprits of this heinous crime are clearly being protected by a gang of like-minded Jewish Zionists in the highest positions of the U.S. government, particularly at the U.S. Dept. of Justice and in the federal court system where justice for the victims of 9-11 has been obstructed and delayed for more than 6 years.
The lies and deception about 9-11, spread by the Zionist-controlled media, have been accepted as truth by millions of Americans. Based on a fairy tale spun from the outrageous terror spectacle, a fraudulent "War on Terror," a Zionist construct to attack our cherished American liberties, and at least three extremely costly and illegal wars of aggression in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia, are being waged. Countless thousands of lives have been wasted and more than one thousand billion dollars have been spent on this criminal enterprise and there is still no end in sight to the madness.

The controlled media has completely ignored the evidence of Israeli involvement in 9-11 and refused to investigate any of the unanswered questions about what really happened that day. Likewise, the media has avoided doing any serious investigation of the official version of events, which is simply not believable due to the large number of inconsistencies and complete lack of supporting evidence.

As a result, the public has been left with a confusing mixture of fact, fiction, and disinformation from which the truth is very hard to discern. It is unacceptable for a baseless fairy tale to pass for truth while the real history is suppressed and muddled. Solving 9-11 is my attempt to clarify this muddled history; to find the truth and expose the real culprits.

"But let them go on," Paine wrote about the rising faction of his time, "give them rope enough and they will put an end to their own insignificance. There is too much common sense and independence in America to be long the dupe of any faction, foreign or domestic."

Paine was, however, writing long before television became the most pervasive and powerful thought-control device on the planet. Given the fact that the majority of Americans now rely on television for their news and understanding of world events, I am not so sure that America will not continue to be deceived and manipulated by the Zionist faction that controls the mass media.

The Jewish faction controlling the media and government has done immense and irreparable damage to our republic and national prestige. Today, our once great nation is in dire straits economically, politically, and morally. Absent a revolution or sea change in political thinking, I am not optimistic that there will be any justice for the victims and relatives of 9-11 or that the real culprits will ever be held accountable in a U.S. court.

I am, however, convinced that the truth of 9-11 is of the utmost importance and that the guilty must be exposed. We all need to know who did it and how they did it. The reasons why it was done have become increasingly obvious from the criminal wars of aggression and oppressive "homeland security" apparatus that have followed in its wake.

9-11: THE ISRAELI THESIS

"Consistency is close to being the mark of a set of true beliefs;
it is at least rationally compelling."
- Robin Waterfield on the Socratic dialectic, Plato's Gorgias, 1994

"The worst thing in the world," Socrates said, "the supreme curse, is to do wrong and not pay the penalty for it." I believe that the available evidence and facts are sufficient to disprove the official version and that the truth of 9-11 is within our reach. The guilty must be found.

9-11 is an unsolved crime; the fairy tale promoted by the government and controlled media has not been proven for one simple reason: because it is not provable. Finding the truth about 9-11 requires using the Socratic method to ask questions and develop a thesis from what can be proven to be true.

Since the day it happened, I have been asking questions about Israeli involvement in 9-11 because of the early and clear evidence, made public, of prior knowledge by the five dancing Israelis and members of an Israeli instant messaging network called Odigo. From the beginning, therefore, I considered the possibility that 9-11 was an Israeli-produced false-flag terror spectacle. The Zionists, after all, have a long history of doing these kinds of things.

I investigated and researched to see if the evidence supported this thesis. I found a great deal of evidence consistent with the Israeli thesis, which I have examined for nearly 7 years. I have discovered that agents of Israeli military intelligence or people devoted to the Zionist cause occupied every key position in the 9-11 saga. This consistency has led me to believe that the Israeli thesis is correct.

This chapter of Solving 9-11 reveals a very significant part of the extensive Israeli and Zionist criminal network, which the evidence indicates was behind the crime of the century. The information in this chapter, which comes from material in the public domain, strongly supports the thesis that senior officers from Israeli military intelligence agencies were the chief architects of the false-flag terror of 9-11.

The truth can be deduced from the available facts and evidence, and as Socrates said, "The truth can never be proved wrong."

"THE MAGNITUDE OF PLANNING"

Some day, perhaps, if it's decided that the stories can be told, you'll see that the state [Israel] has been involved in acts which are a thousand times more dirty than anything going on in Colombia. But these things were decided by the government, in cabinet meetings. As long as the government decides to do something, something that the national interest demanded, then it is legitimate. But if an individual wants to do the same thing, it isn't. That's just the way it is. It's very simple.
- Lieut. Gen. Rafael Eitan, Israeli Chief of Staff, 1978-83
"The Colombia Connection," Jerusalem Post, September 1, 1989


In December 2001, I spoke with Eckehardt Werthebach, the former head of the Verfassungsschutz, the domestic branch of German intelligence, about the terror attacks of 9-11. "The deathly precision" and "the magnitude of planning" behind the attacks would have required "years of planning," Werthebach said.

Such a sophisticated operation, he said, would have required the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, something not found in the "loose group" like the one allegedly led by Mohammed Atta while he studied in Hamburg. The nebulous Al Qaida and the Taliban of Afghanistan clearly lacked the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization.

Many people would have been involved in the planning of such an operation and the absence of leaks was a further indication that the attacks were "state organized actions," Werthebach said.

Andreas von Buelow, the former head of the parliamentary commission that oversaw the German intelligence agencies, told me that a sophisticated false-flag operation like 9-11 has an organizational structure with three basic levels: architectural, operational, and working. Atta and the 19 Arabs blamed as the "hijackers" of 9-11 were part of the working level, von Buelow said, and were simply part of the deception. That is, after all, how false-flag terror works.

Von Buelow said that he believed that the Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, was behind the terror attacks of 9-11. These attacks, he said, were designed to turn public opinion against the Arabs, and to boost military and security spending. Six years later, with more than one thousand billion U.S. taxpayer dollars wasted on the fraudulent "war on terror" and the disastrous and costly wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is no question that 9-11 has been crassly exploited to push military and security spending through the roof.

"You don't get the higher echelons," von Buelow said, referring to the "architectural structure," which masterminds such false-flag terror attacks. At this level, he said, the organization doing the planning, such as Mossad, is primarily interested in affecting public opinion. It goes without saying that the mass media must be tightly controlled in order for such large-scale deception to succeed.

"Ninety-five percent of the work of the intelligence agencies around the world is deception and disinformation," von Buelow said, which is widely propagated in the mainstream media creating an accepted version of events. "Journalists don't even raise the simplest questions," he said, adding, "Those who differ are labeled as crazy."

TERROR AS DECEPTION

"Terror is theatre."
- John Le Carré, The Little Drummer Girl, 1983

"Terror is theatre and theatre is illusion" is the theme of The Little Drummer Girl , the realistic novel about Israeli false-flag operations in Europe written by the late John Le Carré.

"On the old reality we impose the new fiction," said Joseph, the Israeli agent in the book engaged in creating a false history for a Palestinian "terrorist" in the same way false histories were created for the 9-11 "hijackers".

"Terror is theatre," another character says. "We inspire, we frighten, we awaken indignation, anger…The guerrilla is the great actor of the world."

Illusion is what theatre is all about, the main character, a British actress, says: "Theatre's a con trick. Do you know what that means? Con trick? You've been deceived."

Le Carré gave a "sincere thanks" to "certain past and serving officers" of Israeli intelligence in his forward to the book. He expressed "special gratitude" to General Shlomo Gazit, the former chief of Israeli military intelligence.

The Israeli characters in The Little Drummer Girl come through without a scratch while Palestinians and Europeans are blown to bits in engineered false-flag terrorism. In one scene, a kidnapped Palestinian is put into the trunk of a car, which is then exploded at a rest area on the German Autobahn.

" 'Disinformation,' we used to call it, designed to misguide the enemy's eye, and very nice too," Picton, the angry and sarcastic British police commander scolds the Mossad agent after viewing the Israeli presentation of fabricated evidence. "But that's too simple for you and Misha. Being a bunch of over-educated fanatics, you've gone one further. 'No dead meat for us, oh no! We'll use live meat. Arab meat. Dutch meat.' So you did. And you blew it up in a nice Mercedes motorcar. Theirs."

Similar Israeli techniques have long been used in "suicide bombs" in occupied Palestine, Iraq, and Afghanistan to kill and maim thousands of innocent people and foment sectarian violence. These terrorist bombings are now routinely blamed on "suicide bombers" – without examining the evidence.

"Of the Palestinians," whose real-life stories informed the plot of The Little Drummer Girl, "some are dead, others are taken prisoner, the rest presumably are for the most part homeless or dispersed," Le Carré wrote in July 1982 as the Israeli military led by the Zionist terrorist and war criminal Ariel Sharon carried out new atrocities on a daily basis in Lebanon.


Thousands of Palestinians were slain
in the Israeli-orchestrated massacre
of Sabra and Shatilla in September 1982.
An Israeli commission found Ariel Sharon
personally responsible.
18 years later, as a known war criminal,
he became prime minister of Israel.

Sharon, a well-known genocidaire from the extreme right-wing Likud party became prime minister of Israel in early 2001 as George W. Bush entered the White House as an un-elected president, creating the same dangerous political and ideological conjunction that had produced the illegal invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

THE "FIXED FRAME" OF 9-11

If one accepts Werthebach's expert judgment that "the magnitude of planning" behind 9-11 required the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, then there should be evidence of such an organization connecting the key players of the operational network behind the crime. If we can only discern some elements or identify some of the key people in this network, we should be able to discover other key people involved in the organization through their mutual connections.

In order to carry out the sophisticated terror attacks of 9-11, the architects would have had to create an organizational structure in the United States over a period of years, or even decades. This structure is needed to connect the key individuals and crucial points of the crime, including those involved in the on-going non-investigation and cover-up. All the bases have to be covered.

The organizational structure is required to provide secure channels or "pipelines" for the criminal organization, the conduits through which the terror operation is set up and carried out. A secure conduit could be a company, a group of people, or even a single individual. The most important thing is that it be wholeheartedly devoted to the organization. When the 9-11 structure was complete and the wiring in place, the switch was thrown and the long-planned terror atrocity became real.

There is simply no evidence whatsoever that any such "Al Qaida" or Islamic terrorist structure ever existed in the United States or that any Muslim or Arab organization was interested in or capable of carrying out such a sophisticated attack. There is, on the other hand, a great deal of evidence that an Israeli military structure, which employed Arab disguises when necessary, is behind 9-11. This network connects the highest officers and veterans of Israeli military intelligence with all the key players, companies, and funding entities involved in setting up the 9-11 attacks.

There is evidence of an Israeli military intelligence matrix connecting every key player and entity behind 9-11. At the most crucial position in U.S. law enforcement, for example, where executive decisions were made concerning the federal non-investigation, sat Michael Chertoff, an Israeli whose mother was one of the first agents of Israeli intelligence. Having the devoted Zionist Michael Chertoff in the key position as Asst. Attorney General controlling the criminal division of the Dept. of Justice gave the Israelis the operational security to carry out this massive crime without fear of exposure or prosecution. Chertoff also played a central role in the prosecution of the 1993 false-flag terror bombing at the World Trade Center.


Michael Chertoff, Homeland Security chief,
is an Israeli through his mother.
As Asst. Attorney General running
the Criminal Division at the Dept. of Justice in 2001,
he supervised the "non-investigation" of 9-11.


Likewise, two dedicated Zionists-cum-federal judges named Alvin K. Hellerstein and Michael B. Mukasey have overseen virtually all the litigation from the massive death and destruction of 9-11 as well as the 1993 false-flag incident at the WTC. Small wonder there has yet to be a single trial for any of the 96 families who chose to seek justice through the courts rather than accept the government pay-out for the loss of their loved ones. Less than two months before the 7th anniversary of 9-11, fewer than 7 of the original 96 cases remain to be settled and still no trial is planned for any of the victims of 9-11. This can hardly be called justice for the relatives. As they say, "Justice delayed is justice denied."

The appalling absence of any significant investigation or discovery, the egregious acts of confiscation and criminal destruction of evidence, the escape or removal of all Israeli suspects, and the use of unwarranted secrecy measures to block discovery in the federal investigation and litigation processes of the worst terror attack in U.S. history, all indicate the presence of an Israeli-based terror structure being protected from exposure.

It stands to reason that the terror network being protected by high-level Zionist agents is itself a Zionist structure. If it were truly an Arabic, Islamic, or even American criminal network, it would have been exposed long ago. The fact that the terror network behind 9-11 has been protected from the beginning by Zionist agents and the controlled media strongly suggests it is something they are dedicated and devoted to.

There were certainly early and clear indications of Israeli involvement, particularly in the form of the five dancing Israelis and the instant messages conveyed, presumably in Hebrew, on the Israeli-owned Odigo text messaging system which warned recipients of an imminent terror attack at the World Trade Center.

MICHAEL GOFF, THE PTECH "CUT-OUT" & GUARDIUM

The Ptech story is a crucial piece of 9/11 because the software was used to simultaneously coordinate the FAA with NORAD and the Secret Service.
- Jamey Hecht, "Ptech, 9/11, and USA-Saudi Terror,"
FTW Publications

Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the basement of the FAA for two years prior to 9/11. Their specific job is to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force in the case of an emergency. If anyone was in a position to know that the FAA -- that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software or to change anything -- it would have been Ptech along with MITRE.
- Indira Singh, "Risk Architect"
9/11 Citizens’ Commission, Sept. 9, 2004


Indira Singh and others
pushed the false "Arab terror" story
by linking Ptech to a wrongly accused Saudi.
Who was really behind this disinformation campaign?

My discovery in 2005 that the Ptech software company from Quincy, Mass., was actually a disguised Israeli intelligence operation is key to understanding the role of Israeli military intelligence in the crimes of 9-11. This is a discovery that has helped reveal other key people in the Israeli network behind the crime.


Michael Goff - the Ptech "cut-out"

Michael Goff was the key person at Ptech when it was founded in 1994. Goff, a young Zionist lawyer from Worchester, Massachusetts, subsequently worked for Guardium, an Israeli software company tied to military intelligence. This is the crucial connection that has helped expose the larger Israeli military intelligence network working behind the 9-11 scene.

Through Goff's connection to Guardium we can see how a nexus of senior officers of Israeli military intelligence agencies links all the key elements of 9-11. This connection also explains how dodgy Israeli enterprise spy software wound up on critical U.S. government and military computer networks.

Ptech is the allegedly Arab-owned and Saudi-financed company whose enterprise software found its way onto the most critical computer networks of the U.S. government and military. By 2002, Ptech reportedly provided software to more than 18 federal agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Treasury, Customs Service, Secret Service, Department of Energy, Army, Navy, Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Postal Service – and even NATO.

Investigators from the U.S. Customs Service searched Ptech's office on December 6, 2002. Federal authorities were reportedly concerned about Ptech's ties to a Saudi named Yassin Al-Qadi (a.k.a. Al-Kadi). Qadi's name had been added to the UN blacklist on October 19, 2001. Daniel Glaser, a Jewish deputy assistant secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury, described Al-Qadi in Congressional testimony in 2004 as a "key terrorist financier and facilitator."

In December 2007, after an investigation that lasted six years and two months, Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi was exonerated of all charges by judicial authorities in Switzerland. Al-Qadi's funds had been unfairly frozen for six years based merely on the reckless accusations of Daniel Glaser, an irresponsible Zionist at the U.S. Treasury who went on to negotiate the freezing and thawing of North Korean funds.


Daniel Glaser, Deputy Asst. Secretary of Treasury,
in Beijing, Dec. 2006; In 2001, Glaser supervised
Dept. of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.
He represents America?

How a Lebanese Muslim immigrant funded by a Saudi suspected of being "a sponsor of terrorism" ever sold enterprise software to the entire U.S. government is never addressed by those, like Indira Singh, who promoted the post 9-11 myth that Ptech was a central part of the Arab nexus of terror. Miss Singh herself is a bit of a mystery. Why did she promote the Arab terrorism story without any evidence other than baseless accusations made by Zionist officials in the U.S. Treasury?

My discovery that Goff was actually the key person at Ptech; that he was Ptech's original marketing director; and that he was the person responsible for "procuring" software for Ptech should have demolished the Arab myth. My revelation that Goff was working for Guardium, a software company run by Israeli military intelligence officers, however, was ignored by the "whistle blowers" who had pushed the Arab myth as well as by supposedly non-partisan investigators of 9-11.

The Ptech-Guardium connection through Michael Goff is a key link to the terror structure behind 9-11. Ptech enterprise software, which has spy, surveillance, and intervention capabilities, according to "experts" like Singh, was running on nearly every U.S. government computer network at the time of 9-11. Goff, who had personally been responsible for procuring all software for the "Arab-owned" Ptech and for marketing Ptech's enterprise software, went on to work for Guardium, a company that is a branch of the research and development department of the Israeli Air Force.

Why did Goff suddenly leave his law practice and how did he get placed at Ptech, where he became a software professional making managerial decisions about what software an Arab-owned software company would use? This simply doesn't make sense. And what about his business connection with Israeli military intelligence?

WHO IS GUARDIUM?

Guardium is a spin-off of Log-On Software, an Israeli military intelligence company based in Ramat Gan, Israel. Log-On Software was founded by Major Gil Migdan and Joseph Segev, the former head programmer and telecommunications officer for the Israeli Navy. The vice president of the company is Danny Zeitouny, the head of logistics programming for the Israeli military, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

One of the directors of Guardium is Gill Zaphrir (a.k.a. Zafrir), an Israeli colonel who "headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force."


Col. Gil Zafrir of Guardium
headed R&D for Israel Air Force

In its "Executive Profile" about Col. Zaphrir, Business Week says:

Mr. Gill Zaphrir is a Partner at Veritas Venture Partners. He joined Veritas in 1999 and has been actively managing the funds of Veritas. Mr. Zaphrir has research and development and management experience in Israel's air force and aerospace industry. Prior to joining Veritas in 1999, he headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force. In 1987, Mr. Zaphrir served as System Engineer on the first Israeli satellite project, under the auspices of IAI-MBT.

Mr. Zaphrir is a Director of Bamboo Mediacasting Inc., and Guardium Inc. He was a Director of eShip-4u Inc. He was born and raised in Israel, served as a military navigator in the Israel Air Force and is a Colonel (reserve). Mr. Zaphrir holds a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion in Haifa and an M.B.A. from Bar-Ilan Business School in Israel.

Another founder and director of Guardium is Amit Yoran, the Israeli who went to West Point and became the manager of computer network security for the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense. Yoran went on to serve as the "czar" of cyber security for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.


Amit Yoran, a high-level Israeli "hacker"
tied to military intelligence,
designed computer security for the Pentagon,
Air Force, and U.S. government.

Business Week says this about "Dr. Yoran":

Dr. [Amit] Yoran is a Co-Founder of Guardium, Inc. and also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Riptech Inc, which Dr. Yoran co-founded in 1998.

He was appointed by George W. Bush as the administration's Cyber Chief, responsible for coordinating the nation's activities in cyber security. Prior to this, Dr. Yoran served as a Vice President for worldwide-managed security services at Symantec Corp. and was primarily responsible for managing security infrastructure in 40 countries.

Before working in the private sector, he served as a Network Security Manager at the Department of Defense and [was] responsible for maintaining operations of the Pentagon's network. Dr. Yoran also served as an officer in the United States Air Force [as the Director of Vulnerability Programs for Dept. of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team]. He designed security architecture for the Pentagon and Office of the Secretary of Defense networks' backbones.

Dr. Yoran served as a Director at Guardium, Inc. and Director of the Vulnerability Assessment and Assistance Program for the U.S. Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team. As a Director, he worked with national and international law enforcement and intelligence organizations to prevent and respond to security breaches of national infrastructure networks.

He serves as a Member of the Adjunct Faculty at George Washington University. Dr. Yoran has conducted a Doctoral research in the area of Intrusion Detection Technologies.

Michael Goff's working relationship with Amit Yoran and the Israeli intelligence operation known as Guardium, Inc. is an excellent example of an Israeli military intelligence "channel" in the United States. I don't have specific information about exactly when Goff's relationship with Israeli military intelligence began, but I would assume it began sometime prior to 1994 when he suddenly left his law practice and began working "for the Arabs" at Ptech.

Goff's father and grandfather were both highest-level Freemasons in the International (Jewish) Order of the B'nai B'rith (a.k.a. Benai Berith), an exclusive Jewish-Zionist (i.e. closed to non-Jews) order of Freemasons founded in New York City in 1843.

SON OF BENAI BERITH

The B'nai B'rith is a secretive, but extremely powerful and influential order of Freemasonry. It is, for example, the parent organization of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith (ADL), which has a great deal of influence with legislators and law enforcement agencies across America. It is also the parent of Hillel, an organization for Jewish students found on virtually every college campus in the United States. The New York Times can be also be called a B'nai B'rith newspaper due to its ownership by the Sulzberger family, one of the leading families of B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 1 in New York City.

Goff's relationship with the Israelis who created Guardium appears to have been the channel through which Israeli spy software was provided to Ptech. The resulting Israeli-Ptech enterprise spy software was then installed onto the most critical computer networks of the U.S. government in the years prior to 9-11.

"The boy's job in this operation is to play cut-out," the Mossadnik in The Little Drummer Girl says. "That's all he does. He breaks the circuit." In real life, Goff played the "cut-out" at Ptech; he was the connection between the Israeli military programmers and the crucial computer networks of the U.S. military.

At the time that Goff worked for Ptech, Yoran was Network Security Manager at the Dept. of Defense designing computer security for the Pentagon. In this position, Yoran was ideally situated to arrange the installment of Ptech software onto the critical computer systems of the U.S. military. The Israeli nexus between Michael Goff, Ptech, Guardium, and Amit Yoran provides a logical explanation for how Israeli-cum-Ptech enterprise "spy" software wound up on the critical computer networks of the U.S. government and military.

Guardium is closely connected with other companies of the Israeli military intelligence network in the United States. Some of the key Israeli-run companies linked to Guardium are Amdocs, ViryaNet, Nice Systems, and CreoScitex. Like Guardium, these companies are all run by senior officers of Israeli military intelligence.

Amdocs and Nice Systems are especially noteworthy because these two companies were involved in the espionage network of computer programmers and demolition experts from the Israeli military who posed as art students as they tried to infiltrate offices of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 2000 and 2001, according to a leaked DEA document from the summer of 2001 concerning this spying activity.

The "most activity" of the Israeli operation aimed at infiltrating offices of the DEA was "reported in the state of Florida," according to the report. "The Hollywood, Florida area seems to be a central point for these individuals with several having addresses in this area," the DEA report said. Hollywood is also the area which connected 15 of the 19 Arab "hijackers" of 9-11. If the "art student" operation is connected to 9-11, as it seems to be, then Amdocs and Nice Systems are also involved.

"A majority of those [Israeli "art students"] questioned has stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordinance units. Some have been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot missile unit. That these people are now travelling in the U.S. selling art seems not to fit their background," the U.S. DEA investigators concluded. What an understatement!

"SPECIALIZED IN DEMOLITION"

One of the Israeli agents was 27-year-old Lt. Peer Segalovitz, a platoon leader with Israeli special forces 605 battalion in the Golan Heights. Segalovitz and the 80-man platoon he commanded "specialized in demolition."

"Segalovitz acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars and anything else that he needed too," according to the report. If the Israeli "art student" intelligence operation is connected to 9-11, then the prevalence of military computer programmers and demolition experts among the agents would make sense given the evidence that the terror attacks of 9-11 required a great deal of expertise with computer networks and explosives.

NICE SYSTEMS

Nice Systems, Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of an Israeli company with the same name, was headed by Brig. General Shlomo Shamir from April 2001 when he became President and Chief Executive Officer. This is the precisely the time when Israeli employees of Nice Systems and Amdocs were caught trying to infiltrate Drug Enforcement Agency and other U.S. government buildings posing as art students. Gen. Shamir certainly must have been aware that his employees had been sent to the United States where they were arrested for illegal spying activity prior to 9-11.


Brig. Gen. Shlomo Shamir

Brig. Gen. Shamir "built and led the planning division in the IDF [Israeli military] headquarters and served as Israel’s military attaché to Germany" until 1994, when he began working at Scitex America Corp., which he headed from 1997 and which later became CreoScitex America, Inc.

Avinoam Naor Aharonovich, one of the founders of Amdocs, was President and CEO of Amdocs Management Ltd., the company's management group from 1995 to 2002. As Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, Naor had overall coordination responsibility for the operations and activities of the company's operating subsidiaries.


Avinoam Naor Aharonovich of Amdocs

A number of senior corporate officers of Amdocs, all Israelis, moved between Nice Systems, ViryaNet Ltd., and Guardium. Sometimes a person would go to a company for a while and then return to the previous company. In some cases, such as with Gill Zaphrir, a person would be involved in an Israeli "venture capital" fund supporting a company while serving as a director of the company he is funding.


Elad Yoran

Elad Yoran [a.k.a. Naftali Yoran], Amit's older brother, held similar dual positions at Broadview International and Riptech, his brother's company that specialized in hacking into corporate computer networks while selling them Riptech's "security" software.

AMIT YORAN'S "ETHICAL HACKERS"

"Mr. [Amit] Yoran is chief executive of Riptech, a U.S. company that employs 'ethical hackers' to test vulnerability of networks, including those of utility companies," the Irish Times reported on October 5, 2001. "He [Yoran] says his teams have had success in disrupting utilities' power networks, in Europe particularly," according to the article, which was aptly titled, "Welcome to the Art of Electronic Warfare."

The Yorans' company hacked into the computer networks of dozens of energy companies, the Los Angeles Times reported on August 20, 2001:

Riptech Inc., a security company in Alexandria, Va., has tested security for dozens of energy-industry clients. In every case, the firm penetrated Internet-connected corporate networks and often hopped from those networks into supposedly sealed grid-control systems, according to Riptech's president, Amit Yoran.

In February 2001, Amit Yoran, then chief executive of Riptech, told the Associated Press that hackers often break into a system through a computer that runs a Web site. "Once you break in (to the Web server), there are fewer protections between it and other parts of the network," Yoran said.


Elad Yoran, Tim Belcher, and Amit Yoran,
the senior hackers of Riptech

Riptech "was founded by Elad and Amit Yoran, two Israeli West Point graduates who claim years of security experience, and Tim Belcher, a Desert Storm veteran who serves as the company's chief technology officer," the Washington Times reported on December 11, 2000. "Amit Yoran reportedly helped design the Pentagon's computer security architecture," the Times reported.

"The threat changes every day. There has always been and always will be a criminal element out there. [The crooks] are not going away," said Elad Yoran, the company's chief financial officer. He should know. He was Riptech's chief marketing officer and vice president for business development at the time of 9-11.

"Riptech's specialty is in security management and monitoring of corporate computer networks," the Washington Times reported on October 23, 2000, when the Yoran brothers' private company of "ethical hackers" announced an infusion of $23 million in venture capital.

Oddly, the Washington Times reported that Elad Yoran had "joined" Riptech in August 2001, when he had already been the company's vice president for two years: "Elad Yoran joined Riptech as executive vice president for corporate development and chief marketing officer. Mr. Yoran was a vice president with Broadview International," the Times reported on August 6, 2001.

But, nearly two years earlier, on October 25, 1999, the Washington Times reported: "Elad Yoran has joined RipTech Inc., an information security application service provider in Alexandria, as executive vice president. Before joining RipTech, Mr. Yoran was a senior associate with Broadview, an investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions for information technology and media companies."

In both cases it was reported that Yoran had been a vice president with Broadview, one of the mysterious funding entities of Riptech, prior to joining Riptech. Elad Yoran was clearly performing two functions for Riptech: funding the company through his position as "vice president at Broadview International," an unknown source of funds that poured millions of dollars into Riptech, and as "executive vice president" of Riptech, the privately-held recipient company he co-founded with his brother in 1998.

It is through such secretive "venture capital" funding entities like Broadview and Veritas Venture Partners that the hand of Israeli military intelligence can be clearly seen running the computer network "security" companies they have spawned, like Guardium.

Before becoming a director of Guardium, for example, Col. Gill Zafrir was "actively managing the funds of Veritas," and funding Guardium. Prior to joining Veritas in 1999, Col. Zaphrir "headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force."

SECURITY GROWTH PARTNERS

Elad Yoran is also the CEO and founder of a similar funding company called Security Growth Partners (SGP). The SGP website says this about the company's mission:

Security Growth Partners’ (SGP) mission is to support companies that provide security solutions for the security market. SGP serves a large and diverse industry including, among others, information technology (IT) security, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), homeland security and their related markets.

SGP is more than a fund or typical venture capital organization. We identify desirable opportunities and become extensively involved in the strategy and operations of each company with which we work.

Rather than simply invest, we capitalize on both our extensive expertise and experience in the security sector and our strong network of contacts to help management grow their businesses.

The founder of SGP, Elad Yoran, "advises leading companies in the security market and helps guide emerging companies with innovative technology to rapid growth. Mr. Yoran also advises government and infrastructure organizations on security and business risk matters."

The list of Elad Yoran's advisors and partners at SGP is very interesting. It includes his brother Amit Yoran, of course, and previously included another Israeli named Ilan Juran, which is another spelling of the same Israeli name.

Ilan Juran works at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Juran is director of the US-Israel Civil Infrastructure Security Program, an initiative of the Urban Utility Center, which he is "executive director" of. Juran's program is "designed to foster collaboration, as well as knowledge and technology sharing, between the U.S. and Israel governments and critical infrastructure organizations."


Ilan Juran

Tim Belcher, a co-founder of Riptech, the company of "ethical hackers," is another advisor at SGP. As Belcher's biographical sketch says:

Mr. Belcher has also conducted security assessments of some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure components, including the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control Network. He has also worked with government organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Space and Naval Warfare Command.

THE KROLL CONNECTION

It is interesting to note that Jeremy M. Kroll, the Managing Director of Marsh Kroll, is also on the "advisory board" of Elad Yoran's Security Growth Partners. This is a crucial connection in the Zionist network behind 9-11; this is where we hit the mainline.


Jeremy Kroll of Marsh Kroll

Kroll, the son of Jules B. Kroll, has been an executive at Marsh Kroll, a division of Marsh & McLennan Co. (MMC), since 1996. Jeremy Kroll's connection with Elad and Amit Yoran through SGP reveals a key link between the American Zionist network and Israeli military intelligence.

MMC is headed by Jeffrey Greenberg, the son of Maurice Raymond Greenberg (a.k.a. "Hank"). Maurice Greenberg, the CEO of A.I.G., has been a business partner with Jules B. Kroll since 1993 when he reportedly bought 23 percent of Kroll Inc. for $15 million. In 2004 MMC acquired the rest of Kroll for the hugely inflated price of $1.9 billion. Jules Kroll reportedly retired in July 2008.


Jeffrey Greenberg is CEO of MMC.
The first plane flew directly into his company's computer room.
What an amazing coincidence - or was it?

KROLL SECURITY AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER

Kroll Associates was responsible for "revamping security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 terrorist bombing," Douglas Frantz of the New York Times reported in 1994. This is a crucial point because those who controlled security at the WTC are prime suspects in the demolition of the twin towers. It was directly into the computer room of Marsh (Kroll) USA in the North Tower that the first plane struck, or was precision-guided, on 9-11. The light orange flame and whitish smoke that exploded out of burning computer room of Marsh USA are indicative of a Thermite reaction. Burning jet fuel produces darker orange flames and blackish smoke.

John O'Neill, the former chief of counterterrorism with the FBI, who had investigated Al Qaida, was the head of security for the World Trade Center complex, and was reportedly killed on his first day of work on 9-11. O'Neill had been appointed to this position by the managing director of the Kroll security company, Jerome M. Hauer. Kroll evidently continued to manage security for the WTC complex from 1993 until 9-11.


Jerome Hauer (left), the first director
of Giuliani's Office of Emergency
Management and the person who chose
to locate the command bunker in WTC 7.

Prior to joining Kroll, Hauer, a Zionist Jew, had been the director of Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), where he had been the driving force to have the OEM command bunker built in Larry Silverstein's 47-story WTC 7, the tower which fell into its footprint at 5:21 p.m. on 9-11. Testimony from Larry Silverstein and physical evidence strongly suggest that WTC 7 was demolished with explosives and Thermite.

HISTORY OF ISRAELI "SECURITY" AT PORT AUTHORITY

There is a very significant, but little-known history of senior Israeli intelligence officers seeking to gain control of security of New York airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, and the World Trade Center in the 1980s. Being in charge of security at the twin towers was obviously crucial to the 9-11 operation. The explosive charges and Thermite that evidently demolished the three towers could not have possibly been placed in the buildings without the perpetrators having complete control of security.

Getting control of security at the WTC was something senior officers of Israeli military intelligence had actively sought since at least 1987. This was clearly part of the Israeli master plan for 9-11, a plan first articulated in 1979 by Isser Harel, the former head of Israeli intelligence (Director Shin Bet, 1948–1952; Director Mossad, 1947-1963).

Harel, formerly the director of Haganah intelligence in the 1940s, is seen as the founder of Israeli intelligence. The Haganah and Irgun were the largest Zionist militia/terrorist organizations in Palestine prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. Both organizations were involved in the terror bombing of the King David Hotel and other acts of terrorism.

Harel was evidently involved in the long-term planning of 9-11. More than 20 years earlier he had told Michael D. Evans, an American Zionist missionary, that terrorism would "come to America." Arab terrorists would strike the tallest building in New York City, "a symbol of your fertility," Harel said.


Michael D. Evans is a hard-line Zionist Jew
who poses as a Christian. Here Evans embraces
Menachem Begin, the former terrorist head of the Irgun
who ordered the bombing of the King David Hotel.
Isser Harel told Evans of the plan to bomb the World Trade Center
in 1979, about the time of this photo.

Evans, a Jewish Zionist who has long had close ties to Israeli officials, wrote about Harel's prediction of 9-11 in several newspaper articles and talked about it in an interview that followed the publication of his 2004 book entitled The American Prophecies, Terrorism and the Mid-East Conflict Reveal a Nation's Destiny.

Note: Harel's 9-11 prediction is discussed in greater detail in the previous chapter entitled "America the Target."

Harel had dinner with Evans on September 23, 1979, according to Evans, and told him that America's alliance with Saudi Arabia "was dangerous and would develop a tolerance for terror among Americans." Harel went on to say that "Islamic fundamentalists would ultimately strike America."

HAREL'S AMAZING PREDICTION OF 9-11

When Evans asked where the Arab terrorists would strike, Harel said: "In Islamic theology, the phallic symbol is very important. Your biggest phallic symbol is New York City and your tallest building will be the phallic symbol they will hit." Now, how did Harel know that, in 1979, if he was not part of it?


Isser Harel,
founder of Israeli intelligence

"Isser Harel prophesied that the tallest building in New York would be the first building hit by Islamic fundamentalists 21 years ago," Evans said in the 2004 interview; how amazingly prescient – or telling.

Seven years after Harel's bizarre prediction, a team of senior Israeli intelligence agents, men who had worked directly under Isser Harel for decades, obtained the security contract for the Port Authority of New York, the agency that owned and operated the World Trade Center. The Israeli false-flag terror of 9-11, designed to create the "War on Terror" and drag the United States into the Israeli-Arab conflict on the side of Israel, was evidently planned decades in advance.

A team of senior Israeli intelligence veterans, men who had worked under Harel since the founding of Israeli intelligence, obtained the security contract for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (PA) in 1987, according to a Washington Post article from April 12, 1987. The Port Authority manages operations at New York's airports, as it did at the World Trade Center prior to the complex being leased to Larry Silverstein in late July, 2001.

The contract with an Israeli "security" company called Atwell Security of Tel Aviv was cancelled after the PA learned that the firm was headed by Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor, the former head of the Israel's General Security Service (GSS), a.k.a. Shabak or Shin Bet. The Atwell company appears to have been created only for the purpose of obtaining the security contract for the Port Authority and the World Trade Center.


Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor

Avraham Bendor, or Ben-Dor (a.k.a. Abe, Avrum, or Avram Shalom) had been forced to resign as head of the GSS, which he ran from 1980 to 1986, following the disclosure that he had ordered the execution of two detained Palestinian bus hijackers by having their skulls smashed with stones, and then lied about it.

"Avrum lied and kept lying," a senior security official involved in the Bus 300 affair told the Jerusalem Post in 1995. "He failed because he was too sure of himself and too used to hearing how great he was."

Shalom, the head of the GSS, was identified by an Israeli Justice Ministry report in December 1986 as having ordered the murder and subsequent cover-up of the two Palestinian bus hijackers captured in 1984. Shalom and 10 other Shin Bet agents were forced to resign, although President Chaim Hertzog subsequently granted them all pardons.

Shalom corrupted the GSS, as well: "Some of the vices of the Shalom regime still plague the GSS," the Post reported in 1995. "One problem…is the lack of parliamentary control over the GSS." This is a very important observation because it indicates that the Shin Bet under Shalom had become a rogue agency and had a history of being out of control. "The most disturbing trend is the recurring episodes in which GSS agents provide misleading information to officials and the courts," the Post reported.

"The head of Shabak [GSS] has an unusual personal relationship with Prime Minister Shamir, partly perhaps because of Shamir's own past in the espionage business," the Jerusalem Post wrote in June 1991. Shalom had ordered the murders but tried to blame a senior army officer at the scene and later claimed that Shamir had given him a free hand. The former Irgun and Lehi terrorist Yitzhak Shamir (born Jaziernicki in Belarus) was the prime minister responsible for Shin Bet at the time.


Yitzhak Shamir was a leader from the extreme right-wing Likud.
After joining the Irgun terrorist group in 1935, he joined its
most militant faction, Lehi, in 1940. He personally authorized
the assassination of the UN representative in the Middle East,
the Swedish Count Folke Bernadotte, in September 1948.
Inset is Shamir's son, Yair.

Edward J. O'Sullivan, director of the office of special plans at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, simply said that the contract with Atwell Security of Tel Aviv had been terminated because "we are no longer satisfied with the agreement," the Washington Post reported in April 1987.

O'Sullivan said the port authority's legal office told him not to comment on why he was killing the contract. O'Sullivan said he acted after a reporter inquired about the contract and Atwell's president, Avraham Bendor, acknowledged that he was also known as Avraham Shalom. Atwell, a subsidiary of the Eisenberg Group [Shaul Eisenberg of the Mossad], had been chosen "largely on the basis of Bendor's credentials," O'Sullivan said.

Use of aliases in Israeli intelligence is common, the Washington Post reported. "One intelligence expert said that even Bendor may not be the former Shin Bet chief's real name."

A New York-based senior Israeli intelligence officer, Peter [Zvi] Malkin, had acted as a New York representative for Atwell Security of Tel Aviv in the negotiations with the PA, O'Sullivan said. Malkin is famous for being the Mossad agent who grabbed Adolf Eichmann during the Israeli kidnapping in Argentina in 1960.

The executives running the Port Authority in 1987, the mayor, and his first deputy, all Zionist Jews, certainly must have been aware of the PA decision to hire a company run by a senior Mossad agent to provide security for New York's airports, ports, commuter trains, and World Trade Center under its authority. The people who made the decision to give the security contract to Avraham Bendor's Atwell Security of Tel Aviv must have known that Zvi Malkin was a senior Mossad agent; they had negotiated with him, after all.

The executive director of the Port Authority in 1987 was Stephen Berger (1985-1990). As executive director of the PA, one of the world's largest transportation agencies, Berger was described by Thomas J. Lueck of the New York Times in August 1987 as "a man at the center of New York City's economy, deftly pulling strings in business and government alike." Today, Berger is Chairman of Odyssey Investment Partners, a private New York investment firm that specializes in private corporate transactions. Berger, a Jew, is a member of the board of New York's Citizens Budget Commission (CBC) with fellow Zionist Jews Larry Silverstein and Felix Rohatyn.


Stephen Berger;
director of the Port Authority
when Atwell Security, a Mossad company,
received the security contract in 1987.

Prior to becoming director of the Port Authority, Berger was a principal with Odyssey Partners (1983-85) with Leon Levy and Jack Nash, both Zionist Jews. Before joining Odyssey Partners, Berger had been Director of Corporate Development at Oppenheimer & Co., where Nash and Levy had been "senior-most partners."

Levy was "a hedge fund pioneer" who founded Odyssey Partners LP with Jack Nash in 1982. "Odyssey's leverage buyouts (LBOs) and other investments reveal a pattern of slash-and-burn management and financial opportunism," Brooks Bitterman, Research Director for Local 100 of the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union in New York, wrote in September 1995. "And with Stephen Berger's return to Odyssey Partners in July of 1993, the firm has been reinvigorating its LBO investing business," Bitterman wrote.

Philip D. Kaltenbacher, a former running mate of Governor Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey, was the chairman of the Port Authority's Board of Commissioners from 1985 to 1990. Prior to becoming a PA commissioner in 1983, Kaltenbacher had been Chairman of the New Jersey Republican State Committee. Kaltenbacher's father, Joseph, was a founder of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Jewish Committee and a former member of the national board of governors of the AJC, a major Zionist organization.

Stanley Brezenoff, who later became executive director of the PA in 1990, was Deputy Mayor for Operations and First Deputy Mayor under Mayor Edward Irving Koch (1978-89) at the time the Port Authority's security contract was being negotiated with a senior Mossad agent. Brezenoff was "the second most powerful official in the Koch adminstration and was the government's chief operating officer, often serving as acting Mayor in Mr. Koch's absence," according to the New York Times.

Brezenoff directed the day-to-day operations of city agencies, including police, fire, and transportation. It is hard to imagine that Brezenoff, whose Yiddish-speaking grandparents had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s from Russia and Austria, was unaware of the deal to give the PA security contract to Atwell Security of Tel Aviv. Malkin was, after all, a legendary figure among the Zionist Jews of New York.

Malkin was one of the Israeli intelligence agents involved in the kidnapping of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires in 1960. Malkin later wrote a book entitled Eichmann In My Hands, about his role in the kidnapping. It was none other than Isser Harel, then head of the Mossad, who had sent Malkin and six others on the mission to find Eichmann, where previous agents had failed. Harel had worked closely with Shimon Peres and Teddy Kollek in the pre-state Haganah militia of the 1940s when they had been responsible for procuring weapons and smuggling them to Zionist forces.

MOSSAD: AMERICA IS THE ENEMY

Other agents on the seven-person Mossad team involved in the Eichmann kidnapping were Avraham Shalom Ben-Dor and Rafael "Dirty Rafi" Eitan, the senior Mossadnik [not the Chief of Staff with the same name], who ran the Jonathan Pollard espionage operation against the United States in the 1980s. Eitan later told the Israeli press that he had been made a scapegoat to cover for Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Shamir, senior Israeli politicians who knew about Eitan's espionage network in America, but defended themselves - and the State of Israel - by saying it was "a rogue operation."

Eitan headed a special spying unit known as the Scientific Liaison Office and directed a team of agents working out of the Israeli Embassy in Washington when the Pollard spy operation was exposed in 1985. For Eitan, a minister in the current Israeli government and member of the cabinet, the United States has always been considered "the enemy."


Rafi Eitan, Mossad spymaster,
advisor to Fidel Castro, and Israeli cabinet minister

That Eitan, a senior Israeli intelligence officer and member of the Israeli cabinet, would say to one of Israel's largest daily newspapers in 1997 that the United States is an enemy of Israel, and that his position would not be challenged, is something that, unfortunately, very few Americans understand.

"I failed in the Pollard affair, just as I failed in other intelligence operations beyond enemy lines," Eitan told the newspaper Yediot Aharonot in June 1997. "That is the lot of an intelligence officer who runs complex intelligence operations. When you work a lot and do a lot, especially in the intelligence field, you win some and you lose some," he said.

"Nobody knows either about your successes or your failures. It doesn't cause a fuss. But this was a big fuss. You take such a possibility into consideration, but there is nothing you can do about it."

"I'm surprised he would admit this," Joseph diGenova, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted the case, said. "But this is basically all stuff that the evidence in the case shows."

DiGenova said Eitan's statement was unusual in that it contradicted the "official Israeli position" that the Pollard case had been an unauthorized "rogue" operation, and in that Eitan "does not refer to the United States as an ally, which is regrettable."

Eitan's statement about the Pollard operation being an operation "beyond enemy lines" reveals the truth about how senior Israeli intelligence veterans view the Israeli-U.S. relationship, something DiGenova seems unable or unwilling to grasp or articulate.

Eitan said he has close relations with senior Cuban leaders, including Fidel Castro, and has helped develop the Cuba's agricultural infrastructure with Israeli irrigation equipment, chemicals, pesticides and fertilizers, along with agricultural advisers.

According to Eitan, the 10 Israelis actively doing business in Cuba for the past five years [1992-97] "have more influence than Russia had in the last 30 years."

The business has developed Cuba's corn, citrus fruit and tomato farming for export, and Eitan represented "a long list of Isareli companies in Cuba."

"We are changing agriculture in Cuba," Eitan said, adding that his business violated the U.S. embargo and had made U.S. officials "very angry."

He declined to identify his business partners in Cuba, citing a U.S. law that penalizes foreigners doing business in Cuba who use confiscated American property.

Eitan's revealing comments were published in the Washington Times of June 22, 1997.

WHO IS ZVI MALKIN?

Peter Malkin (a.k.a. Zvi Malchin or Milchman) was born in Poland in 1928 and raised in British-occupied Palestine during the mandate period. At age 12, Malkin joined the Haganah, the Zionist underground militia. In 1950, he joined the Shin Bet, the Israeli security agency. He became an explosives specialist and was known as a master of disguises.

Malkin preferred international work and became chief of operations for the Israeli intelligence agency, the Mossad. "During foreign postings, Malkin posed as an artist," his March 3, 2005, obituary in the New York Sun said.

A very young Malkin "retired" as head of operations of the Mossad in 1976 and moved to New York, where he worked as "a security consultant" and "posed as an artist." His "security consultant" work clearly involved brokering the security contract for the Port Authority and the World Trade Center - for the Mossad. Malkin had not retired from the Mossad; he'd gone undercover.

Malkin's artist disguise is probably the inspiration for the "art student" operation to infiltrate DEA offices in 2001. It is interesting to note that Michael Chertoff's mother, Livia Eisen, one of the first Mossad agents, owned an art gallery in Elizabeth, New Jersey, when Malkin was posing as a painter in nearby New York. These "retired" Mossad "ar