USS Liberty Survivor Gets Medal of Honor (About Freakin’ Time!)

• William Loren McGonagle

• Date of birth: 19 Nov. 1925
• Place of birth: Wichita, Kan.
• Home of record: Thermal, Calif.
• 
  The U.S.S. Liberty was attacked by Israeli forces two days after the Six-Day War between Israel and several Arab nations commenced. The Israeli government apologized for the incident that killed 34 members of the crew and wounded 171, claiming their fighters had mistaken it for an Egyptian vessel. Purportedly, in order to avoid further embarrassing the government of Israel, William McGonagle’s Medal of Honor was quietly presented in a simple ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard, as was a posthumous award of the Navy Cross to the ship’s Executive Officer and a member of the crew. This may be the only Medal of Honor ever awarded to an American serviceman for heroism in action against a nation that was not at war with the United States.

[You will notice that the word "Israel" does not appear anywhere in the following citiation?]

The President of the United States in the name of The Congress takes pleasure in presenting the MEDAL OF HONOR to

Captain

William Loren McGonagle

Navy

for service as set forth in the following

CITATION:

For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty as Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. LIBERTY in the Mediterranean Sea on 8 and 9 June 1967. Sailing in international waters, the LIBERTY was attacked without warning by jet fighter aircraft and motor torpedo boats which inflicted many casualties among the crew and caused extreme damage to the ship. Although severely wounded during the first air attack, Captain McGonagle remained at his battle station on the badly damaged bridge and, with full knowledge of the seriousness of his wounds, subordinated his own welfare to the safety and survival of his command. Steadfastly refusing any treatment which would take him away from his post, he calmly continued to exercise firm command of his ship. Despite continuous exposure to fire, he maneuvered his ship, directed its defense, supervised the control of flooding and fire, and saw to the care of the casualties. Captain McGonagle’s extraordinary valor under these conditions inspired the surviving members of the LIBERTY’s crew, many of them seriously wounded, to heroic efforts to overcome the battle damage and keep the ship afloat. Subsequent to the attack, although in great pain and weak from the loss of blood, Captain McGonagle remained at his battle station and continued to command his ship for more than 17 hours. It was only after rendezvous with a U.S. destroyer that he relinquished personal control of the LIBERTY and permitted himself to be removed from the bridge. Even then, he refused much needed medical attention until convinced that the seriously wounded among his crew had been treated. Captain McGonagle’s superb professionalism, courageous fighting spirit, and valiant leadership saved his ship and many lives. His actions sustain and enhance the finest traditions of the U.S. Naval Service.

Pakistan’s Lawyers Movement, More Psychological Warfare and Cronyism

SPECIAL REPORT

Pakistan’s Lawyers Movement: Who Achieved What?

The Lawyers’ Movement initially began as a result of the actions taken by General Pervez Musharraf on 9th March, 2007. Pervez Musharraf, after getting intelligence that Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was conspiring with Nawaz Sharif to overthrow the government called for a meeting and asking him to resign or face “charges of misconduct”. The Chief Justice refused to resign and preferred to defend the charges. Within two months the movement took the path of Color Revolution, getting enormous funds from USA and other countries with the main aim of destabilizing Pakistan and forcing Parvez Musharraf out of office. The organization and publicity of the entire campaign is calculated to have cost around Rs. 30 billion. How much did this cost Pakistan? There is no work done, however, a good estimate would be around US$ 100 billion. [Continued below]

By PakAlert.wordpress.com

Tuesday, 2 June 2009.

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The political mess gave space to terrorists to infiltrate the Red Mosque [left] in Islamabad and allowed anti-Pakistan ethnic based parties, especially ANP and MQM, to paralyze Karachi.

Why America?

Although the movement was jump started by Nawaz Sharif, on the way it became the main vehicle for USA to remove Parvez Musharraf who was not going for US backed Central Asian pipelines but leaning towards China. Bush Administration was convinced by Dick Cheney that if Musharraf stays in power China will get the Central Asian fuels. After Dick Cheney’s February 2007 visit of Islamabad and Kabul CIA starts working with RAW in Afghanistan to arm the suicide bombers and militants in the Red Mosque in Islamabad as the first phase. The process takes nearly a month during which time in a seperate incident Musharraf dismisses the Chief Justice of Pakistan. Seeing the Lawyers Movement as a better vehicle, the American and Indian efforts turn from Red Mosque to the movement.

Another aspect of ousting Musharraf was his decision to clamp down on the drug trade through Pakistan. This would have affected above all, Ahmad Wali Karzai (younger brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai) who earns an annual profit of US$ 1 billion (10% of total Afghan drug money), CIA’s black operations wing and its related US personnel. Thus it was the personal agenda of many in Bush Administration and Pakistan and Afghanistan’s US Embassies to get Musharraf out before he puts a stop to the highly lucrative drug trade.

See: Afghan Drug Trade for a complete look on how many US Officers profit from Afghanistan’s opium trafficking.

Why Dick Cheney?

Early 2007 Parvez Musharraf had decided not to go for Unocal (now Chevron Corporation) and Halliburton backed Central Asian pipeline which would have cost Vice President Dick Cheney great sums of money. Thus a personal agenda was turned into a revolution. He tried all in his power to get Musharraf out within the tenure of his Vice Presidency and get Pakistani Government’s approval for the billions of dollars worth Central Asian pipeline to be built by Unocal and Halliburon.

Timeline of Lawyers’ Movement

• 04 Feb 2000: Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, then 52, is appointed to Pakistan’s Supreme Court. He supports President Pervez Musharraf, voting to ratify the general’s 1999 military coup.
• 30 Jun 2005: Mr Chaudhry is appointed chief justice, makes a speech talking of a “serious crisis of confidence between the people and the judiciary”.
• March 2005: the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) tries to acquire Unocal with a bid that valued Unocal at between $16 billion and $18 billion. Following a vote in the United States House of Representatives, the bid was referred to President George Bush, on the grounds that its implications for national security needed to be reviewed. CNOOC withdrew its bid. Soon after, Unocal merged with Chevron.
• 18 Jul 2005: The Indo-U.S. civilian nuclear agreement, known also as the Indo-US Nuclear Deal, refers to a bilateral accord on civil nuclear cooperation between the United States of America and the Republic of India.
• 23 Jun 2006: Supreme Court of Pakistan stops privatization of Pakistan Steel Mills.
• 26 Feb 2007: Dick Cheney visits Pakistan for few hours [1]. Mr. Cheney traveled with the deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Steve Kappes. Just hours after Vice President Dick Cheney delivered a stiff private message to President Pervez Musharraf in Pakistan, the Pakistani government lashed out with a series of statements insisting that “Pakistan does not accept dictation from any side or any source”[4].
• 09 Mar 2007: Musharraf removes Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry, after the agencies find sufficient proof that he was conspiring with Nawaz Sharif against the government. Nawaz Sharif had promised to make him the President of Pakistan once he becomes the Primie Minister of Pakistan.
• 12 Mar 2007: Lawyers begin boycott of court cases and protests in support of Mr Chaudhry. Nawaz Sharif pumps millions of his own dollars into the lawyers protests. A major portion of this booty goes to Munir A. Malik and Aitzaz Ahsan as their “consultation fee”.
• 13 Mar 2007: Mr Chaudhry appears before a closed hearing of senior judges to answer allegations against him.
• 15 Mar 2007: An accute shortage of black colored jackets and coats appear throughout the country. Prices of black colored cloths and coats sky rocket because of the demand. (The Reason: Thousands of people are buying black coats which represent lawyers uniform ahead of the protests in the country).
• 16 Mar 2007: Violence breaks out at Islamabad rally in support of Mr Chaudhry.
• 27 Mar 2007: President Musharraf tells rally in Rawalpindi that no one will be allowed to politically exploit Mr Chaudhry’s suspension.
• 27 Mar 2007: Burqa-clad female students from the mosque’s Jamia Hafsa school abduct three women they accuse of running a brothel. The women are released after they “repent”.
• 30 Mar 2007: Authorities shut down an illegal FM radio station set up by the students and hardline clerics to propagate their strict version of Islam.
• 12 May 2007: Riots erupted across Karachi (2007 Karachi Riots), capital of the province of Sindh and the most populous city in Pakistan, spurred by the arrival of deposed Chief Justice of Pakistan.
• 18 May 2007: Red Mosque students seize four policemen and demand that authorities release 11 comrades being held in detention. The four policemen are later freed.
• 9 Jun 2007: Benazir summoned senior party members to Dubai on 9 June 2007 for a ‘briefing’ by a team from the US Democratic Party’s National Democratic Institute (NDI), ostensibly on the subject of elections in Pakistan. The ruling Republican Party’s International Republican Institute (IRI) had conducted the previous four ‘briefings’ in June and September 2006 and March and April 2007. Benazir leaned towards the Democratic Party in the last one no doubt as a hedge against the party’s possible victory at the forthcoming US Presidential Election.
• 23 Jun 2007: Students kidnap nine people, including six Chinese women, and accuse them of running a brothel. They are released after about 17 hours.
• 29 Jun 2007: President Pervez Musharraf says suicide bombers from an al Qaeda-linked militant group are in Lal Masjid.
• 03 Jul 2007: the stand-off between the students barricaded inside the Red Mosque (Lal Masjid) and the government results in bloody gun battles
• 04 Jul 2007: Abdul Aziz, chief cleric of Lal Masjid is caught while trying to flee in a burqa. Thousands of students surrender for Rs 5000 and safe passage each.
• 08 Jul 2007: The standoff between the Pakistani government and the clerics of the Lal Masjid in Islamabad finally broke down on the morning of 8 July 2007. Government storms the mosque. The government managed to recover 1,300 men, women and children during the operation. Some of these women, who were recovered safely on the last day of the operation, had their written death wishes with them. Six hundred suicide bombers are present in Karachi revealed Qasim Toori and Danish alias Talha during interrogations by law-enforcement agencies. Most of the suicide bombers are also former students of Islamabad’s Lal Masjid.
• 17 Jul 2007: Assassination attempt is made on Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry however, he escapes[3].
• 20 Jul 2007: the Supreme Court of Pakistan restored the Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry with full dignity and authority.
• 24 Jul 2007: Abdullah Mehsud is killed by Pakistani security forces.
• 20 Aug 2007: Ifikhar Mohammad threatened Tariq Pervez (the director-general of Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency) with jail if he did not produce ghost detainee Hafiz Abdul Basit. Chief Justice Chaudhry ordered “He must be produced today or you will be sent to the lock-up.” Under this threat he was released by the intelligence agencies. Hafiz Basit was later implicated by Musharaff government in the assassination of Ms Bhutto.
• Sep 2007: Benazir visited the Senate in September 2007, she had convinced the Bush Administration of her unswerving loyalty; for ’she received a standing ovation from a select gathering of US lawmakers, diplomats, academics and media representatives. This contrasted sharply with her previous visits to the US capital when she received little attention.’
• Three weeks later Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made it appear the Bush Administration wished to bring together ‘moderate’ forces, implying a scenario in which Musharraf and Benazir would join forces as President and Prime Minister respectively; and Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte corroborated Rice: ‘Our message’, he intoned, ‘is that we want to work with the government and people of Pakistan’.
• 18 Oct 2007: An assassination attempt on Benazir Bhutto is made (2007 Karachi Bombing) but she survives. President Parvez Gen Musharraf calls the attack on Ms Bhutto’s convoy was a “conspiracy against democracy”[2] (hinting towards the US involvement towards overthrowing the government).
• 03 Nov 2007: Musharraf imposed state of emergency. Constitution was suspended. Sixty independent judges were dismissed. Intelligence agencies start systematically killing behind the scene key players in the conspiracy to overthrow the government. Some of these include: Zubair Ahmed Mujahid (shot dead 23 Nov),
• 05 Nov 2007: Police raided the Lahore High Court Bar Association (LHCBA). After baton charging and throwing tear gas into the premises, arrested more than 800 lawyers.
• In the wake of the imposition of emergency rule in Pakistan, on November 14, 2007, the Harvard Law School Association decided to award its highest honour, the Medal of Freedom, to Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, following the military crackdown the previous week. He becomes the first Pakistani to be presented with such honour.
• The National Law Journal picked Mr. Chaudhry as the lawyer of the year for 2007.
• The Association of the Bar of the City of New York granted Iftikhar Chaudhry an honorary membership in the association on Nov. 17, 2008, recognizing him as a “symbol of the movement for judicial and lawyer independence in Pakistan.”
• 27 Dec 2007: Benazir Bhutto is assassinated while Nawaz Sharif escapes an assassination attempt. The two attempts are very different in nature. Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a typical CIA style while Nawaz Sharif’s attack was more like a domestic killing. It is obvious that Asif Ali Zardari acted on his own to carry out Nawaz Sharif’s assassination. Following Benazir’s assassination planned riots, looting and chaos errupts simultaneously throughout the country. Within a week the country looses nearly 10 billion dollars[5].
• 9 Mar 2008: leaders of political parties Asif Ali Zardari , Pakistan Peoples Party and Nawaz Sharif Pakistan Muslim League signed an agreement to restore the judges within 300 days of formation of national government. Zardari backed out and the coalition failed to restore the judges.
• 24 Mar 2008: Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered, soon after being elected Prime Minister, that all detained judges be released.
• 12 Mar 2008: was another deadline for restoring the judges but nothing was done. This was the second commitment the government backed out from after the initial deadline of ‘within 30 days of formation of government’ which ended on 30 April, 2008.
• 14 Jun 2008: A long march is held by the lawyers.
• 07 Jul 2008: ISI explodes a bomb outside Indian Embassy in Kabul killing Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta who had coordinated the mayhem in Pakistan in December 2007.
• 03 Aug 2008: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gillani visits US.
• 08 Aug 2008: ruling coalition leaders Sharif and Zardari once more agree to restore Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry as the chief justice if Musharraf resigns. But when Musharraf steped down, Zardari backed out of the deal for the third time.
• 18 Aug 2008: Musharraf resigns.

Foreign investment and funds in the revolution stops at this point.

• 25 Aug 2008: PML-N leaves the coalition government.
• 6 Sept 2008: Asif Ali Zardari is elected the President of Pakistan by the parliament.
• 25 Feb 2009: Supreme Court disqualifies Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from holding or contesting public offices.
• 11 Mar 2009: Several hundred lawyers and opposition party’s political workers and leaders were arrested. Ban was placed on rallies and protests in two of the Pakistan’s four provinces.
• 12 Mar 2009: Lawyers, political workers and civil society gather in several cities for the Long March to Islamabad. Scuffle with police, hundreds of arrests were made, none allowed to leave their cities for Islamabad.
• 15 Mar 2009: authorities placed Nawaz Shairf, Atizaz Ahsan and many other leaders under house arrest. Shairf broke through the road blocks with his supporters and came out on the roads in Lahore to begin the Long March. This is believed to be the turning point of the movement Thousands of people joined the rally.
• Midnight 15/16 March, 2009 government gave when thousands of people moved towards Islamabad lead by Nawaz Sharif. Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry was restored as Chief Justice of Pakistan and other judges dismissed by Musharraf.

US and Canadian Involvement

During the Lawyers’ Movement a completely new dimension of indrect involvement of USA in overthrowing a government was seen. The prominent of these were:

• 33 US Senators wrote to President Musharraf to release Barrister Aitzaz Ahsan immediately.
• The US magazine Foreign Policy named Aitzaz Ahsan as one of the top 100 public intellectuals in the world in May 2008.
• In early 2007, Musharraf was extremely popular. According to a US survey, IRI President General Pervez Musharraf was more popular in Pakistan than opposition leaders Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif. Around 37 per cent of the respondents were of the view that Musharraf’s supported PML-Q deserved to be re-elected. However, by August 2007, after the lawyers Judicial Activism started, Musharraf became slightly unpopular in Pakistan due to persistent media efforts and anti-Musharraf talk shows. An International Republican Institute survey, taken of 3000 people, showed that 64 percent of the population did not want another term to be granted to Musharraf as the president of Pakistan.
• USAID spent more than US$ 150 million (part of the American fund on terrorism which is “given” to Pakistan) within a year on helpding the movement.
• GEO TV which charges Rs. 100,000 per minute of air time showed continued transmissions of upto 30 hours. During the year the channel was spending more money than it showed in its tax returns. The only unaccounted profit was for “Voice of America” show. But whatever GEO TV was getting for airing the show it was enough to turn higher profits than airing aids for 30 hours (=Rs. 180,000,000 or US$ 3 million). And we are taking about this much money every day.
• Why was Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) distributing funds during the movement is anybody’s guess?
• Human Rights Commission, e.g. see the case of Imran Munir

Impact of Lawyers’ Movement

Pakistan’s economy suffered gravely, government focus shifted from work and economy to non-violent solution for the lawyers. PML-N was already fully involved from the onset, however, other political parties also jumped on the band wagon causing more disruption in daily life. The poorest and daily labourers suffered the most because of strike calls and road blockages.

The real story on the road was that poorest don’t wake up every morning to see Iftikhar Choudhry wearing a black suite, sunglasses, sitting in a new car parading on the streets of Pakistan, the poorest wake up and hope for a better day, a day in which they can increase their earnings and support their family, bring food to the table, they don’t want to see the roads blocked and strikes called which stop them from earning their daily livelihoods.

As the riots and protests were held in the summer months, the intense head resulted in numerous deaths and hospital admissions because of heat exhaustion, nearly all of which were small time lawyers and their family members travelling either on foot or in non-air-conditioned cars.

However, the behind the scene aim of ousting Parvez Musharraf was achieved at the end.

Go Musharraf Go

Interestingly enough the salogans along the protests were not anything like “bring back Iftikhar Chaudhry” but they were “Go Musharraf Go, Go Musharraf Go.” The questions need to be answered that if the lawyers really wanted Iftikhar Chaudhry reinstated then why were they continuously chanting “Go Musharraf Go”.

Also, there were sixty judges dismissed however, only one was being paraded around and continuously given coverage and publicity.

End Result

Dick Cheney achieved the milestone of ousting Pervez Musharraf however, his final goal of getting the pipeline deals for his company did not materialize even after the change of the regime.

Winners

• Asif Ali Zardari – became President of Pakistan and had doubled his wealth within a year
• Asif Zardari’s friends
• Aitzaz Ahsan – earned world-wide fame, became a hero in Pakistan – monetary benefits yet to come
• Munir A. Malik – earned tens of millions of dollars

Indirect Beneficiaries

There were some indirect beneficiaries of the entire movement such as:

• Imran Munir

Collateral

Or in other words, Losers.

• Benazir Bhutto (assassinated 27 December 2007) – she was in for power
• Pervez Musharraf – out of office
• Syed Hammad Raza (shot dead 14 May 2007) – he was in to get an important political seat
• Kenneth Scott Andrew (murdered 8 April 2007) – to get promoted
• Zubair Ahmed Mujahid (shot dead 23 Nov) – to get promoted
• Dick Cheney – did not get the pipeline deal
• Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta (assassinated 7 July 2008) – to get promoted to Major General

Lesson

Lesson: Unless you are as cunning and conniving as Munir A. Malik or Aitzaz Ahsan in a high level and stakes conspiracy you are very probable to end up dead. Don’t play for emotions or ego, play for money and you will win.

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US Special Forces Looking for Opportunity to Enter Pakistan

US forces on standby to catch ‘big three’

US Special Operations Forces are on continuous alert on the Afghan side of the border but the Obama administration has so far chosen to use unmanned drone attacks to hit high-value targets inside Pakistan. – Reuters photo

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Bomb kills six Afghans, including two children

DRONE STRIKES

US bombing a sovereign country: US lawmaker

WASHINGTON: The US Special Operations Forces have standing orders to enter Pakistan if they have authentic information about the presence of the ‘big three’ in a particular area, The Washington Post reported on Monday.

The report identified the ‘big three’, as Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar.

The Post said that the US Special Operation Forces had already established ground teams near the Pakistani border in Afghanistan who would move into Pakistan if they had ‘conclusive’ evidence of the presence of any of the three big extremist leaders in a particular area.

The report noted that all three were thought to be hiding in Pakistan.

Last summer, the Bush administration authorised covert US ground raids inside Pakistan, but Pakistani outrage after a single attack in September led to their suspension.

Although US Special Operations Forces’ teams are on continuous alert on the Afghan side of the border, the Obama administration has not authorised any ground operations in Pakistan.

Instead, the administration is depending heavily on unmanned drone attacks to hit high-value targets inside Pakistan.

The officials believe that this provides them with better opportunities to target Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders.

The Post, however, noted that it was still unclear whether US intelligence and Pakistani ground forces could capitalise on such opportunities before they vanished.

US and Pakistani officials who spoke to the Post conceded that chances to intercept substantive Al Qaeda communications or to take advantage of the movement of individuals were ‘always fleeting’.

Ruins of war

Tuesday, June 02, 2009
It seems inappropriate to be celebrating what seems like approaching victory in the battle for Swat. The initial accounts of the scenes in Mingora are horrifying. Corpses are said to lie along streets. There are grotesque stories of stray dogs gnawing them. People report cooking leaves or grass to survive. The injured lie untreated in beds. There are acute shortages of medicine and the International Committee of the Red Cross, after going into Swat, has expressed concern over the situation in hospitals. We do not know if worse may lie ahead as other areas of Swat are freed from the grip of the Taliban. All this of course is the outcome of a war we all wished to avoid but were ultimately forced to go into. However, even in war, there are humanitarian rules that apply. These have been violated in Swat and elsewhere, by both sides engaged in fighting. The rules are aimed essentially at minimizing civilian suffering in war. In contrast the Taliban have attempted to maximize it, holding non-combatants as hostages in one place after the other. The placing of landmines in Mingora is another example of an attempt to inflict harm on innocent women, children and men. But the military too is not entirely blameless. The shortages of food in Mingora had been reported for days. Perhaps a greater effort should have been made to air-drop supplies or make other efforts to prevent starvation.

This of course is easier to say from a distance. The military is engaged in war, even if it is fought within the boundaries of its own country, and its primary target must be to win it. However, given the possibility of further fighting, in Waziristan and elsewhere, some basic parameters are required. The nature of this war and its goal of winning back not just territory but also hearts and minds, means sparing civilian suffering must be a key objective. The scenes we see now in Mingora must be avoided elsewhere. Perhaps we need to think more seriously about mass evacuations of civilian populations. This was proposed by the provincial government at one point. At the very least a better plan is needed to prevent so much misery for so many. This is all the more true given that those left behind in Mingora and other towns are in many cases the most impoverished, who simply cannot leave. They need protection from the state.

The immediate priority must be to rush aid to Mingora and other areas. People there are desperate for help. A plan to offer it, involving international humanitarian groups, the provincial government and local organizations must immediately be put into place. Both in the short and long term there is much to be done. The effort to do so simply cannot be delayed.

Taliban kidnap 20 students, six teachers in Bannu

Abduction took place on main road in broad daylight

By Malik Mumtaz Khan & Mushtaq Yusufzai

MIRAMSHAH/PESHAWAR: Twenty students and six teachers of Cadet College Razmak in North Waziristan Agency were abducted by suspected Taliban militants on Monday evening in the Bakakhel area of Frontier Region Bannu. The abducted students and their teachers had been travelling in four vehicles as part of a 28-vehicle convoy transporting almost 400 people including students, teachers and their relatives. The fate of the abducted students and teachers remains unknown while the other vehicles of the convoy and their passengers arrived safely in Bannu city.

The Taliban had initially commandeered four vehicles but for inexplicable reasons they allowed two vehicles to proceed towards the district headquarters. They, however, continue to hold two vehicles carrying 20 students and six teachers.

The students along with others were leaving the area after the closure of the college due to security concerns as the situation in the adjoining South Waziristan tribal region had become immensely tense after the latest clashes between security forces and the Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban.

Senior government officials based in Razmak town of North Waziristan, where the college is located, told The News that in the first leg of the journey, the entire convoy had remained in the protection of the Taliban militants affiliated with militant commander Hafiz Gul Bahadur (who has entered into a peace deal with the government in North Waziristan) [what happened to the Bahadur, Mehsud and Nazir union?] and the Khassadar Force, who took the students and their teachers to Kajhori post in Mirali which happens to be the boundary between North Waziristan and FR Bannu. The North Waziristan Taliban returned after the 28-vehicle convoy crossed into FR Bannu around 5:45pm, and it was soon after that the Baitullah Mehsud controlled Taliban attacked the convoy as it snaked its way towards Bannu city.

According to the eyewitness account of those who made it safely to Bannu, the new group of the Taliban first fired at the convoy to bring some of the vehicles to a stop but fortunately nobody was hurt in this attack. The students and their teachers were kidnapped by the armed militants near Bakakhel area of FR Bannu. The Taliban commandeered four vehicles and took them to an undisclosed location but for inexplicable reasons, two of the vehicles carrying students were allowed to leave while the Taliban took away two vehicles carrying 20 students and six teachers.

Some of the students, who escaped from the Taliban, told Miryan police in Bannu that the militants were armed with hand grenades and rifles and had snatched vehicles from the drivers at gunpoint.

Some of the teachers said the militants had also stopped five other vehicles in which families of the college teachers were travelling. However, upon learning about their identity, the families were allowed to leave.

Vice principal of the college Prof Javed Alam, when reached by telephone, later told The News that a majority of the students had escaped from the Taliban’s siege and only four vehicles had been hijacked.

He said they had left Razmak town at around 3:00pm for Peshawar and were travelling in 28 vehicles in the protection of the local Khassadar Force.Prof Javed said there were 280 students, 30 teachers and family members of the college teachers in the convoy.

“I was travelling in the first vehicle and did not know about the incident. I came to know of it when we reached Bannu city that the Taliban had kidnapped the students and some teachers,” said Javed Alam.

He said they had not been worried about their security as they were almost in Bannu city. Prof Javed also confirmed that the militants had opened fire at the vehicles but said the students and teachers remained safe in the attack.

The academician said efforts were being made for release of the remaining students and teachers. No militant group had claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of students and their teachers till the filing of this report.

The government had first closed down the college in January 2008, due to fighting between security forces and the Baitullah Mehsud-led Taliban in South Waziristan and some of the rockets fired by militants had even fallen inside the college premises.

However, on that occasion, the then NWFP governor Lt Gen (Retd) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai had arranged military helicopters to bring the students and their teachers to Bannu to preclude any possibility of kidnapping by the militants.

The students and their teachers expressed displeasure at their security arrangements and accused the Bannu police of negligence that helped the militants kidnap them from a main road in broad daylight. “Even after the militants had kidnapped the students and teachers, the Bannu police chief and his team did not take any action,” lamented a senior staff member of the college.

Pakistan releases ‘top militant’

[Pakistan begins to resist US domination.]

Pakistan releases ‘top militant’

Mr Saeed’s release order is likely to alarm India

A Pakistani court has ordered the release of the leader of an Islamic charity suspected of being a front for a group accused of the Mumbai attacks.

A court ruled there was no reason to hold Jamaat-ud-Dawa founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed under house arrest.

India accuses Jamaat-ud-Dawa of being a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba, the group it says was behind the attacks. Mr Saeed is also a founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba.

The UN added Mr Saeed to a terrorist watch list after the Mumbai attacks.

A spokesman for Jamaat-ud-Dawa told the BBC that they were always confident that Mr Saeed would be vindicated.

“Our stand is clear. We have nothing to do with militancy or militants,” he said.

But even though the court had ordered his release, the spokesman advised caution as to exactly when and how this might happen.

“I don’t think the government is going to let it go so easily, and even if they do release Hafiz Sahib, they can always re-arrest him on some other concocted charge,” he said.

Mr Saeed was placed under house arrest in December after the UN added him to a list of people and groups linked to al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

Mumbai denial

His release is likely to alarm the United States and India.

This is not the first time that Mr Saeed has been placed under house arrest following militant attacks in India only to be subsequently released.

The BBC’s Chris Morris in Islamabad says that India is likely to express its concern about Pakistan’s commitment to tackling militancy. But, he adds, that Pakistan would point out that the decision to release Mr Saeed was made by an independent court.

In an interview with the BBC just before being placed under house arrest in December, Mr Saeed denied any connection with the Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

But the Indian authorities say there is evidence to show that they were planned and financed by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan. Mr Saeed has been named on the official charge sheet in connection with the Mumbai attacks.

Founded in the late 1980s, Lashkar-e-Taiba is one of most feared groups fighting against Indian control in Kashmir. After it was banned in Pakistan in 2002, the organisation divided itself into Jamaat-ud-Dawa and Lashkar-e-Taiba, correspondents say.

Mr Saeed is at the helm of Jamaat-ud-Dawa which works as an Islamic charity all over Pakistan.

Index on War in Pakistan, May 2009

[Comprehensive research guide]

Index on War in Pakistan, May 2009

Sarah Meyer, Index Research

National Flag of Pakistan June 1, 2009 1. Preface: Themes in Three Wars 2. Gas in Pakistan 3. Strategic Imperatives 4. Demonising the Taliban 5. The War 6. Drones 7. Pakistan’s Supply Depots for Afghanistan 8. Blame and Counterblame 9. Backlash to War & Censorship 10. Nuclear Issues 11. Refugees 12. Aid to Pakistan 13. References + 1. Preface: Themes in Three Wars The threads running through Bush/Obama’s three wars have the same themes. TERRORISTS (al Qaida / Taliban (etc.): “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” George W. Bush, address to a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001. Afghanistan : America went to war in Afghanistan, following 9/11, with the excuse to ‘get’ the (now dead?) Osama bin Laden. “My girls, do they look like Taliban?” Photo Jason Motlagh, Washington Times Iraq. The Bush administration took the ‘opportunity’ to torture victims for an admission that Saddam Hussein was connected to Al Qaida. Pakistan “ We have a clear and focused goal: to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaida in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” Barack Obama. Obama has now taken on the Bush administration’s mantle, continuing the war in Pakistan. America’s 3rd war in Pakistan was not mentioned in Obama’s recent “two war” address to the National Archives; nor is the 3rd war mentioned by US spokespeople. As if this war doesn’t exist. Iran : It would be worth exploring the funding/hiring source for Jundallah, recently accused of bombing a mosque in Iran and an attack [regime change?] on Iran’s president [see below]. NUCLEAR WEAPONS Afghanistan : Bush said threats by Osama bin Laden to use weapons of mass destruction must be taken seriously. Iraq : General Colin Powell , Address to the United Nations Security Council; “The” Dossier: Iraq close to building nuclear weapons (24.10.02. Guardian) Iraq’s nuclear weapons did not exist. Pakistan: Pakistan has 25-30 nuclear weapons . The US, to manufacture consent for its 3rd war, started agitating about Pakistan’s nuclear weapons on 14 May 2009, combining this threat with that of the Taliban. ? War 4 in Iran : Both Bush and Obama have been manufacturing consent for war on Iran, citing nuclear weapons. OIL / GAS. In ALL these US wars, Bush-Obama have failed to mention the US agenda of “special interests”: OIL, GAS and pipelines. Afghanistan : US planned war in Afghanistan long before September 11 (20.11.01. WSWS) Iraq: Iraq Oil: The Vultures are Waiting (09.10.07, Index Research – updated) Pakistan : (see section 2, below) Iran : Iran’s Oil reserves fourth largest in the world following the end of hostilities in 1989. (Global security) DIVIDE AND RULE: ‘Balkanisation’ has taken place in Afghanistan, Iraq and now Pakistan . Walls and barbed wire, reminiscent of Communist Russia, are now worldwide symbols of “democracy and freedom.” See Divide and Rule (Wikipedia) here . FEAR MONGERING: The above factors lead the US government to psychological “Fear mongering” the public into accepting America’s policy directions. Fear mongering was a strategy at which ex-VP Cheney excelled. The Obama administration has continued fear mongering. “National Security” is usually invoked. The above policies have resulted in: REFUGEES Afghanistan : 2006: 2.1 million (UNHCR); 1.7 million registered Afghans still remain in Pakistan March 2009, Iraq : 2 Million Displaced Iraqis inside of Iraq ; 3 Million Iraqis forced to leave the country. (26.03.09. BRussels Tribunal, Let the Numbers Speak) Pakistan : 3.4 million refugees (30.05.09. Dawn) CIVILIAN DEATHS Afghanistan: Karzai has always been, and is still, complaining about Afghan civilians murdered by American airstrikes, including the most recent in Farah Province , where 140 were killed, including 93 children. No records have been kept of the total number of dead civilians. Iraq : Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation “We don’t do body counts.” US General Tommy Franks . Pakistan : Censorship. No count made. LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY US must do more to prevent war crimes: UN rapporteur (29.05.09. JURIST) NO CLEAR EXIT STRATEGY: In Iraq there is a lack of a clear exit strategy. There are also no U.S. exit strategies for Afghanistan and Pakistan. (Much more at uruk.net)

Spy Chips Guiding CIA Drone Strikes, Locals Say

• By Noah Shachtman

It sounds like a tinfoil hat nightmare, come to life: tiny electronic homing beacons, guiding CIA killer drones to their targets. But local residents and Taliban militants in Pakistan’s tribal wildlands say that’s exactly what’s happening. Tribesman in Waziristan are being paid to “plant the electronic devices” near militant safehouses, they tell the Guardian. “Hours or days later, a drone, guided by the signal from the chip, destroys the building with a salvo of missiles.”

Ever since 9/11, locals in Central Asia and the Middle East have spread tall tales about American super-technology: soldiers with x-ray glasses, satellites that can see into homes, tanks with magnetic, grenade-repelling armor. But small radio frequency or GPS emitters have been commercially available for years. A veteran spy tells Danger Room that the use of these Taliban-tracking devices entirely plausible.

“Transmitters make a lot of sense to me. It is simply not possible to train a Pashtun from Waziristan to go to a targeted site, case it, and come back to Peshawar or Islamabad with anything like an accurate report. The best you can hope for is they’re putting the transmitter on the right house,” says former CIA case officer Robert Baer.

Herndon, Virginia-based defense contractor EWA Government Systems, Inc. is one of several firms that boasts of making tiny devices to help manhunters locate their prey. The company’s “Bigfoot Remote Tagging System”  [MUST SEE devices the size of coins] is a “very small, battery-operated device used to emit an RF [radio frequency] transmission [so] that the target can be located and/or tracked.”

The tag has sophisticated power management features to allow use over a long period of time (months)… Each tag can be installed on a witting or unwitting person, material, vehicle, ship, etc. Power is supplied by installed battery or host power source. The tag can be augmented with GPS to allow data logging for later exfiltration or geo-fencing functions (on/off when inside defined geographic boundaries). Bigfoot provides the warfighter with real-time tracking intelligence on potential adversaries conducting threat activities.

Word of these tiny transmitters has been circulating in militant circles for months. In early April, the Pakistani Taliban leader Mullah Nazir said he had caught “spies” who were inserting into militants’ phones “location-tracking SIMs” — Subscriber Identity Module cards, used to identify mobile devices on a cellular network.

Ten days later, 19 year-old Habibur Rehman made a videotaped “confession” of planting such devices, just before he was executed by the Taliban as an American spy. “I was given $122 to drop chips wrapped in cigarette paper at Al Qaeda and Taliban houses,” he said. If I was successful, I was told, I would be given thousands of dollars.”

But Rehman says he didn’t just tag jihadists with the devices. “The money was good so I started throwing the chips all over. I knew people were dying because of what I was doing, but I needed the money,” he added. Which raises the possibility that the unmanned aircraft — America’s key weapons in its covert war on Pakistan’s jihadists and insurgents — may have been lead to the wrong targets.

One much-disputed Pakistani media report claimed that the drones have killed hundreds of civilians, just to take out a few militants. That’s unlikely. But what’s indisputable is that the robotic planes (and the innocent deaths they’re alleged to cause) have become increasingly controversial, both in Pakistan and in America.

“Anti-U.S. sentiment has already been increasing in Pakistan… especially in regard to cross-border and reported drone strikes, which Pakistanis perceive to cause unacceptable civilian casualties,” Gen. David Petraeus, head of U.S. Central Command, wrote in a secret assessment, obtained by the Washington Post. “Thirty-five percent say they do not support U.S. strikes into Pakistan, even if they are coordinated with the GOP [government of Pakistan] and the Pakistan Military ahead of time.”

But Pakistani and American intelligence officials swear the drones are getting more accurate. “There are better targets and better intelligence on the ground,” on Pakistani official tells the Post. “It’s less of a crapshoot.”

– Noah Shachtman and Adam Rawnsley

[Photo: USAF]

Mehsud Fighter Interview From the Last Army Offensive in S. Waziristan

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[Except for the talk of US pipelines, this Dariya Khan fellow echoes the complaints of Maulvi Nazeer, SEE: As-Sahab: English transcript of the interview with Mulla Nazeer Ahmad, the amir of the mujahideen in the South Waziristan Because of Musharref and Bush playing around in Waziristan Pakistan is inviting attacks.  Obama continuing the insane war policies of Bush and Cheney is a recipe for further disaster.  If Obama refuses to break with Cheney and Bush, then Gen. Kayani should break with Obama and Holbrooke. ]

Dariya Khan

There is no Arabs, there is no Uzbeks in Waziristan.  Our families are being murdered by Pakistan.  Denied the bombing of girls schools.  We are encouraging both male and female to go and study and go to school.  Its these same Pakistanis who blow up the schools and then blame it on the Taliban.  We do not want this Punjabi government ruling over our lands.  We don’t want any Americans on our land.  The Pakistanis state they are going into Waziristan to help the people.  They in reality only go there to murder our people and even murder the most youngest child.

Do not worry, we in Waziristan have a big plan ready to finish off all the Pakistani soldiers very soon.  Everyday I wonder why did Pakistan attack Waziristan and why have they been doing it for the last six years?  The Pakistanis have been fighting in Waziristan all for a American oil pipe.  America told Pakistan we need this oil so we need to build this pipeline.  So we made it very clear, we will not allow any Americn pipeline on any Pashtun land.  So this is the reason why America told Pakistan to kill Pashtuns in Waziristan.  So this is why they bomb us, because we do not agree with the terms set by the Pakistani Army and America.

So Pakisstan then by force murders Pashtuns in Waziristan so they can build their oil pipe.

I want to tell all my Pashtun people that unite and get together as one.  Understand your real enemy.  We should make our own government and our own country.  With what is going on to us, it is very important for us to create our own state and country.  If we don’t create it, then we will all be destroyed by Pakistan and America.  Without a separate state for Pashtuns we will all be lost and disunited and this is what Pakistan/America wants.

Preparing for World War III

Written by Robert Singer

The following Glossary, abbreviations and essay will help the reader understand how  Albert Pike Grand Master of the Luciferian group known as the Order of the Palladium wrote a letter dated August 15, 1871 that graphically outlined plans for World War III that was seen as necessary to bring about the One World Order.

The Third World War must be fomented by taking advantage of the differences caused by the “agentur” of the “Illuminati” between the political Zionists and the leaders of Islamic World. The war must be conducted in such a way that Islam (the Moslem Arabic World) and political Zionism (the State of Israel) mutually destroy each other. Meanwhile the other nations, once more divided on this issue will be constrained to fight to the point of complete physical, moral, spiritual and economical exhaustion…We shall unleash the Nihilists and the atheists, and we shall provoke a formidable social cataclysm … Then everywhere, the citizens, obliged to defend themselves against the world minority of revolutionaries, will exterminate those destroyers of civilization, and the multitude, disillusioned with Christianity, whose deistic spirits will from that moment be without compass or direction, anxious for an ideal, but without knowing where to render its adoration, will receive the true light through the universal manifestation of the pure doctrine of Lucifer, brought finally out in the public view. [1]

Judaism: Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud.

Zionism: an organization of Jews who believed the Jewish people needed a nation of their own to escape persecution.

RothIsm or Rothschildism: abbreviation for The Zionist movement corrupted and co-opted by The House of Rothschild and their agents to advance a New World Order agenda.

RBZJ: The Rothschild Backed Zionist Jews, acronym used when referring to anyone connected to or related to the House of Rothschild.

RAGENT: Abbreviation for a Rothschild Agent

The House of Rothschild (the Rothschilds): Global financial empire founded in the late 18th century by a dynasty of Khazars, an ancient people from Georgia. [2]

The Rothschilds control a vast portion of the world’s wealth and are the hidden hand behind all the social-cataclysms: the French, Russian and American Revolutions; Communism, Capitalism, World Wars and the Modern State of Israel. The Rothschilds are not the Jews of the bible and do not practice Judaism.

Mel Gibson would have been correct if he had claimed, The Rothschilds are responsible for all the wars in the world. The “Labour Leader” newspaper of Britain on December 19, 1891 referred to the Rothschilds when they wrote:

This blood-sucking crew has been the cause of untold mischief and misery in Europe during the present century, and has piled up its prodigious wealth chiefly through fomenting wars between States which ought never to have quarreled.  Wherever there is trouble in Europe, wherever rumors of war circulate and men’s minds are distraught with fear of change and calamity you may be sure that a hook-nosed Rothschild is at his games somewhere near the region of the disturbance (ibid, p. 12).

In “Imperialism,” writer J. A. Hobson wrote:  “No Great War could be undertaken by any European State…if the house of Rothschild and its connections set their face against it” (ibid, p, 25).

The “Labour Leader” did not use the term Jew because the Rothschilds are the descendants of Khazars; they are not of Abraham’s Seed.

Rothschild founded and funded the Zionist movement to further a New World Order agenda. At the first Zionist conference Theodor Herzl, a Rothschild agent (Ragent) makes it clear Rothschildism (RothIsm)  is not about saving Jews,

It is essential that the sufferings of Jews….become worse….this will assist in realization of our plans….I have an excellent idea….I shall induce anti-Semites to liquidate Jewish wealth….The anti-Semites will assist us thereby in that they will strengthen the persecution and oppression of Jews. The anti-Semites shall be our best friends. [3]

UN Resolution (GA 181)

August 29, 1897 Theodor Herzl, the founder of RothIsm at the First Zionist Congress predicted that within fifty years there would be a Jewish state. UN Resolution (GA 181) partitioned Palestine in 1947.

RothIsm is a political movement to encourage, force if necessary, Jews to move to Palestine. All Jews were encouraged; it didn’t matter if you were of Abraham’s seed, you left for Palestine or else.

Herzl picking 1947 as the end of the Diaspora and the return of the Jews to the “Holy Land” is either one of those “bizarre coincidences”, like the same person winning the lottery three weeks in a row, or the partition of Palestine, finalized in 1947, was part of Rothschilds plan for a New World Order, “to effect complete and total control over every human being on the planet and to dramatically reduce the world’s population by two thirds.”

Rothschild’s secret societies, The Bavarian Illuminati, Order of Perfectibilists, the Skull and Bones are no longer classified as prehistoric science fiction and have their origins in the ancient religions and the occult: Jesuits, Knights Templar, Rosicrucians, Freemasons and the Kabbalah.

In 2003, 60 Minutes aired a segment about Alexandra Robbins, staff member at the New Yorker. Robbins, a Yale graduate, penetrated the wall of silence around the Skull and Bones, the American branch of Rothschild’s secret society and authored the best seller Secrets of the Tomb: Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power.

Members of the Skull and Bones include some of the most powerful men of the 20th century.

J.P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Abraham Kuhn and Solomon Loeb are all connected to the Rothschilds Global financial empire and secret societies. They are members of the Federal Reserve, the Bank of England, France, and Germany or, for that matter, any central bank anywhere in the world.

RothIsm was not-so-secretly funded when Baron Edmond (Binyamin) de Rothschild purchased 90,000 acres in Palestine launching Israel’s future initially as an agricultural society.  After the early settlers arrived, they wanted Rothschild to “take his hands from it.” Baron Edmond responded,  “I created the Yishuv, I alone. Therefore no men, neither colonists nor organisations have the right to interfere in my plans”

Lord Moyne, the British Secretary of State in Cairo, in 1942 tried to interfere in Baron Edmond’s plan when he declared  “the Jews were not the descendants of the ancient Hebrews and that they had no “legitimate claim” on the Holy Land. In favor of limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine, he was accused of being “an implacable enemy of Hebrew independence,” and on November 6, 1944 Lord Moyne was murdered by two members of the Stern Gang (Yitzhak Shamir’s group). [4]

A Jewish State, a sacrilege, can be found in the Bible

A Jewish state can be found in the book of Revelation. John, an Apostle of Jesus on the Isle of Patmos in 90 A.D., was told to “Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter.” John wrote:

And they will tread the holy city underfoot for forty-two months (1279 days). And I will give power to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in Sackcloth. Revelation 11:2&3

Herzl correctly predicted the 1947 UN partition but John, in the spirit, was taken up into heaven and saw that the holy city would be underfoot for forty-two months given over to non-Jewish people until 1967 (688 A.D. + 1279 years), when in the first hours of the Six-day war Jews took control of East Jerusalem and the prophesy in Sackcloth ended when they had their own state on May 14th 1948 (688 A.D. + 1260 years). [5]

Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, believed RothIsm is “the work of Satan, a sacrilege, a blasphemy” and The Holocaust, he wept, “was a direct result of RothIsm, a punishment from G-d.”

Rothschild was well aware of Jewish history and Jews, according to the Christian New Testament, persecuted and crucified Jesus Christ and most of his early followers. America’s traditional churches in the 19th Century would never stand for a Jewish occupation of Jesus’ homeland.

Rothschild Backed Zionist Jews (RBZJ) and a con artist Cyrus Scofield were used to change America and its religious orientation by the use of the Scofield Reference Bible from Oxford University Press.

Scofield, after being released from prison was introduced to Samuel Untermeyer, the President of the Koren Hayesod, and the RothIsm movement in America.

Untermeyer, an attorney, was instrumental in preparing the Federal Reserve Banking law in 1910, and the financing of Scofield’s Reference bible.

The Scofield bible has hundreds of easy-to-read footnotes in the margins and at the bottom of the pages that misleadingly weave parts of the Old and New Testaments together as though the same people wrote them at the same time. The most convincing evidence of RothIsm influence on Scofield are the notes themselves, below are examples taken from the revised 1967 Edition:

For a nation to commit the sin of anti-semitism brings inevitable judgment.

God made an unconditional promise of blessings through Abram’s seed to the nation of Israel to inherit a specific territory forever.

In fact there is no sin of anti-semitism in the bible and Abraham did not bequeath a “specific territory” to his descendants.

Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell weave Scofield’s “Jews” into Genesis 12:3, “And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” and falsely conclude:

God has blessed America because America has blessed the Jew. If this nation wants her fields to remain white with grain, her scientific achievements to remain notable, and her freedom to remain intact, America must continue to stand with Israel.

John McArthur, author, pastor at Grace Community Mega-Church came up with a “Just War” explanation for the Iraq War because of Scofields “specific territory” note. On CNN he told Larry King, “Iraq is ‘a just war’ because Iraq has not only rejected the Gospel of Jesus Christ, but has done everything it can possibly do to stamp out the people of God, namely Israel.”

Robertson, Falwell and McArthur because of Scofield, ignore the central tenets of Christianity:  Seeking peace and loving one’s enemies, “Peace be with you, that the meek and those who work for peace — rather than the powerful and violent — are blessed by God.”

Then he will say to those on his left (Robertson et all), ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ “They will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ “He will reply, ‘I tell you the truth, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’ MT 25:41

Pre-millennialism, Dispensationalism, Judeo-Christianity and “Christian Zionism” all rely on the Scofield footnote “A Curse Laid Upon Those Who Persecute The Jews” to justify the Iraq war and Israel’s human rights violations in Gaza and the West Bank. [6]

It is impossible to overstate the influence of Cyrus Scofield and the Oxford Press on twentieth-century Christian and Jewish sectarian beliefs. With limitless advertising and promotion, the Scofield Bible became the most important instrument for spreading the message of Christian Zionism: that the Modern State of Israel is the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.

Uganda is not Jerusalem

In 1903, Joseph Chamberlain, the British Colonial Secretary, brought the “Uganda Project”, a Jewish settlement in East Africa, to Theodore Herzl. Herzl initially rejected the idea but the April 1903 Kishinev pogrom, the Medieval Outbreak where 49 Russian Jews were killed, 92 severely wounded, 500 slightly wounded changed his mind and he recommended the controversial solution as a temporary measure.

Herzl did not live to see the rejection of the Uganda Plan in 1905. He, and further discussion of a homeland other than Palestine, died unexpectedly when Herzl was 44.

David Wolfson succeeded Herzl but he failed to convince the Young Turks to give up Palestine after the Ottoman Empire collapsed. Dr. Otto Warburg (related to Paul and Max, Rothschild’s agents) was put in charge and the movement was moved to Berlin.

WWII is over but not for the Palestinians

The war ended in 1945 and after the bitterest episode in Jewish history the refugees were moved from Concentration to Displaced Persons camps until the world was willing to give the Holocaust survivors the Palestinian’s Land.

As the United Nations debated a resolution to divide the Palestinian land, the UN- appointed mediator Count Folke Bernadotte thought the resolution offended

Basic principles to prevent these innocent victims of the conflict [Palestinians were not to blame for the Holocaust] from returning to their homes, while Jewish immigrants flood into Palestine and, what’s more, threatening to permanently replace the dispossessed Arab refugees who have been here for centuries.” He described, “Zionist pillage on a grand scale and the destruction of [Palestinian] villages without apparent military need.

His report (U.N. Document A. 648) was filed on September 16, 1948.  The next day Count Bernadotte and his assistant were assassinated in the part of Jerusalem occupied by the Zionists. [7]

Finally the British navy attacked the 4,500 Holocaust survivors (“Exodus 1947”) on their way to Palestine and a Rothschild Homeland was a fait accomplis.

On May 14, 1948, the British Mandate over Palestine expired and Rothschild had established the Jewish State, located in the only place in the world that could have a clash of civilizations, Jerusalem.

The Jews return to the “Holy Land” portends Armageddon.

Armageddon, the final battle, will come when someone blows up the Dome of the Rock. That magnificent golden domed mosque built on the site of Solomon’s Temple (the abomination of desolation) is preventing the return of the messiah. Radical Christians and Jews believe Christ will not come back to earth until the Jews rebuild the Temple.

Should the Dome be demolished, then for the first time in history, thanks to Sadaam Hussein when he destroyed 90 percent of Iraq’s Wetlands, 200 million people could cross the Euphrates for a holy war in Jerusalem. [8]

A war that will rid the planet of millions of useless eaters.

The Rothschild New World Order only needs 500 million of us for slaves.

Part 2: World War I, II: Providence, Miracle, or What Really Happened

Part 3: Adolph Hitler: Providence, Miracle, or What Really Happened

Part 4: How did Hitler lose the war: Providence, Miracle, or What Really Happened

Footnotes

[1] 4. Cmdr. William Guy Carr: Quoted in Satan: Prince of This World, Albert Pike received a vision, which he described in a letter that he wrote to Mazzini, dated August 15, 1871. http://www.threeworldwars.com/albert-pike2.htm

[2] Shlomo Sand, When and How the Jewish People was Invented, Arthur Koestler,   The Thirteenth Tribe, published in 1976.

[3] From the diaries that Theodor Herzl kept between 1895 and 1904 — Part I, pp. 16

[4] Original document in German Auswertiges Amt Archiv, Bestand 47-59, E224152 and E234155-58. Complete original text published in: David Yisraeli, The Palestinian Problem in German Politics 1889-1945 (Israel: 1947) pp. 315-317.

[5] The Mosque of Omar built in 688 A.D., The Dome of the Rock is the correct identification of the abomination of desolation. Biblical scholars acknowledge the words of Ezekiel who wrote, “I have appointed thee each day for a year.” http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/9109

[6] Reverend Jerry Falwell erroneously denied that many evangelicals opposed the U.S.-led war in Iraq. Appearing opposite Sojourners editor-in-chief Reverend Jim Wallis on the February 11 edition of FOX News’ Hannity & Colmes, Falwell called Wallis’s claim that “evangelicals around the world were against the war in Iraq” “baloney” and remarked: “You could fit your [antiwar evangelical] crowd in a phone booth.” After Wallis told Falwell that “there are evangelical Christians who don’t share your pro-war views,” Falwell replied, “I know — you and William Sloane Coffin.” Coffin is a longtime peace activist and former Yale University chaplain.

[7] For the assassination of Count Bernadotte see the report sent to the UN the same day as the attack (17 September 1948) by General A. Lundstrom (who was sitting in Bernadotte’s car). See also the book published by the same general for the 20th anniversary of the crime : L’assassinat du Compte Bernadottel, printed in Rome (pub. East. A. Fanelli) in 1970 under the title : ‘Un tributo a la memoria del Comte Folke Bernadotte’. Also Ralph Hewins’ book : ‘Count Bernadotte, his life and work’ (Hutchinson, 1948). And in the Milanese weekly Europa’, Baruch Nadel’s confessions (quoted in Le Monde, 4 and 5 July 1971).

[8] In 1994, 60 percent of the wetlands were destroyed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. They were drained to permit military access and greater political control of the native Marsh Arabs.

US Embassy Is Helping Recruit Pakistan Government Spies

US Embassy Is Helping Recruit Pakistan Government Spies

Senior U.S. diplomats have recently arranged a limited reception in Islamabad where senior civil servants were invited to meet an Indian diplomat suspected of being an intelligence officer. Is this the new mission of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad?

By ZAID HAMID

Monday, 1 June 2009.

WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—While Pakistan is busy in battling a foreign-funded local proxy Taliban in Swat, Malakand and other areas, the Americans and the Indians are exploiting a distracted Pakistani state to recruit influential Pakistanis as spies.

The American embassy in Islamabad is acting as facilitator in hiring influential Pakistani government officials. U.S. diplomats in Islamabad are facilitating meetings between Pakistani officials and Indian intelligence officials representing RAW.

A few days back one such recruitment attempt came to the fore when the American envoy, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson, arranged a function at the residence of a senior American diplomat – 152 Margala Road, Islamabad – wherein top Pakistani officials were invited from Capital Development Authority, DA, Prime Minister Secretariat, Police department, federal cultural agencies and a professor from the Quaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad.

Among those honored with an invitation by the U.S. envoy is the Chairman of CDA Tariq Mehmood, Joint Secretary Prime Minister Secretariat Amna Imran, Superintendent Police Mir Waiz Niaz, Director of the Pakistan National Council of Arts Naeem Tahir, Director Lok VersaKhalid Javed, and Professor Amir Bhatti of Quaid-e-Azam University Islamabad.

The more shocking aspect of this entire episode is the fact that the only non-U.S. foreign diplomat invited to this party was non-other than Mr. Rajinder Kumar Sherma who is an undercover RAW operatives acting as visa councilor at the Indian High Commission Islamabad.

The Pakistani nation has the right to ask the above mentioned Pakistani officials under what capacity did they attended that function and under which authority they were introduced to a RAW operative? What is the purpose of their introduction to the Indian intelligence agency and why U.S. is so eager to play a role of facilitator in this campaign for consolidating Indian intelligence assets in Pakistan?

The U.S. and Indians have already started spending huge amounts of money to buy Pakistani opinion makers. The main concern of the Americans and the Indians at this stage is to carry out propaganda against Pakistan and especially against its armed forces. This is a new tactic that has been introduced to get influential Pakistani civilian officials onboard to supplement CIA and RAW psy-ops and disinformation campaign. This is very disturbing.

Due to the prevailing security situation in Pakistan, foreign diplomats and especially the Americans and the British ones, have virtually confined themselves to the security of the Diplomatic Enclave and have limited their social activity to well guarded cocktail parties. In such a situation they resort to arrange such receptions to get inside information and influence those at top positions in civil departments.

Though such functions are not seen as anything strange provided the function is open for officials from different countries but when the attempt is purely made for facilitating the introduction of top Pakistani civilian officials suspected local representatives of Indian intelligence then indeed the Pakistani security institutions should take notice of such activities.

We are already facing grave security problems due to militants’ activities. In such a scenario, we cannot afford to ignor such attempts by the U.S. and India because of their potential to the harm security of the country.

Apart from being vigilant to such anti-Pakistan activities by these countries, Pakistan needs to introduce rules and regulations that banning officials from attending such diplomatic meetings.

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Extra U.S. troops in Afghanistan by mid-July

By Golnar Motevalli

KABUL, May 31 (Reuters) – The majority of the 17,000 extra U.S. troops being sent to fight a growing Taliban-led insurgency in southern and western Afghanistan should be on the ground by mid-July, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

A further 4,000 troops are arriving to train Afghan security forces and they will be deployed by August.

Washington pledged to send 21,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to reinforce security ahead of presidential elections scheduled for Aug. 20 and to support NATO-led troops which have struggled to fight an escalating insurgency there.

“10,000 Marines are beginning to arrive now and will continue to arrive for the next month and a half or so and they will be principally located in Helmand but also in Farah,” said Colonel Greg Julian, spokesman for U.S. forces.

Helmand province, in southern Afghanistan and Farah in the west are among the areas that have seen the fiercest fighting as insurgents gathered strength in recent years, despite the presence of a growing number of foreign troops.

“Everyday we are faced with suicide bombers, an increased number of improvised explosive devices,” said General Zaher Azimy, spokesman for the Ministry of Defence.

“If the violence wasn’t increasing there would be no need for the presence of foreign forces and Afghan forces themselves could handle this issue.”

Some 7,000 U.S. army troops are also being deployed to southern Kandahar province.

“3,500 are already on the ground in Kandahar with additional helicopters. Following that an additional 3,500 army troops will arrive in Kandahar and will be located in rural areas of that province,” Julian told a news conference.

All 21,000 troops will be deployed by August, another U.S. military spokesman said, but declined to comment further.

The 4,000 training troops will be sent mainly to south and west Afghanistan and more than half will train and mentor Afghan police, who are a younger force than the Afghan army and have suffered from poor training, illiteracy and corruption.

The Afghan National Army (ANA) has also expanded its forces to 90,0000 troops from about 83,000, and will boost numbers further for the August poll, Azimy said.

“Currently we have 90,000 ANA forces and we expect to increase this number during the elections to 95,000 forces as well as the additional forces of the Afghan National Police and the international forces,” he told journalists.

The Afghan army, described by U.S. military officials as a success story, now leads more than twice as many military operations per week in Afghanistan, compared with this time last year, a spokesman for NATO-led forces said.

(Editing by Dean Yates)

Pakistan plan to attack Taliban haven promises wider war

By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Waziristan, the remote area that’s the epicenter of Taliban and al Qaida militants in Pakistan, is set to become the next war zone in the nation’s fight against Islamic extremists, where clashes between insurgents and the army erupted over the weekend.

So far, there are just skirmishes in Waziristan but the key U.S. ally plans a full-scale military offensive there this summer, according to Pakistani and Western officials, a fight that is certain to be deadlier than the current operation in Swat valley and with profound international repercussions.

Western leaders have repeatedly said that international terrorist plots are being hatched in Waziristan, while the area provides a sanctuary for Afghan insurgents and al Qaida leaders, possibly including Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al Zawahiri.

South Waziristan, a part of the wild tribal territory that lies along the Afghan border, houses Pakistan’s public enemy number one, warlord Baitullah Mehsud, who has thousands of armed followers around him. The insurgency across the country is fueled by fighters and suicide bombers sent by Mehsud. North Waziristan is also under the control of a Taliban warlord.

Pakistani forces are making rapid progress through Swat valley, in the North West Frontier Province, and they’ve previously claimed to have cleared two other areas that were under Taliban domination, Bajaur and Mohmand, which are part of the tribal territory.

But the specter of Waziristan, the fountainhead of extremism, now looms.

“The final battle will be fought in South Waziristan,” said Asad Munir, formerly head of military intelligence for the tribal area and the North West Frontier Province. “They’ve started it (the offensive against the insurgents) and if they leave it mid-way, they should be mentally prepared to hand this country over to the Taliban. They have to complete it. There is no other way.”

Pakistan has launched multiple operations against Taliban on its soil since 2004 but critics say that each time they have been half-heartedly pursued and ended with a truce that left the militants in control, including a peace deal in South Waziristan in early 2008.

But, under intense international pressure, the current offensive in Swat, and before that the recent operation in Bajaur, have finally hit the insurgents hard.

Failure now would hugely embolden the militants, Asad said. Taking back Swat and the tribal area, especially Waziristan, would deny the insurgents the vast tracts of territory that they now control, where training camps and schools for indoctrinating suicide bombers are freely run.

While Washington and other western allies pressed Pakistan to take action in Swat, which lies just 100 miles from the capital Islamabad, the valley is not thought to be a significant base for Afghan insurgents or al Qaida. But Waziristan is seen by Western countries, from the United States to Spain, as crucial to their homeland security.

“Waziristan is at the heart of Western counter-terrorism interests in this region,” said a Western security official based in Pakistan, who could not be named because of the sensitivity of the issue. “Waziristan would hit the sweet spot for us. But we’d rather not have a campaign than a campaign (in Waziristan) that failed.”

Waziristan provides a crucial safe haven to Afghan insurgents, as well as a launching pad for Pakistani jihadists heading to Afghanistan. It is also a headquarters for international terrorists.

The offensive in Swat has led to bloody terrorist reprisals, with a chilling threat issued last week by the Taliban to escalate the attacks by striking some of Pakistan’s biggest cities.

Revenge for army action in Waziristan could cause carnage across the country, severely testing hard-won public support for taking on the Taliban, even destabilizing the country. It would also add to the humanitarian crisis of people displaced by fighting, which stands now at some 3 million.

Militarily, Waziristan poses a huge challenge to Pakistani forces. Its harsh mountainous terrain is ideally suited to guerrilla warfare, while the Taliban is concentrated in the area, where they have been entrenched for years, allowing them to build tunnels, bunkers and fortifications.

Unlike Swat, where the population largely welcomed the army once they saw that it was a serious operation, the fierce tribal people of Waziristan are deeply hostile to outsiders, including the Pakistani military.

South Waziristan, covering 2,500 square miles, has lawless regions to three sides — North Waziristan to the north, Baluchistan province to the south and the Afghan province of Paktika to the west, providing ready escape routes to the insurgents.

Analysts said that a successful operation would need to seal off South Waziristan, especially the option of retreat into Afghanistan, requiring strong co-ordination with the U.S.-led forces across the border. Joint Pakistan-U.S. planning for the operation is likely to be underway, mirroring the collaboration undertaken last year when the Bajaur offensive began and U.S. forces intercepted fleeing Pakistani Taliban in the bordering Afghan province of Kunar. The Waziristan campaign should coincide with the arrival of the extra “surge” of U.S. troops in Afghanistan.

“They should co-operate with the Americans and employ the classic ‘hammer and anvil’ technique, with Pakistan forces isolating South Waziristan and pushing them (the Taliban) towards the border,” said Javed Hussain, a former Brigadier with Pakistan’s Special Services Group commando unit. “That’s where the American forces should act as the anvil, and the Pakistani forces as the hammer. In between the two, the insurgents are crushed.”

The operation in Swat valley, launched on 7 May, could be over in “two to three days” senior Pakistan defense official Syed Athar Ali told a conference in Singapore Sunday. There is speculation that Waziristan could follow as early as this month (June), though July or August may be more likely given the need to stabilize Swat.

Sensing the coming showdown, Taliban in South Waziristan have started to attack army bases and check posts in the area, with 25 militants and at three soldiers reported killed by the authorities Sunday.

Shah is McClatchy’s special correspondent in Pakistan and is based in Islamabad.

Mazuz: Lieberman Would Not Be FM in a Normal Country

Readers Number : 47 01/06/2009 Attorney General Menachem Mazuz on Monday leveled harsh criticism against the appointment of Avigdor Lieberman as Israeli foreign minister, saying, “A normal country would not have gotten into this situation.” He stressed, however, that “had I believed that the legal system should prevent such a situation, I would have said it as I did in other situations.” Mazuz also said that the legal system cannot be the only tool used to shape norms in the public arena, and that a normal society must establish additional means of control. The Israeli attorney general made his comments at an annual attorneys’ conference in Eilat. The attorney general explained that “the governmental system in Israel is not doing its job properly. The public arena in Israel is stammering and speaking in two different languages. There are those who defend these phenomena and those who transgressed. “People suspected of criminal offenses are appointed as ministers, and a convicted felon resumes his ministerial role. These are failures of the public system. There are questions presented to the legal system, which is unable to provide a proper answer to these phenomena.” He also leveled criticism against former Israeli Minister Haim Ramon, who was charged last year with committing indecent acts yet remains in office. Mazuz said that the Ramon case and Lieberman’s appointment are two examples of the government’s failure to denounce public servants who have transgressed.

“Suicide” of Israeli Officer Linked to Spying Cells in Lebanon?!

Hussein Assi Readers Number : 215

01/06/2009 A high-ranking officer in a sensitive position in the Israeli occupation’s Military Intelligence committed suicide on Sunday, Israel’s Channel 2 television reported… The news is too simple: an Israeli officer committed suicide, and that’s it. The reasons, motives and repercussions of the “suicide act” remain vague and ambiguous amid reports about a “sensitive” nature of the officer’s work. At least, this is what the Israelis want… Yet, big question marks were immediately raised and a link was built between the suspicious and surprising suicide at this specific timing at one side and the ongoing collapse of the Israeli Mossad-linked networks all over Lebanon. Indeed, and according to Israeli media, the suicide officer, or perhaps the killed officer, used to occupy a “sensitive” post within the Israeli intelligence. The officer, a 43-year-old major, was a married father of two. He had served for many years in various functions in MI’s electronic intelligence-gathering unit, 8200. Israeli media warned that the discovery of the “sensitive” missions of the mentioned officer would be very harmful to the security of the Zionist entity. It seems, however, obvious that the “sensitive” arena of expertise of the “suicide man” is the Lebanese battleground that witnessed lately a sequential breakdown of the Israeli spying networks. But does the mentioned officer hold “secrets” concerning this file? And does Israel intend to hid something that could change hypotheses made in Lebanon concerning a series of security incidents that took place during the last three years? According to the Israeli Television’s military correspondent Nir Dfouri, the officer’s suicide surprised lots of people within the Israeli intelligence. “Actually, he’s a high-ranking officer who occupied a very sensitive post within the Israeli intelligence,” he said. However, he noted that all options remain open. “The first conclusion was that he committed suicide. But this doesn’t deny other possibilities,” he said, hinting that the Israeli officer might have been killed. It was also remarkable that the Israeli media spoke of “shock” and “confusion” within the circles close to the “suicide officer” who denied knowing anything about his intention to commit suicide. The Israeli police is, meanwhile, focusing its investigation on a series of letters left by the officer knowing that there doesn’t to seem any relation between the letters and the officer’s killing.