Tuesday 24 November 2015

Supporting terrorists, Turkey shoots down Russian plane

by crescent-online

November, 2015

Turkey's shooting down of a Russian plane over Syria has dangerously escalated tensions in an already volatile region. Fearing its consequences, Turkey has also requested a meeting of Nato ambassadors. This exposes Nato and its allies' support for the terrorists in Syria. No amount of rhetoric can camouflage this fact.

Beirut, Crescent-online
Tuesday November 24, 2015, 10:07 EST

Monday 23 November 2015

Bashar Al-Assad Interview: “Al Qaeda was Created by the Americans With the Help of Saudi Wahhabi Money”. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar Support ISIS

Damascus, SANA-President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to Italian TV channel RAI UNOBelow you will find the full transcript of this interview:
Question 1: Mr. President, thanks for the opportunity of talking to you. Let’s start from Paris. How did you react to the news coming from Paris?
President Assad: We can start by saying it’s a horrible crime, and at the same time it’s a sad event when you hear about innocents being killed without any reason and for nothing, and we understand in Syria the meaning of losing a dear member of the family or a dear friend, or anyone you know, in such a horrible crime. We’ve been suffering from that for the past five years. We feel for the French as we feel for the Lebanese a few days before that, and for the Russians regarding the airplane that’s been shot down over Sinai, and for the Yemenis maybe, but does the world, especially the West, feel for those people, or only for the French? Do they feel for the Syrians that have been suffering for five years from the same kind of terrorism? We cannot politicize feeling, feeling is not about the nationality, it’s about the human in general.

Paris 13/11: How Paris Attacks Drives Stocks Of Weapons Manufacturers

When the New York Stock Exchange opened Monday morning, less than three days after terrorists attacked in Paris, five leading American weapons manufacturers saw their stock prices jump. On Monday, nearly as soon as the markets opened, stocks for weapons manufacturers began to soar — Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, General Dynamics and Thales saw increases in a day that was rather calm for the rest of the market.

Russia Warns: 4 terrorists brought by Lt Gen Ron Lewis into US

RUSSIA WARNS AMERICA FACING THANKSGIVING 'BLOODBATH' NEXT WEEK

Nov. 18, 2015
 
A grim Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) report circulating in the Kremlin today warns that the United States is facing a “potential bloodbath” during next weeks Thanksgiving Holiday period at the hands of Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL/Daesh) terrorists—the leaders of whom are now being actively searched for after they were secreted into America by a top US Army General fired by President Obama just hours before the Friday the 13th Paris Massacre.
According to SVR intelligence analysts, and as we reported on in our report titled Only Jews Were Saved After France Ignores Russia-Israel Warning Of Paris Massacre, the Federation issued a 12 November warning bulletin to the French General Directorate for External Security (DGSE) that a terror attack was about to take place—a warning that was, shamefully, ignored.

World govts secretly trade with Islamic State - terror financing expert

Have people seen the Sophie Shevardnardze interview with Christine Duhaime?

https://www.rt.com/shows/sophieco/270322-islamic-state-terror-financing/
Duhaime tends to classify ISIS as mostly a criminal enterprise that extends its assets to grabbing territory from which it then extracts product and sells this, and also use of kindnapping for ransom as an important source of income, as well as human trafficking.   Makes it sound like the Italian mafia with a more public profile.  I found that approach an interesting contrast to the way I had been conceptualising ISIS as an ideologically motivated political entity that supported itself with crime. This way it would be more a criminal enterprise that markets itself as a religious state because that works for it. One can then see how it could be used for money making and money laundering by god knows what private individuals and other governments. It also obviously soaks up unemployed or dissatisfied psychopaths, then gets them to explode themselves before they become dissatisfied with the employment conditions. 
I was interested to hear that the ISIS members who self-destructed in Paris whilst the police were trying to extract them were living in circumstances surrounded by drug paraphernalia.  From the perspective of a some time drug counselor, I have felt from the beginning that such widespread gruesome violence (as opposed to that enjoyed by rare psychopaths) carries the hallmarks of methamphetamine use - ICE notably.  You can quickly foster delusions (righteous wars; women as objects of abuse; paradise after suicide) and make addicts utterly careless with ICE.  That would explain how people could be sucked in by ridiculous promises of resort-style living and also how they might blow themselves up fearlessly, on a whim or under pressure, and how they would do anything to continue drug use, or prefer to self-destruct with ICE on board as opposed to being executed without any.

Looking ahead to the general election, Clinton takes hawkish stance on Syria


NEW YORK — Hillary Clinton laid out a broad agenda Thursday for confronting the Islamic State terrorist network — and sent a larger signal that she intends to be a more aggressive commander in chief than President Obama, under whom she served as secretary of state.
The front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination also portrayed the United States as the leader of a global fight to exterminate the Islamic State and other terrorist threats. She doubled down on her call for a no-fly zone to protect Syrian civilians.
Clinton’s prescriptions — which are hawkish and more specific than either her Democratic or Republican rivals have set out — could raise discomfort in liberal circles and among Americans made wary by the long wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Her comments suggested that she is looking past her primary opponent, Sen. Bernie Sanders (Vt.), and positioning herself for a general-election battle against whomever the Republican Party puts forward.
She also indicated that hers will be a different brand of leadership than that of Obama, who has been roundly criticized for declaring shortly before last week’s attacks in Paris that the Islamic State had been “contained.”
Clinton, in contrast, said the threat is an urgent one.
As secretary of state, she lost a policy struggle within the Obama administration about whether to intervene by arming and training Syrian rebels in 2011 and 2012, before the group also known by the acronyms ISIS and ISIL emerged as a potent threat.
“ISIS is demonstrating new ambition, reach and capabilities,” she said in a speech before the Council on Foreign Relations. “Our goal is not to deter or contain ISIS, but to defeat and destroy ISIS.”
“Time is of the essence,” Clinton added.
Recent history teaches that sending a large U.S. ground force “is just not the smart move,” she said, although she described a wider and deeper U.S. military commitment than Obama has yet to mount.
Her repeated calls for the United States to take the global lead marked a change in emphasis.
As recently as Saturday, during a Democratic presidential candidate debate in Des Moines, Clinton had said: “It cannot be an American fight. And I think what the president has consistently said — which I agree with — is that we will support those who take the fight to ISIS. . . . This cannot be an American fight, although American leadership is essential.”

Friday 20 November 2015

Syria for Dummies, Bad-Good-Bad Guys, American Viewpoint by Sharmine Narwani

The Syrian Conflict For Dummies - an American point of view:
 
"President Assad (who is bad) is a nasty guy who got so nasty and killed so many of his own people they rebelled and the rebels (who are good) started winning (Hurrah!).
 
But then some of the rebels turned a bit nasty and are now called Islamic State (IS) (who are definitely bad) and some continued to support democracy (who are still good).
 
So the Americans (who are good) started bombing Islamic State (who are really bad) and giving arms to the Syrian Rebels (who are good) so they could fight Assad (who is still bad) which was good.

All Quiet on the ISIS Front: Russian Air Force Destroys the Terrorist Group’s Media Center in Northern Aleppo

 

by Leith Fadel
“The Russian Air Force does not target ISIS!”
Oddly enough, this could not be any further from the truth; in fact, the Russian Air Force has done more damage to the Islamic State of Iraq and Al-Sham’s (ISIS) foundation than any other air force in the last three years.
Western publications that gather their information from Syrian Opposition activists often regurgitate the same hyperbolized news which attempts to propagate the idea that the Russian Air Force is non-existent in the fight against ISIS.

Thursday 19 November 2015

EU Might End Friendship With US as Washington’s Policies Hurt Europe

Europe has suffered a great deal over the past couple of years due to US-fueled anti-Russian rhetoric that Washington forced on the EU, John Laughland, the director of Studies at the Institute of Democracy and Cooperation, told Radio Sputnik.

The EU is beginning to realize that they are the ones paying the price for Washington's anti-Russian rhetoric and poor US policies in the Middle East. The United States is destroying Europe by helping to cause the refugee crisis in the Middle East and terrorist attacks, Laughland said.

Syria is a War Russia Intends to Win

By Mike Whitney 
November 18, 2015 "
Information Clearing House" - "Counterpunch" -  

Three questions about Paris:

1) Was the over-the-top, no-holds-barred, 24-7 media blitz really an attempt to keep the public informed about a critically important event or was the coverage geared to pressure President Obama into sending ground troops to Syria?

Turkish Intel Chief Supports ISIS, condemns Russian intervention as illegal

Putin's intervention in Syria is against Islam and international law, ISIS is a reality and we are optimistic about the future (Oct 18, 2015)


Ankara--- Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey's National Intelligence Organization, known by the MİT acronym, has drawn a lot of attention and criticism for his controversial comments about ISIS.
Mr. Hakan Fidan, Turkish President's staunchest ally, condemned Russian military intervention in Syria, accusing Moscow of trying to 'smother' Syria's Islamist revolution and serious breach of United Nations law.

Wednesday 18 November 2015

Excellent: Some Questions for Obama and His Gang By Christopher Black


Some Questions for Obama and His Gang

By Christopher Black 

Mr. Obama, Mr. Cameron. Mr. Hollande, Madame Merkel, Mr. Erdogan and all the other members of the criminal conspiracy to dominate the world, I ask you, do you intend to test our patience to its limit?
How much longer will your killing frenzy madden us? At what point do you stop your reckless push to the very brink of world war. Have the Nuremberg trials, the UN Charter, international law, have the fears and protests of the people, have your continual defeats in one war after another, your crimes against mankind revealed to the light time and time again, had no effect on you at all?

Syria: Can the US-NATO leopard change its spots for peace?

— By Feroze Mithiborwala 
Wed, 2015-11-18 15:07 
http://candobetter.net/node/4675


One dramatic impact of the Paris terror attack and the contradictions within the NATO camp and vis a vis the GCC-Turkish Camp, is that all of Putin's worst detractors are queuing up to meet him and seek his words of wisdom 
The photos of Putin, Obama with their 2 advisors sitting around a table for just 4 has gone all across the world.
Cameron who was a anti-Putin Hawk was today getting himself photographed with Putin ensuring all cooperation. 
Hollande will be dashing, or should I say - Da-eshing off :) :) off to Moscow and DC to iron out all details for future coordination ...
Even Erdogan is behaving himself ...

Open Letter to Code Pink peace activists on their ignorance about Syria

by Feroze Mithiborwala

Code Pink is a prominent anti-war US based organization. Very high profile. After the Paris attacks they published a webpage that ignorantly cast the Syrian Government on the same footing as Daesh. This prompted me to write the following letter, asking them to re-look at their understanding and analysis of Syria and their position on President Bashar al Assad:

Dear Code Pink,
Greetings,
Its really high time that you re-looked your understanding and your analysis of Syria and your position on President Bashar al Assad.
By all indicators, Bashar al Assad has the support of between 70-80% of the Syrian nation.

Putin: ISIS financed from 40 countries, including G20 members

President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on Islamic State financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
During the summit, “I provided examples based on our data on the financing of different Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) units by private individuals. This money, as we have established, comes from 40 countries and, there are some of the G20 members among them,” Putin told the journalists.

#ParisAttacks: France should learn from US mistakes post 9/11

WAIEL AWWAD
|16 November 2015
While the French authority tries to identify the identities of the terrorists and their supporters who carried out the carnage, victims of the horror attacks in Paris are still searching for their loved ones and grieving for the victims who are from 12 nationalities so far (French, German, British, Tunisian, Egyptian, Moroccan and American among others).
Those who pulled the trigger did not bother what nationalities they were targeting, nor did they cover their faces to hide their own identity. They simply came to kill and die. Undoubtedly, it was a criminal act carried out by fanatics (Takfirist), who were educated from the same school of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan and who followed the same books of Ibn Taimiyyah and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.

Comparing Beirut and Paris

Analysis: Just as innocent - comparing Beirut and Paris

A Lebanese journalist asks why we categorise Lebanese victims as we mourn French ones.

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The irony was not lost on some in the Australian press, who noted that there werethree times as many Lebanese Australians as French Australians. And yet, when the country's prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, tweeted "Australians' thoughts, prayers & resolute solidarity with the people of France", there was no mention of Lebanon.
"You'd think if we were able to identify with anyone, it would be with Lebanese Australians - after all, so many of them are among the most beloved in this nation, and have contributed enormously to public life," wrote Chris Graham in New Matilda.

Paris Attack Reported on WIKIPEDIA and TWITTER before it happened

Paris Attack Reported on WIKIPEDIA and TWITTER before it happened - By Objavljeno Nedjelja, 15 Novembar 2015 
Thanks to the reader who identified the IP address (82.45.236.70) as belonging to a block of addresses assigned to VirginMedia Consumer Broadband UK.
The massacre in Paris is reported to have occurred at 21:16 CET.
By 23:06 Wikipedia had an article up that is extremely detailed, containing statements from a former French President and a complete outline of events at several locations, matters that the press I read had not by then reported.
It piqued my interest that an article would be up on Wikipedia within two hours of the event happening. So I went there.

I began reading the current version of the article and then decided to read a much earlier version. I chose the 23:18 version for this article, not overly consciously. At that point I did not understand very much.

Documented French ISIS Connections - 2012 / 2015

What Preceded The Islamic State Attacks In France - Some Links (Updated)

http://www.moonofalabama.org/2015/11/terror-attacks-in-france-some-related-links.html

This happened last night: At least 120 dead in Paris attacks, Hollande declares emergency
Gunmen and bombers attacked restaurants, a concert hall and a sports stadium at locations across Paris on Friday, killing at least 120 people in a deadly rampage that a shaken President Francois Hollande called an unprecedented terrorist attack.

Paris 13/11: Sen Lindsey Graham, Take out Assad, NoFlyZone-Safe-Zone

ear Friends, just closely following the political line being sent out by CNN

Sen Lindsey Graham ( US Presidential Candidate, Responsible for Toppling Muammar Gaddafi of Syria)

This is what he said on CNN - 15/11/15 at 8.15pm

Declare war on ISIS & Take out Assad

Safe Haven within Syria and No Fly Zone

Either we find ISIS in their backyard

Form regional army of Arabs & Turkey along with US army

Take back Syria and hold it

ISIS is coming here if we dont go there

You will never win the war from the Air

There is a 9/11 coming and its coming from Syria

The Arabs and Turkey want to destroy ISIS

Lets form an international army

I am trying to protect America from another 9/11

We have to take out Assad

No Arab nation will want to fight ISIS and let Assad be in power

This the Arabs will not do and we will not be able to rally the region

Assad has to be taken out, we will not let Assad be in power and give another capital to the Iranians

Q-CNN - will this be a war with Russia

Lindsey - You have bombed the people that we have trained

Stop supporting Assad

We will take out Assad

Let make Russia make a decision

Russia will walk out

Rick Santorum blames Obama-Hillary for creation of ISIS

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum has blamed the United States for the creation of Daesh (ISIL), after the terrorist group claimed responsibility for the Paris attacks.

At least 129 people were killed in multiple coordinated attacks on Friday night in one of the deadliest assaults to hit the French capital since the World War II. Some 352 were also injured -- including 99 who are in critical condition -- in the attacks.
On Saturday, ISIL claimed responsibility for the attacks, calling them “the first of the storm” and denounced France as a “capital of prostitution and obscenity.”
Speaking at a GOP meeting in Orlando, Florida, on Saturday, Santorum said US President Barack Obama and former Foreign Secretary Hillary Clinton are responsible for creating Daesh.
He said that the terrorist group “is a creation of a political decision by Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to abandon Iraq — against all of our generals’ recommendations, against all of the policy recommendations.”
“Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, under her watch, decided politics above the security of our country and the stability and security of the world,” said Santorum, who served as a senator representing Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007.

Paris Attack: Analysing the political and strategic reasons for the 13/11 Paris Terror False Flag

Target Refugees and Heightened Direct NATO-Turkish-Saudi-GCC intervention in Syria and Iraq.

Around 1.50 pm (IST), a massive coordinated terror attack broke out across 7 different targets across Paris. Some of us have been up all night monitoring the media reports, sharing facts from across various media sources, as the information emerged, as well as the political comments that interspersed the reportage, and thus the underlying message

More than a 149 people are reported to have died into the Concert hall, where the people were taken as hostages and then murdered in cold-blood.

This has been followed by suicide terror attacks and the horrific bombings of the Russian Plane, and attacks in Beirut, Baghdad in the last 24 hours. It just points to the fact that the ISIS and other terror organizations are losing the war to the Syrian and Iraqi Armies, the Kurdish forces, Hezbollah, backed by Russia and Iran.

In the last few days, the Syrian Army has liberated the KUWEIRES AIRBASE in Aleppo from the clutches of the ISIS, thus striking a body blow to the terrorist organization and their Turkish-Saudi-Qatari-US-UK-French-Israeli-NATO-GCC backers, funders, weaponizers.

Once Aleppo falls to the Syrian Army, the ISIS will soon be driven out from all across Syria, as its entire supply routes via the Turkish borders will have come to a dead halt, or at best a trickle. Thus the Turkish-Saudi-Western cabal, had to take recourse to drastic measures and build their case for direct intervention, or then lose their strategic space to Russia.

There are thus many forces that have seen their entire plan to control the Middle-East, destroy Syria, bring about Regime Change, all shattered and defeated.

Thus, It is apparently clear that this False Flag Terror attack, will create:

1) A very strong anti-Refugee Climate across Europe and the West. France has declared an Emergency and has sealed its borders, which is unprecedented. France has also deployed its Air-Craft Carrier, the Charled De Gaulle to the Mediterranean. The CNN says that this terror attack will change France, as did the 9/11 change the USA.

2) The "solution" that will emerge is that the only way to stem the tide of the Refugees flowing in from Syria and Iraq (mainly Syria), is for the WEST-NATO for go into Direct Enhanced Intervention, More Aerial Attacks, Boots on the Ground.

3) The Turkish-Erdogan-Dovutoglu-Muslim Brotherhood plan is to create a SAFE-ZONE in Northern Syria, by NATO Declaring a NO FLY ZONE, wherein Turkish troops move into Northern Syria and create the space for the REFUGEES, thus resolving the CR-ISIS for EUROPE and the USA.

In fact the G20 Summit is to be held, interestingly and fortuitously so in Antalya, Turkey itself. (15-16 November, 2015)

These are the political and the strategic reasons that lie at the root of the horrendous terror attack.

In solidarity with the resistance
Feroze Mithiborwala
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http://www.almasdarnews.com/article/at-least-60-dead-in-paris-shootings-hostages-held-french-media/

At least 60 dead in Paris shootings, hostages held: French mediaON NOVEMBER 13, 2015

France was rocked by multiple, near simultaneous attacks on entertainment sites around Paris on Friday evening and French media said at least 60 people were killed and hostages were being held in a concert hall in the capital.
The apparently coordinated gun and bomb attacks came as the country, a founder member of the U.S.-led coalition waging air strikes against Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, was on high alert for terrorist attacks ahead of a global climate conference that opens later this month.
Western security sources said they suspected an Islamist militant group was behind the carnage.
At least two explosions were heard near the Stade de France national stadium where a France-Germany friendly soccer match was being played, attended by President Francois Hollande.
The match continued until the end but panic broke out in the crowd as rumors of the attack spread, and spectators were held in the stadium and assembled spontaneously on the pitch.
There were reports of possibly as many as four shootings in central Paris, one of which turned into a hostage taking at a popular rock music venue, witnesses said.
TF1 television said up to 35 people were dead near the soccer stadium, including two suspected suicide bombers in the attack in the neighborhood of Saint Denis, north of central Paris.
Police helicopters circled the stadium as Hollande was rushed back to the interior ministry to deal with the situation. The president’s office said he had called an emergency cabinet meeting for midnight (2300 GMT) to manage the crisis.
Police confirmed there had been shootings and explosions at the stadium, but not the number of casualties.
In central Paris, shooting erupted in mid-evening outside a Cambodian restaurant in the capital’s 10th district and the Bataclan music hall, where bystanders were evacuated as elite police commandos took up position.
Several witnesses told television stations that up to 60 hostages were being held inside the popular concert venue.
“There are lots of people here. I don’t know what’s happening, a sobbing witness who gave her name only as Anna told BFM TV outside the Bataclan hall. “It’s horrible. There’s a body over there. It’s horrible.”
Elsewhere, police cordoned off a wide area around the Petit Cambodge restaurant where witnesses said gunmen armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles had fired at diners through the plate-glass windows, causing multiple casualties.
“I was on my way to my sister’s when I heard shots being fired. Then I saw three people dead on the ground, I know they were dead because they were being wrapped up in plastic bags,” student Fabien Baron told Reuters.
There were also reports of shootings in rue de Charonne in the 11th district and at the central Les Halles shopping center.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the Paris attacks, which came within days of attacks claimed by Islamic State militants on a Shi’ite Muslim district of southern Beirut in Lebanon, and a Russian tourist aircraft which crashed in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
Earlier on Friday, the United States and Britain said they had launched an attack in the Syrian town of Rakka on a British Islamic State militant known as “Jihadi John” but it was not certain whether he had been killed.