Ammo Dump Explosion Controversy Over Old Israeli Ordinance

Report: Foreign Ministry Says Israeli Ammunition Caused Khirbet Selm Blast

The Lebanese foreign ministry reportedly informed the United Nations that the Khirbet Selm explosion on July 14 went off in a building under construction and the ammunition was left over by the Israeli army.
Pan-Arab daily al-Hayat said Monday that the foreign ministry informed the U.N. about the alleged cause of the blast through a letter. The world body, however, has said that the explosion went off at a Hizbullah weapons depot in violation of Security Council resolution 1701.

Meanwhile, An Nahar newspaper quoted informed sources as saying that a meeting could be held Monday at the Tebnin Serail between UNIFIL commander Maj. Gen. Claudio Graziano, Lebanese army intelligence representatives, MPs Hassan Fadlallah and Ali Bazzi, and Khirbet Selm mayor.

The sources said efforts were exerted to contain the July 18 clash between Khirbet Selm residents and U.N. peacekeepers by holding a meeting between the two sides. But it was later agreed to hold the talks in Tebnin after the attempts to bring the two sides together failed over disagreement on several minor issues.

Parade of US Officials Begging Israel for More Time

US says parade of officials visiting Israel purely coincidental

Bethlehem – Ma’an/Agencies – US President Barack Obama will dispatch four of his most senior foreign policy advisors to Israel this week.

The visits seemed designed to pressure Israel on two issues, ending illegal settlement activities and holding off on attacking Iran.

But that all four officials will arrive in Israel almost consecutively was purely a scheduling coincidence, American officials have insisted, according to the AP.

US Mideast peace envoy George Mitchell was the first to announce his visit, expected to arrive in Israel on Tuesday for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on restarting stalled peace talks.

“He wants to be clear that, you know, all sides are creating the conditions, putting themselves in position so that when we begin a formal negotiating process, we’ve put ourselves in the best position to have a successful outcome,” US State Department spokesman PJ Crowley said of the visit on Friday.

Mitchell’s planned talks this Tuesday would be the first of three scheduled meetings not to be cancelled by the Israelis, the Hebrew-language Yedioth Ahronoth has reported. A meeting scheduled earlier this month was postponed at the last minute, while one scheduled for Paris in June was cancelled altogether.

Mitchell was to arrive in Israel last Sunday before the cancellation was announced, with some sources telling the paper they speculated it was because Netanyahu’s new administration had not yet managed to seal a deal with the Americans on illegal settlements.

The prior meeting was supposed to be between Mitchell and Ehud Barak, Israel’s defense minister. Barak has lately been handling such responsibilities due to the perception that Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman would be biased in favor of the colonies, one of which he calls home near the West Bank city of Bethlehem.

Both the US and France summoned their Israeli ambassadors last week over a planned settlement in East Jersusalem. Israeli officials responded in force, accusing the Americans of meddling and insisting that all of Jerusalem is their capital. However the international community, including the US and France, has never signed on to Israel’s claims on East Jerusalem.

Meanwhile, the US is sending over three other officials in an apparent attempt to persuade Israel not to attack Iran over its alleged nuclear program.

US Defense Secretary Robert Gates is expected on Monday, but American officials insisted his visit was routine. National Security Advisor James Jones and former Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross were to arrive later in the week, as well as some Treasury Department officials.

The Controversial Battle of Wanat

Battle of Wanat. Image from Army Times

Report: US Commanders ‘Incompetent’ Over Nine Soldiers Killed In Afghan Battle Of Wanat — The Telegraph

An unpublished report into one of the US Army’s darkest days, when nine soldiers were killed by the Taliban at a remote Afghan outpost, has branded their commanders incompetent.

The official report into the battle of Wanat, on July 13 last year, describes the bravery of soldiers who kept fighting even after they were hit. One mortally wounded soldier continued to pass ammunition as he lay dying, and his comrades’ bravery and professionalism ensured that the outpost was never overrun.

But cocksure officers conducted themselves so poorly before the battle that they angered the local villagers whom they were supposed to win over, the report states.

Its findings highlight serious concerns as the US is throwing an extra 23,000 battle-weary troops into a war that is being increasingly questioned in the United States.

The battle showed the increasing military sophistication of the Taliban, and highlighted the vulnerability of combat forces which are now fanning out across Afghanistan in small units with orders to engage with villagers.

After an initial Army investigation which was dismissed by critics in the military hierarchy as whitewash, Douglas Cubbison, a military historian was commissioned to produce a more honest assessment.

His report is directed squarely at US commanders in the field. It suggests that if they do not apply the Army’s counterinsurgency doctrine and protect local populations, they could meet the same fate as their fallen comrades at Wanat.

Named after a remote wooded valley near the Pakistan border north east of Kabul, the battle began just before dawn when a force of guerrillas estimated at between 50 and 200 in number, threw themselves at the remote US outpost.

Volleys of rocket-propelled grenades rained down as the Taliban swarmed across the steep valley.

They quickly knocked out the American heavy weapons – a 120 millimeter mortar, a TOW missile system, and a .50 calibre machine gun. The 45 soldiers and three Marines at the base along with a small Afghan National Army contingent were soon in a fight for their lives.

It felt like “about a thousand Rocket Propelled Grenades at once,” Army Specialist Tyler Hanson later told an Army investigator. The Taliban moved in to within feet of the Americans, making it impossible to call in airstrikes.

They threw rocks into the Americans’ foxholes, hoping the soldiers would mistake them for grenades and jump out. “The whole time we were thinking we were going to die,” said Specialist Chris McKaig.

When the fighting ended, an hour later, nine US soldiers were dead and 27 were wounded, a 75 per cent casualty rate, which has not been suffered since the Vietnam War.

Details of the draft army report were first revealed by Thomas Ricks on his Foreign Policy blog. Mr Ricks, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer on military affairs, said it was significant that the report emerged from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas – the last command of General David Petraeus before he took over as commander for Afghanistan and Iraq.

Gen. Petraeus wrote the Army’s counterinsurgency doctrine which instructs US officers to work with and protect local populations, a marked change of strategy for an army which has always valued firepower and aggression above all else.

“This unit gave lip service to he policy of working with locals,” Mr Ricks said, “and this report is a way for people like Petraeus to say, ‘you think you’re doing counterinsurgency, but your not. And you’re getting our soldiers killed.” The battalion commander in Wanat claimed after the battle that he has been conducting a classic counterinsurgency campaign while ‘living with the population’.

This, the report concluded, was not an accurate account.

“This was not the case in the Waigal Valley, where the paratroopers occupied only two combat outposts, and had almost no interaction with the population,” the report stated.

A statement from one machine gunner in the unit summed up the general attitude to locals: “We didn’t interact with them…they didn’t come near us and we didn’t go near them,” Another soldier added: “These people, they disgust me…everything about those people up there is disgusting. They’re worthless.”

The brigade commander, Col. Charles Preysler, and the battalion commander, Lt. Col. Ostlund, come in for lacerating criticism. Neither responded to queries. Col. Preysler, has previously stated that the Wanat outpost was never intended to be a “full-up combat outpost,” or COP. “That is absolutely false and not true,” he said after the battle.

“So, from the get-go, that is just [expletive] and it’s not right.”

However the report found this misleading, because there were extensive plans for construction of a “permanent outpost,” with walls, housing and sewage control.

The report criticised the commanders for their “highly kinetic approach”, using the military jargon for aggressive military action. The report found that they shot first and asked questions later, which “inevitably degraded the relationships between the US Army and the population.” In addition a US helicopter attack before the battle on some trucks passing through the valley killed doctors and other health care workers, angering villagers.

Petition on Shah Abdul Aziz Abduction, Alleging May 27 Arrest

Islamabad High Court issues notices to defence, interior secretaries and SSP

Saturday, July 25, 2009
By Faisal Kamal Pasha

Islamabad

Islamabad High Court (IHC) Judge Justice Amjad Iqbal Qurashi Friday issued notices to secretaries of defence and interior ministries as well as senior superintendent of police (SSP), Islamabad, in a habeas corpus petition of former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz.

The petition was filed by Mehboob Elahi and Khalid Khawja on June 22 for his release. According to petitioners, Shah Abdul Aziz was abducted and kept in illegal confinement at the Aabpara Police Station.

During last hearing in the case, the Aabpara Police Station SHO, in his written reply, had told the court that Shah Abdul Aziz was neither in the custody of Aabpara Police Station nor its policemen arrested him. The deputy attorney general (DAG) had also denied the arrest of Shah Abdul Aziz with Fidaullah.

Shah Abdul Aziz is the vice chairman of Defence of Human Rights.

As per details furnished by the petitioner, Shah Abdul came to Islamabad to meet former ‘khateeb’ of Lal Masjid Maulana Abdul Aziz. After the meeting when Shah Abdul Aziz was leaving the residence of Maulana Abdul Aziz some unidentified persons kidnapped him along with Fidaullah who was accompanying him.

The petitioner then moved an application for registration of an FIR against unidentified kidnappers. Upon which, the deputy commissioner, Islamabad, directed the ASP City to proceed according to law and provide relief to relatives of the kidnapped men.

The petitioner had alleged that concerned authorities failed to take any action whatsoever. Moreover despite repeated requests of the petitioner, the officials did not register an FIR, he said.

On June 1, the SSP, Islamabad, held a press conference in which he stated that police had arrested Fidaullah, a terror suspect wanted in numerous cases.

The petitioner had adopted before the court that both Shah Abdul Aziz and Fidaullah were abducted together by some unidentified persons and after Fidaullah’s custody was disclosed there was a possibility that his brother had also been kept at the same place.

He had prayed to the court to order the production of his detained elder brother and also order his release.

The court would resume hearing in the case on July 31.

In another case, 105 officers of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs had withdrawn their case against the posting of Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan, a grade 20 officer, as ambassador to France after the prime minister rejected the summary of his posting.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials had filed a writ petition, challenging the posting of the officer. They had claimed that Muhammad Jahanzeb Khan was a grade 20 officer whereas he had been given a post of grade 22 officer. They had also adopted before the court that the president has no powers to directly appoint an ambassador. As per rules, the Foreign Office sends three names to the prime minister for approval and he has the authority to choose and then the president endorses the decision.

Obama Needs More Mercenaries

US ask offers for private guards in Afghanistan

Updated at: 1220 PST, Sunday, July 26, 2009 KABUL: U.S. military authorities in Afghanistan may hire a private contractor to provide around-the-clock security at dozens of bases and protect vehicle convoys moving throughout the country. The possibility of awarding a security contract comes as the Obama administration is sending thousands of more troops into Afghanistan to quell rising violence fueled by a resurgent Taliban. As the number of American forces grow over the next several months, so too does the demand to guard their outposts.

Pakistan’s Latest “Double-Game” Reveals Possible Baitullah Mehsud/PakArmy Connection

[According to this excellent analysis, Shah Abdul Aziz is being set-up to take the fall as contractor for local suicide attacks, after delivering a letter from Mehsud to Gen. Kayani.   It says that the planned "Waziristan offensive" is a ruse to punish Mehsud, before accepting him back into the Army's loving arms. {Obama is going to love this.}  The so-called "Anti-Mehsud Taliban" is supposedly now led by some "Baba" character, who have squeezed-out Maulvi Nazir, along with Turkestan Bhittani, who will probably represent the next "bad Taliban," .   If Mehsud is really a US/Indian agent, and the Pak Army is preparing a new alliance with him against the new (would that be neo-neo-neo-Taliban?) "anti-Taliban," then is this the back door to Gen. Kayani's surrender to both India and the US?  Under this new formula, Indian troops would be welcome alongside American and Pakistani troops in the imaginary "hunt for bin Laden."]

Pakistan’s South Waziristan puzzle

By Syed Shoaib Hasan, Islamabad BBC News Friday, 24 July 2009
What is Pakistan’s government up to in South Waziristan?

Since the middle of May, the army has been conducting a military offensive against Pakistan’s Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud – whose hideout lies in the mountainous terrain there.

But unlike the recent operation in the Swat valley, it says it has refrained from going all out against the militants so far.

The reasons for this are not exactly clear.

The army says it wants to surround the militants and use air power and artillery to ”soften them up”.

“We are just punishing them at the moment,” says Maj General Athar Abbas, head of the army’s public relations wing.

“This is so that when the operation starts they can’t stand up to us. We have surrounded the entire area where the Taliban are based,” he says.

If this is true, the army appears in a prime position to fulfil its mission to “eliminate” Baitullah Mehsud and his organisation.

But it appears in no mood to begin the much-heralded military assault which already has a name – Rah-e-Nijat or Path to Deliverance.

“We are waiting for the right time to launch the operation,” says Gen Abbas.

Taliban truce?

But the fact that people have had to wait so long for a serious assault on militants has led to fears, not without precedent, about a possible deal between the army and the Taliban.

One of the allegations concerns correspondence between Baitullah Mehsud and the head of Pakistan’s army.

Maj Gen Athar Abbas flatly denied the report.

“The army will not even consider such a possibility. This is utter speculation,” he said.

Gen Abbas said the army was fully committed to its goal of defeating the Taliban.

But there are those who feel the army and the Taliban are engaging in battle only because of certain “misunderstandings”.

Foremost among these is Shah Abdul Aziz, a former Pakistani parliamentarian.

He has been trying to negotiate a truce between Pakistan’s security forces and the Taliban. For some time Mr Aziz has acted as a mediator between the government and the Taliban and other extremists.

He enjoys very close relations with the Taliban leadership and with radical clerics such as the head of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz.

Mr Aziz played a key role when in 2007 Pakistani security forces laid siege to the Red Mosque after dozens of radical Islamists barricaded themselves inside.

He was a key figure in mediating between the mosque administration and the government. Although that episode ended with troops storming the mosque killing scores of militants, Mr Aziz has continued in his role as a negotiator.

He was the man behind the Taliban’s statement that it would cease operations against the army in December 2008, soon after the Mumbai attacks.

Missing letter

Mr Aziz’s most recent project has been to try and “resolve” the stand-off between Baitullah Mehsud and the government.

In this regard, he is said to have delivered a letter from Baitullah Mehsud to General Ashfaq Kayani, the head of Pakistan’s army.

Subsequently, Mr Aziz has gone missing amid reports he was arrested outside the house of radical cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz.

“He was picked up on the morning of 27 May along with a man called Fidaullah,” says Khalid Khawaja, an ex-ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence agency] official turned human rights activist.

Fidaullah was later produced by the Islamabad police in a highly publicised press conference as the “mastermind” of a spate of recent suicide bombings.

Mr Aziz, however, has not been heard from.

Senior security officials have told the BBC that he is in detention and being interrogated for his links with Baitullah Mehsud.

They say a letter was discovered on his person from the Taliban commander, but it was for a former head of Pakistan’s ISI agency.

The letter is said to discuss the various alternatives available to Baitullah Mehsud and his militants.

But officials deny any letter addressed to the army chief was found or even existed.

Mr Khawaja, a close confidant of Mr Aziz, denies that his friend was in any way directly involved in planning or abetting militant acts.

“He was a peaceful and well intentioned man,” he says.

“Shah Abdul Aziz did not want a conflict to take place between the Taliban and the army as it would cost the nation dear.

“I have been trying to register a police complaint for his recovery, but the police have refused to act so far,” Mr Khawaja says.

As far as the mysterious letter letter to the head of Pakistan’s army is concerned, Mr Khawaja confirms its authenticity.

“I have seen the letter, and it is has now been delivered to its destination,” he says.

These developments come days after a pro-government tribal leader accused the government of making a deal with Baitullah Mehsud.

Turkistan Bhittani, leader of the anti-Baitullah Mehsud group in Waziristan, had until recently been accorded the complete support of Pakistan’s security forces.

But, on 14 July, he accused the authorities of closing down his offices in the Dera Ismail Khan district bordering Waziristan.

“The government is openly supporting the Baitullah group and allowing it to re-establish itself,” he told reporters.

Although, the government strongly rejects any such suggestion, every previous operation against the Taliban has ended in a peace deal.  [SEE: Anti-Mehsud Leader Blasts Government Media Disinformation]

Pakistan’s South Waziristan puzzle
By Syed Shoaib Hasan, Islamabad BBC News Friday, 24 July 2009
What is Pakistan’s government up to in South Waziristan?

Since the middle of May, the army has been conducting a military offensive against Pakistan’s Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud – whose hideout lies in the mountainous terrain there.

But unlike the recent operation in the Swat valley, it says it has refrained from going all out against the militants so far.

The reasons for this are not exactly clear.

The army says it wants to surround the militants and use air power and artillery to ”soften them up”.

“We are just punishing them at the moment,” says Maj General Athar Abbas, head of the army’s public relations wing.

“This is so that when the operation starts they can’t stand up to us. We have surrounded the entire area where the Taliban are based,” he says.

If this is true, the army appears in a prime position to fulfil its mission to “eliminate” Baitullah Mehsud and his organisation.

But it appears in no mood to begin the much-heralded military assault which already has a name – Rah-e-Nijat or Path to Deliverance.

“We are waiting for the right time to launch the operation,” says Gen Abbas.

Taliban truce?

But the fact that people have had to wait so long for a serious assault on militants has led to fears, not without precedent, about a possible deal between the army and the Taliban.

One of the allegations concerns correspondence between Baitullah Mehsud and the head of Pakistan’s army.

Maj Gen Athar Abbas flatly denied the report.

“The army will not even consider such a possibility. This is utter speculation,” he said.

Gen Abbas said the army was fully committed to its goal of defeating the Taliban.

But there are those who feel the army and the Taliban are engaging in battle only because of certain “misunderstandings”.

Foremost among these is Shah Abdul Aziz, a former Pakistani parliamentarian.

He has been trying to negotiate a truce between Pakistan’s security forces and the Taliban. For some time Mr Aziz has acted as a mediator between the government and the Taliban and other extremists.

He enjoys very close relations with the Taliban leadership and with radical clerics such as the head of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz.

Mr Aziz played a key role when in 2007 Pakistani security forces laid siege to the Red Mosque after dozens of radical Islamists barricaded themselves inside.

He was a key figure in mediating between the mosque administration and the government. Although that episode ended with troops storming the mosque killing scores of militants, Mr Aziz has continued in his role as a negotiator.

He was the man behind the Taliban’s statement that it would cease operations against the army in December 2008, soon after the Mumbai attacks.

Missing letter

Mr Aziz’s most recent project has been to try and “resolve” the stand-off between Baitullah Mehsud and the government.

In this regard, he is said to have delivered a letter from Baitullah Mehsud to General Ashfaq Kayani, the head of Pakistan’s army.

Subsequently, Mr Aziz has gone missing amid reports he was arrested outside the house of radical cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz.

“He was picked up on the morning of 27 May along with a man called Fidaullah,” says Khalid Khawaja, an ex-ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence agency] official turned human rights activist.

Fidaullah was later produced by the Islamabad police in a highly publicised press conference as the “mastermind” of a spate of recent suicide bombings.

Mr Aziz, however, has not been heard from.

Senior security officials have told the BBC that he is in detention and being interrogated for his links with Baitullah Mehsud.

They say a letter was discovered on his person from the Taliban commander, but it was for a former head of Pakistan’s ISI agency.

The letter is said to discuss the various alternatives available to Baitullah Mehsud and his militants.

But officials deny any letter addressed to the army chief was found or even existed.

Mr Khawaja, a close confidant of Mr Aziz, denies that his friend was in any way directly involved in planning or abetting militant acts.

“He was a peaceful and well intentioned man,” he says.

“Shah Abdul Aziz did not want a conflict to take place between the Taliban and the army as it would cost the nation dear.

“I have been trying to register a police complaint for his recovery, but the police have refused to act so far,” Mr Khawaja says.

As far as the mysterious letter letter to the head of Pakistan’s army is concerned, Mr Khawaja confirms its authenticity.

“I have seen the letter, and it is has now been delivered to its destination,” he says.

These developments come days after a pro-government tribal leader accused the government of making a deal with Baitullah Mehsud.

Turkistan Bhittani, leader of the anti-Baitullah Mehsud group in Waziristan, had until recently been accorded the complete support of Pakistan’s security forces.

But, on 14 July, he accused the authorities of closing down his offices in the Dera Ismail Khan district bordering Waziristan.

“The government is openly supporting the Baitullah group and allowing it to re-establish itself,” he told reporters.

Although, the government strongly rejects any such suggestion, every previous operation against the Taliban has ended in a peace deal. Pakistan’s South Waziristan puzzle
By Syed Shoaib Hasan, Islamabad BBC News Friday, 24 July 2009
What is Pakistan’s government up to in South Waziristan?

Since the middle of May, the army has been conducting a military offensive against Pakistan’s Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud – whose hideout lies in the mountainous terrain there.

But unlike the recent operation in the Swat valley, it says it has refrained from going all out against the militants so far.

The reasons for this are not exactly clear.

The army says it wants to surround the militants and use air power and artillery to ”soften them up”.

“We are just punishing them at the moment,” says Maj General Athar Abbas, head of the army’s public relations wing.

“This is so that when the operation starts they can’t stand up to us. We have surrounded the entire area where the Taliban are based,” he says.

If this is true, the army appears in a prime position to fulfil its mission to “eliminate” Baitullah Mehsud and his organisation.

But it appears in no mood to begin the much-heralded military assault which already has a name – Rah-e-Nijat or Path to Deliverance.

“We are waiting for the right time to launch the operation,” says Gen Abbas.

Taliban truce?

But the fact that people have had to wait so long for a serious assault on militants has led to fears, not without precedent, about a possible deal between the army and the Taliban.

One of the allegations concerns correspondence between Baitullah Mehsud and the head of Pakistan’s army.

Maj Gen Athar Abbas flatly denied the report.

“The army will not even consider such a possibility. This is utter speculation,” he said.

Gen Abbas said the army was fully committed to its goal of defeating the Taliban.

But there are those who feel the army and the Taliban are engaging in battle only because of certain “misunderstandings”.

Foremost among these is Shah Abdul Aziz, a former Pakistani parliamentarian.

He has been trying to negotiate a truce between Pakistan’s security forces and the Taliban. For some time Mr Aziz has acted as a mediator between the government and the Taliban and other extremists.

He enjoys very close relations with the Taliban leadership and with radical clerics such as the head of Islamabad’s Red Mosque, Maulana Abdul Aziz.

Mr Aziz played a key role when in 2007 Pakistani security forces laid siege to the Red Mosque after dozens of radical Islamists barricaded themselves inside.

He was a key figure in mediating between the mosque administration and the government. Although that episode ended with troops storming the mosque killing scores of militants, Mr Aziz has continued in his role as a negotiator.

He was the man behind the Taliban’s statement that it would cease operations against the army in December 2008, soon after the Mumbai attacks.

Missing letter

Mr Aziz’s most recent project has been to try and “resolve” the stand-off between Baitullah Mehsud and the government.

In this regard, he is said to have delivered a letter from Baitullah Mehsud to General Ashfaq Kayani, the head of Pakistan’s army.

Subsequently, Mr Aziz has gone missing amid reports he was arrested outside the house of radical cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz.

“He was picked up on the morning of 27 May along with a man called Fidaullah,” says Khalid Khawaja, an ex-ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence agency] official turned human rights activist.

Fidaullah was later produced by the Islamabad police in a highly publicised press conference as the “mastermind” of a spate of recent suicide bombings.

Mr Aziz, however, has not been heard from.

Senior security officials have told the BBC that he is in detention and being interrogated for his links with Baitullah Mehsud.

They say a letter was discovered on his person from the Taliban commander, but it was for a former head of Pakistan’s ISI agency.

The letter is said to discuss the various alternatives available to Baitullah Mehsud and his militants.

But officials deny any letter addressed to the army chief was found or even existed.

Mr Khawaja, a close confidant of Mr Aziz, denies that his friend was in any way directly involved in planning or abetting militant acts.

“He was a peaceful and well intentioned man,” he says.

“Shah Abdul Aziz did not want a conflict to take place between the Taliban and the army as it would cost the nation dear.

“I have been trying to register a police complaint for his recovery, but the police have refused to act so far,” Mr Khawaja says.

As far as the mysterious letter letter to the head of Pakistan’s army is concerned, Mr Khawaja confirms its authenticity.

“I have seen the letter, and it is has now been delivered to its destination,” he says.

These developments come days after a pro-government tribal leader accused the government of making a deal with Baitullah Mehsud.

Turkistan Bhittani, leader of the anti-Baitullah Mehsud group in Waziristan, had until recently been accorded the complete support of Pakistan’s security forces.

But, on 14 July, he accused the authorities of closing down his offices in the Dera Ismail Khan district bordering Waziristan.

“The government is openly supporting the Baitullah group and allowing it to re-establish itself,” he told reporters.

Although, the government strongly rejects any such suggestion, every previous operation against the Taliban has ended in a peace deal.

Former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz held on charges of killing Polish engineer

RAWALPINDI: Attock Police have arrested former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz on the charges of his alleged involvement in assassinating Polish engineer, Piotr Stanczak.

According to details, a member of Tehrik Taliban Pakistan and a terrorist Atta Ullah Khan who was arrested from Sabzi Mandi of Islamabad confessed that they had killed more than 50 persons including security forces, government officials and Polish engineer on the directives of former MNA Shah Abdul Aziz.

Atta Ullah further disclosed that he had assisted more than 15 suicide attacks and was involved in several incidents of target killing.

It is reported that District Police Attock of Basal Police station have formally arrested Shah Abdul Aziz, while the Judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi, Baqir Ali Rana has sent Shah Abdul Aziz on three day judicial remand.

It is also worth mentioning that Shah Abdul Aziz was missing since long time and a petition was also under hearing in the Islamabad High Court in this connection.

Earlier, Shah Abdul Aziz was produced in the ATC Rawalpindi amid tight security. Police and Commandos personnel were also deployed on the occasion. The ATC Judge, Baqir Ali Rana had already left for home. However, after knowing the nature of case, he returned in the court and approved three day judicial remand of the Shah Abdul Aziz.

National Health Care Is A Trick. The Slaves of The Modern Era Will Be Bound Not With Chains But With Pills & Debt

[We are all "Plantation Negroes" these days, Denmark.]

National Health Care Is A Trick. The Slaves of The Modern Era Will Be Bound Not With Chains But With Pills & Debt

Denmark Vesey said …
After the Emancipation Proclamation, only a handful of freed slaves immediately separated themselves from their former masters. Lacking either the resources or will to be free, the vast majority elected not to leave the security and safety of the plantation.

These partially emancipated slaves (sharecroppers) transitioned to a new economic and political reality, that bound them to the land, made them politically impotent, and kept them in perpetual debt. Stuck in the matrix of a simultaneously adversarial yet completely dependent relationship with the Plantation, these people became the first Plantation Negros.

The Plantation Negro reasoned, at least he could eat, even though he was not free. They were fed a diet designed to keep them alive, while costing the plantation as little as possible. However, early plantation negros were resilient and resourceful. They were able to supplement their diets with organic vegetables and naturally raised animals.

As the summer of the agrarian era evolved into a cold industrial winter, Plantation Negros developed relationships with the Factory. In exchange for safety and security, the Factory ensured the Plantation Negro a home. However, he remained politically impotent and as he was integrated into the culture of consumption, he became increasingly in debt.

Again, the Plantation Negro reasoned even though he was not free, at least he could eat. Tragically, now living in urban areas, the Plantation Negro was not able to supplement his diet by working the earth. The Factory filled this void by manufacturing cheap processed food which destroyed the organs of Plantation Negros and made disease inevitable. Now, added to the cost of housing and food, the Plantation Negro suddenly found himself saddled by something called Health Care costs.

What promised to be the spring of the Digital era witnessed a change in the relationship between the Plantation Negro and the Factory. It became a relationship between the Plantation Negro and the Corporation. In exchange for safety and security, the Plantation Negro was able to get multiple mortgages, credit cards, and school loans so the Plantation could educate his children.

Although he remained politically impotent and in insurmountable debt the Plantation Negro reasoned he could at least get Health Care.

As the bubble of the Digital era pops, the Plantation Negro finds himself wading in the tumultuous waters of economic upheaval, social collapse and an impending tsunami of disease. The Plantation that became the Factory which became the Corporation is now masquerading as the Government.

In exchange for safety and security, the Government provides housing by insuring mortgages, it finances debt and educates children. As an extension of its patronage, the Corpaorate / Government will continue to feed Plantation Negros an increasingly toxic diet of genetically modified food and prescription drugs, that not only makes them sick, but appears to sterilize the Plantation Population as well.

This year the Plantation / Factory / Corporate / Government is introducing a new product. It is called National (Plantation) Health Care. Sadly Plantation Negros think the same people who poisoned them are actually offering an antidote.

Excellent posts from Denmark Vesey

“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill … All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

“Political unification in some sort of world government will be required… Even though… any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” – Sir Julian Huxley, UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy.

Within the next 5 to 10 years it would be possible to produce a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired… It would probably be possible to make a new infective micro-organism which could differ in certain important respects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon which we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.

“At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?”

INITIATIVE FOR ECO-92 EARTH CHARTER

“The present vast overpopulation, now far beyond the world carrying capacity, cannot be answered by future reductions in the birth rate due to contraception, sterilization and abortion, but must be met in the present by the reduction of numbers presently existing. This must be done by whatever means necessary.”

“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski

Money-Laundering, Organ Selling, Influence-Peddling–the Israeli Connection

Court: Some Money-Laundering Cash May be From Israel

Readers Number : 101

26/07/2009 The source of at least some of the millions of dollars involved in money-laundering by five of the rabbis arrested last week came from Israeli sources, The Jerusalem Post has learned. According to court documents obtained by the Post, one of the rabbis detained, Eliahu Ben-Haim, used a source in Israel to supply money through “cash houses” in exchange for a 1.5 percent fee. The FBI revealed that among the 44 people arrested on Thursday was a second Israeli accused of sourcing cash. Authorities arrested Levi Deutsch, charging him with funding the bank checks that passed through the rabbis’ charitable organizations, according to court documents. Deutsch reportedly traveled frequently between Israel and New York, and told the FBI’s cooperating witness that his source of cash was the “diamond business” and “other things.” He also said he worked with a Swiss banker who charged “two, three points” per $1 million laundered through him. As details emerged following the dramatic sting, it appeared that the FBI case hinged on a key cooperating witness, believed to be Solomon Dwek. Dwek, a member of the Syrian Jewish community and the son of a prominent rabbi, Isaac Dwek, who is affiliated with Shas, was charged with bank fraud in 2006. Portrayed as a disgraced real estate mogul in media reports, Dwek was arrested by the FBI after he passed two $25m checks and immediately tried to withdraw $22m. One of the bad checks was deposited in a drive-up window at PNC bank. Dwek was forced into bankruptcy, with creditors – including an uncle – demanding hundreds of millions of dollars. But Dwek apparently began working with the FBI as a cooperating witness, infiltrating a money-laundering network in New Jersey and Brooklyn. The case also involved political corruption in New Jersey, when one of the money laundering suspects introduced Dwek to a building inspector who in exchange introduced him to public officials willing to accept cash for political favor. Dwek effectively posed as a shady real estate developer who passed money to lawmakers in exchange for support of his projects. The massive scandal broke Thursday morning, when hundreds of federal agents stormed 54 locations, rounding up political figures and prominent rabbis on charges of money laundering and political corruption. Prosecutors also charged Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, 58, of Brooklyn, for allegedly acquiring and trading human organs. According to prosecutors, Rosenbaum convinced people in Israel to donate their kidneys for $10,000 and then sold them for up to $160,000. Among those arrested Thursday were Hoboken Mayor Peter Cammarano, Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell, Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini, state Assemblyman L. Harvey Smith and state Assemblyman Daniel Van Pelt. Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez, who is also an attorney, is charged with agreeing to accept an illegal $10,000 cash payment for his legal defense fund. Cammarano said Friday he would not resign, and that the corruption charges filed against him were “baseless.” Cammarano is accused of accepting $25,000 in bribes from a federal informant posing as a real estate developer. In the case against the rabbis, federal agents arrested Kassin; Ben-Haim, 58, rabbi of Congregation Ohel Yaacob in Deal; Edmond Nahum, 56, of the Deal Synagogue; Mordechai Fish, 56, of Congregation Sheves Achim in Brooklyn; and Lavel Schwartz, 57, Fish’s brother. They were charged with money laundering, and according to the FBI, earned “significant” sums, typically between five to 10% per transaction. 5 rabbis were accused of trafficking in human organs. Most of the defendants facing corruption charges were released on bail. The money laundering defendants faced bail between $300,000 and $3 million, and most were ordered to submit to electronic monitoring.

Illuminati Mind Control and the Music Industry

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The Arab Slave Trade (what you should know and probably don’t)

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Writer Claims Israeli Commando Raid to Stir Hornet’s Nest (DISINFORMATION)

[See following quote: "Vaknin' sister is Sima Gil-Vaknin, the IDF's (Israel Defense Force's) Chief Censor (true) and Vaknin is a senior Israeli intelligence operative (which I deny emphatically)." ]

Attack on Iran: Israel Turns to Russia

Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. – 7/25/2009

Russian senior air defense officers, accompanied by mid-level diplomats have recently visited Israel. The discussions focused on Iran and their contents are only partly know. Israel may be asking Russia to leverage its growing influence within Iran to rein in the latter’s nuclear weapons agenda. In return, Israeli sources claim that Israel has shared with the Russian visitors intelligence, including hard to obtain HUMINT, about the Iranian leadership, its oil economy, and military. The Americans were apprised of the discussions. Israel asked Russia not to supply Iran with strategic air defense systems “in the next 3 months” (presumably, until after Israel’s aerial bombardment on Iranian facilities). Russia remained non-committal, “noting” Israel’s concerns.

Large-scale US Troop Movements Near Angoor Adda, Site of Previous Incursion

Movement of US, Nato troops worries Waziristan tribes

PESHAWAR/MIRAMSHAH: The movement of Afghanistan-based US and Nato troops over the past few days close to North and South Waziristan Agencies has frightened tribesmen, who are already under stress due to the increasing number of drone attacks and a possible military operation by the Pakistan Army. Official and tribal sources informed The News from the border villages of North Waziristan about the unusual movement of what they termed ìhuge numberî of the US and Nato forces along the Pak-Afghan border. They said the Nato troops were armed with helicopter gunships, tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and had started establishing camps and checkpoints along the border. The residents of border villages, including Dwatoi, Kazha Madakhel and Gorweek, said warplanes and helicopter gunships were seen flying over the border areas between the two neighbouring countries throughout the day. In some of the areas, the tribesmen claimed the planes violated Pakistanís airspace and flew over their villages. Villagers claimed that the US and Nato forces were brought to the border area in 80 vehicles amid tight security. A military official based in Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, said they had also received reports about the troop movement but could not confirm it. Wishing not to be named, he said Pakistanís armed forces were fully alert on their posts along the border with Afghanistan. ìThey often come to the border villages inside Afghanistan and return to their bases after some time. There is no need to be worried,î the official said. Tribal sources close to the Taliban in Afghanistan said there had been an unprecedented rise in attacks on the US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and their movement in the border areas could be an act of desperation. They said the foreign forces had particularly suffered losses in Helmand, Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces, which were close to Pakistanís restive South and North Waziristan tribal regions. Besides suffering casualties, the sources said, the Taliban militants had made some US and British soldiers hostage in Afghanistan. The movement of foreign forces close to Pakistanís border and establishment of the checkpoints, along the porous Durand Line, could be part of their strategy to stop the Taliban militants from shifting the kidnapped US and British soldiers to the adjoining tribal areas, said the sources. On September 3, 2008, the US-led foreign forces carried out their first-ever ground operation in the Pakistani territory, killing 15 Pakistanis, including women and children, in South Waziristanís Musa Nika village near Angoor Adda, close to Afghanistanís Paktika province. The tribesmen fear recurrence of such an attack.

PESHAWAR/MIRAMSHAH: The movement of Afghanistan-based US and Nato troops over the past few days close to North and South Waziristan Agencies has frightened tribesmen, who are already under stress due to the increasing number of drone attacks and a possible military operation by the Pakistan Army. Official and tribal sources informed The News from the border villages of North Waziristan about the unusual movement of what they termed ìhuge numberî of the US and Nato forces along the Pak-Afghan border. They said the Nato troops were armed with helicopter gunships, tanks and armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and had started establishing camps and checkpoints along the border. The residents of border villages, including Dwatoi, Kazha Madakhel and Gorweek, said warplanes and helicopter gunships were seen flying over the border areas between the two neighbouring countries throughout the day. In some of the areas, the tribesmen claimed the planes violated Pakistanís airspace and flew over their villages. Villagers claimed that the US and Nato forces were brought to the border area in 80 vehicles amid tight security. A military official based in Miramshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, said they had also received reports about the troop movement but could not confirm it. Wishing not to be named, he said Pakistanís armed forces were fully alert on their posts along the border with Afghanistan. ìThey often come to the border villages inside Afghanistan and return to their bases after some time. There is no need to be worried,î the official said. Tribal sources close to the Taliban in Afghanistan said there had been an unprecedented rise in attacks on the US and Nato forces in Afghanistan and their movement in the border areas could be an act of desperation. They said the foreign forces had particularly suffered losses in Helmand, Paktia, Paktika and Khost provinces, which were close to Pakistanís restive South and North Waziristan tribal regions. Besides suffering casualties, the sources said, the Taliban militants had made some US and British soldiers hostage in Afghanistan. The movement of foreign forces close to Pakistanís border and establishment of the checkpoints, along the porous Durand Line, could be part of their strategy to stop the Taliban militants from shifting the kidnapped US and British soldiers to the adjoining tribal areas, said the sources. On September 3, 2008, the US-led foreign forces carried out their first-ever ground operation in the Pakistani territory, killing 15 Pakistanis, including women and children, in South Waziristanís Musa Nika village near Angoor Adda, close to Afghanistanís Paktika province. The tribesmen fear recurrence of such an attack.

Anti-Mehsud Leader Blasts Government Media Disinformation

Anti-Baitullah group denies naming head

By Mushtaq Yusufzai

PESHAWAR: Qari Misbahuddin Mehsud, the brother of slain Qari Zainuddin Mehsud and commander of the Abdullah Mehsud group, on Thursday denied reports that they had nominated Ikhlas Khan Mehsud alias Waziristan Baba as central leader of their network.

“How could we nominate a person, who has no contribution to Jihad? He has never been part of the Taliban militants, led by late Abdullah Mehsud,” remarked Qari Misbahuddin, who called this correspondent from his Dera Ismail Khan secret abode.

Qari Misbahuddin said Ikhlas Mehsud alias Waziristan Baba had joined them two months ago, but he was expelled when Qari Zainuddin was alive, as he was sent by their rival Baitullah to create rift among their fighters. “We had decided to kill him, but he escaped and settled at Jandola,” said Misbahuddin.

The Frontier Region (FR) of Jandola — gateway to South Waziristan from east — is inhabited by the Bhittani tribe. He said they had asked their partner, Turkistan Bhittani, to either expel him from his territory or hand him over to his men to punish him according to the Shariah.

A section of the media on Wednesday reported Ikhlas alias Waziristan Baba as the new central commander of all the anti-Baitullah militant groups in South Waziristan, which Qari Misbahuddin said was untrue.

“The media should at least confirm such news before spreading it. We have a separate organisation, with our own Shura and even a spokesman to speak to mediapersons about our activities,” the militant commander complained. He said their network comprised of three separate militant groups, including the one he was leading, Turkistan Bhittani and the third one led by Commander Tehsil Khan Wazir in the Shakai valley in South Waziristan.

He said all of them had the same agenda to fight against Baitullah Mehsud, get their people rid of him, restore the writ of the government and revive their decades-old rich tribal traditions and customs to the region.

Interestingly, Maulvi Nazeer, who is the head of the Ahmadzai Wazir militants in South Waziristan, has resolved all his differences with Baitullah Mehsud and has become part of the Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen or Council for the United Holy Warriors, which they formed in February.

Besides both of them, Hafiz Gul Bahadur, who is the leader of the Utmanzai Wazir Taliban in North Waziristan, is also a member of the Shura Ittehad-ul-Mujahideen. Three of them during forging of the alliance had promised to support each other in case the government launched a military operation against any one of them.

It was because of their unanimous decision that Maulvi Nazeer and Hafiz Gul Bahadur later scrapped their peace agreements and announced to fight against the government and its armed forces.

Maulvi Nazeer and Gul Bahadur argued that they had scrapped their peace accord in protest at the silence of the government on frequent drone attacks in their regions. Misbahuddin, however, claimed that Maulvi Nazeer was still against Baitullah Mehsud, arguing that Tehsil Khan being his senior commander was part of their network fighting the TTP chief.

BJP asks Manmohan Singh to come clean on the source of the controversial India Pakistan joint statement

[SEE: How William Burns Was Unanimously Censored By India’s Free Media]

BJP asks Manmohan Singh to come clean on the source of the controversial India Pakistan joint statement
Kiran Chaube
Jul. 25, 2009

BJP leader Arun Jaitley challenges Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to confess on the external international pressures that resulted in a shameful anti-India joint statement endorsed by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

”The language of the Joint Statement between India and Pakistan is clear. The language is loaded against India.Unilateral explanations by either the Prime Minister or the ruling party cannot dilute the monumental lapse,” says Jaitley. Mammohan Singh is not the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Who wrote and agreed on the joint statement?

It is a shame that Pakistani terrorism is delinked from holding of composite dialogue with Pakistan. BJP and other political parties have criticised the mention of Balochistan instead. Was Manmohan Singh having a nap while agreeing on the statement? Who wrote the statement? Was it ISI? Was it CIA? Was it Chinese intelligence agency? Who was it?

BJP asks Manmohan Singh to come clean on the source of the controversial India Pakistan joint statement
Kiran Chaube
Jul. 25, 2009

BJP leader Arun Jaitley challenges Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to confess on the external international pressures that resulted in a shameful anti-India joint statement endorsed by the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

”The language of the Joint Statement between India and Pakistan is clear. The language is loaded against India.Unilateral explanations by either the Prime Minister or the ruling party cannot dilute the monumental lapse,” says Jaitley. Mammohan Singh is not the Prime Minister of Pakistan. Who wrote and agreed on the joint statement?

It is a shame that Pakistani terrorism is delinked from holding of composite dialogue with Pakistan. BJP and other political parties have criticised the mention of Balochistan instead. Was Manmohan Singh having a nap while agreeing on the statement? Who wrote the statement? Was it ISI? Was it CIA? Was it Chinese intelligence agency? Who was it?

Israeli Agent Confesses, Works for Everybody

Jarrah: I am a Double Agent, Hizbullah Commissioned Me to Blow Up Israeli Embassy in Rome

Press reports on Saturday said arrested Lebanese national Ali al-Jarrah currently on trial for espionage stated that he is a double agent working for both Israel and Hizbullah. Reports added that Jarrah was commissioned by Hizbullah to carry out a suicide attack inside the Israeli embassy in Rome, while carrying a briefcase full of explosives.
Jarrah’s statements were allegedly said in court during his trial.

On July 15 during his first court session, Jarrah requested to have a closed door trial ‘to say the truth that should reach the United Nations Security Council.”

He accused an unnamed party of “standing behind a case that does not concern me …I am a hero but after July 9th I was made an agent simply because I refused to carry out a single act.”

He called on the court to arrest his brother Khaled and his brother’s girlfriend “for wanting to place an item in my bedroom in exchange for $30,000, and this item is the truth.”

Jarrah added that while under arrest at Roumeih prison someone came to see him and told him to confess to his crime exactly in the manner he did earlier when being interrogated by Hizbullah “otherwise he would threaten my family.”

“I began working for Israel in 1982, as requested by the Palestinian Fatah movement, which he joined in 1976.

The first time Jarrah visited Israel was in 1990 via Rome. At the time he provided the Israeli with information about the Palestinian Intifada in exchange for $10,000, a three year pay.”

He added that he had a special night table next to his bed, which had a special sophisticated communications device, which he used to contact the Israelis when his family was away from home. Jarrah added that is family did not know the nature of his double life.

He was asked by the Palestinians in 1998 to end his contacts with the Israelis because of the peace process at the time. Jarrah was told by the Palestinians that they wouldn’t be able to protect him as before.

During the ‘Grapes of Wrath’ Israeli war on southern Lebanon in 1996, Jarrah built up his contacts with Hizbullah, and in 2001 he visited Israel, with the full knowledge of Hizbullah’s Security Chief Hajj Abbas.

While in Israel, Jarrah was received by his old recruiters who trained him on new communication methods. In the same year Jarrah visited Syria.

The next trial session is scheduled on October 2.

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Our American Train Wreck – By Accident or Design?

It is my firm belief that the Average American Family is in for some big shocks and some hard times with regards to their savings, civil rights, and the future direction of their country. And if these Americans shrink from their duty to get involved they won’t have to worry about the country their children will inherit – because somebody else will own it.

I base these opinions on information available mostly on the internet. Yes – the internet – the last bastion of free speech where even a JackRabbit can express views for the consideration of others. Will it last?

The election of Obama demonstrated that the public knows what they want – but for some reason they can’t get what they want. How is it possible to have elected Obama yet the war plan accelerates? Once again we get a smooth-talker who, exactly like GWB did upon election, acts in opposition to campaign promises. If you remember the debates – it was obvious who the corporate owned media deemed worthy of debate time and who they didn’t. Is it a coincidence that corporations benefit from Obama’s actions and the public suffers? Hmmm – how many times the president’s salary was spent getting him elected? No profit-first corporation spends money unless they expect a return on investment.

Jack Rabbit’s opinion – your average Joe-6-pack is oblivious to the geopolitical situation because he and wifee are working working working- paying usurious and arbitrary interest to monopoly lenders – paying for private school, paying ever-rising-prices for food as inflation kicks in, getting robbed on gasoline, car repairs, phone bills, car rental bills – basically everything. They are also completely in the dark because their media has been usurped by corporations with no interest in the public good – but in siphoning money into the CEO that runs the slum-like corporation. We used to call them slumlords – but somehow they’ve become great American heroes these American corporate CEOs – yes the robber-barons – perhaps because they, the robber-barons are the owners of the very media that treats the American public like mushrooms – keep’em in the dark and feed them sh#t. There is no longer any regulation of anything in the United States to the benefit of the average worker. As far as contracts are concerned the party who entered into the contract who is more well-heeled makes the rules. Those rules are the golden rule. Those with the gold rule. Speaking of gold – 2009 should be a good one for gold (IMO)- the metal you can hold in your hand. Liquid for sure. But six-pack Joe has no cash – just credit – which is worthless if you wish to purchase American Eagles.

What’s the problem? It’s complicated! Risking sounding “crazy” I’ll come out and say that it appears to me that we are being sold out in such a way that will ultimately end in one-world-government unless YOU become active to prevent it. The monetary crisis will provide the perfect lens with which to focus the masses to submit to emergency measures required to “fix” the problem – these measures, naturally, will require the surrender of RIGHTS. Is this a conspiracy theory? So what if it is? If it walks like a duck… I don’t know if it is or not but it seems reasonable to me that if group A wants to steal everything group B owns - that conspiracy is a given. There is plenty of info on this blog and those linked under Enlightenment. We Americans have tortured. We Americans are imprisoning people without trial. We Americans are firing missies via drone aircraft into sovereign nations. We Americans are occupiers. It is time to wake up -wise up – and stand up. Forget the money wasted on these misadventures of mass murder for a minute – think instead about sending kids to wars based on lies so corporations can profit. Take the most patriotic true believers – put a uniform on them – hand them a machine gun – and make them kill somebody else’s kids who are doing exactly the same thing. I ask you reader – what are you getting out of all this militarism? Hmmm I guess if you are employed by the war industry a paycheck. I hope it’s worth it.

Somehow the North American Union is on the Way (NAU) with or without public approval. This merging of Canada, USA, and Mexico seems to build itself as anyone you ask about it will deny it. Yet highways are planned. Our borders are unprotected. With the NAU, like the European Union preceding it, is rumored a new currency called the Amero which will be “necessary” (unConstitutional as it is) to solve the financial crisis. Oh and about the financial crisis – mostly a crisis for anybody who has to continue payments on their mortgage at the bubble-market prices. No relief in sight for us – but the banks get bailed out. I’ve read that 9.3 Trillion Dollars would have payed off EVERY MORTGAGE IN THE UNITED STATES – but whaddaya know – that’s not what was done with the phony “bailout” money – it went, it seems, to the same crooks that caused this mess in the first place. If this sounds crazy to you perhaps you can explain what you got out of the bailout – that is unless you work for Goldman Sachs.

Iran - Who the hell wants to send their kid to die in Iran? Send me your name, I’ll put you on a list, so the rest of us know not to mourn for your contribution to the conquest of sovereign nations with OUR OIL UNDER THEIR SOIL! I’m sorry for the rage – but what are you going to get personally out of an invasion of another country except higher taxes and the status of a modern-day Nazi in the eyes of the rest of the world. If you consider this writer paranoid – then is it reasonable for me to ask what word can be used to describe the American war on terror – where essentially we have to preemptively strike others (with real missiles killing real people) because of what they might do? How sane is that?

Iraq – WTF? WMD, blah blah blah. Yeah – Powell holds up a test tube of corn starch in front of the world at the U.N. and presto we go to war. Come to find out it was all fabricated, false, fake, lies. That’s what we were told and parents all over the U.S. sent their kids into a meat grinder. Lies. We are supposedly concerned about Iraqi civilization. Then WTF happened to all the antiquities from the museums of the cradle of civilization when America’s armed forces wrecked the place? The loss of Iraqs artifacts couldn’t have done much to help them understand their history any better could it? But our prez did specifically instruct them not to burn the oil wells. Do you remember that? Meanwhile irreplaceable, priceless artifacts vanish thanks to an absolute disregard to their importance. We’re from the American government and we’re here to help. To the average person it may seem too sick to fathom that anyone would invade another country for natural resources – after all we are talking about human life here. Is it possible that our leaders don’t share our values?

Afghanistan – This is an easy one – Opium poppy. Pre-911 Taliban wiped this crop out. America moves in- banner crop every year. I’m also old enough to remember when the Soviets tried to take the place – what a bloodbath – but now Amerika moves in because we are so much braver etc… than the rest of mankind including antiquity. Pat Tillman died in Afghanistan and we were told numerous lies about the circumstances – now it seems the man in charge during that fiasco – is – no – not demoted – put in charge of the whole place. Yeah that makes a lot of sense to me – NOT. What can explain such actions of our leaders?

Federal Reserve – don’t talk about this topic or your head may end up back and to the left.

Council on Foreign Relations – I prefer to call this the Presidents club. Get their podcast – see if you can predict the future of every single American decision before it happens! Give it a try!

911 WAS AN INSIDE JOB – yes, I’m finally able to understand that the American masses don’t have either the education or the time or the energy to understand the scientific findings pointing to nano-thermate and where such a thing comes from. The masses have also ben conditioned for many many decades to see no evil, speak no evil, and hear no evil when someone is called a “Conspiracy Theorist.” That’s really a testimonial for our education system which is ……..bad word. There is much evidence gathered via the ever-growing grassroots 911Truth movement demonstrating that the official conspiracy theory the American government fed to its mushroom-masses was a myth. Much info on this blog and the sites linked. This is not a small issue. Ignore at the risk of basing all future decisions upon false premises.

Military-mercenary-industrial-educational-lawenforcement-corporateprison complex – 1 in ten Americans live behind bars so we and they can BE SAFE. But I wonder how a pot-smoker can be safe sharing a cell with a murderer, rapist etc…????? I suppose I’ll have a chance to find out since the bullsh*t hate speech laws aimed at bloggers like myself who dare to exercise their right to free speech may eventually shut my “microphone” off. Great! Now you can get all of your information from the same “news” shills who simply serve the propaganda bleat of the day from their corporate masters. Do you really think someone on NBC can say something that will negatively effect the GE stock price? If you do I’ve got a bridge for sale. Our rights are inalienable – yet the wise men in our feckless fascist government are paving the way to silence critics via “hate” crime. How pathetically childish. Somehow it suits the majority of the mushroom-like American public. I’m sorry for the sarcasm but how many times does one have to be robbed until they can identify they are dealing with a robber?

Yes the U.S. Media Monopoly – well not a monopoly – maybe a tri-opoly? It’s that bad. The FCC is a toothless facade. They are not worth the expensive office space they consume. The FCC has failed in their mission – period. They don’t even have the courtesy to quit, go home, and stop sucking off the government teat. No, not teat, they are bloodsuckers – because as they drain public funds their inaction undermines the public good by depriving the VOTERS of opportunities to hear dissenting voices – by allowing media consolidation. The result? Even those Americans who try to inform themselves are stuck with paid corporate liars posing as newspersons. Dig around on this blog – consider these seemingly radical ideas like free speech and independent thought. Glen Beck says 911 truthers wanna’ kill Jews – this is more than a lie – this is disinformation aimed at diverting and confusing the public. Some news eh? Jack Rabbit thinks there is almost ZERO on TV, RADIO worth watching or listening to. Why? Just look at your stocks – it’s the economy stupid! If they are worth anything why weren’t you warned about your ENRON stock etc…? AIG? Perhaps a coincidence – yes that’s it! Popular Mechanics is a great example – do they get any ad money from the war industry? Do they work hard to “debunk” 911 Truth? Hmmmmm. Wait….I’m in business too… lemme think about this – lots of military ad money – nano thermite/thermate (unreacted) found in WTC dust – nano thermite comes from military-industrial-educational-mercenary complex – a connection? Absolutely NOT since this would imply a conspiracy. Forget that. Sorry.

Torture – On this topic – I am stuck. I cannot reconcile OSHA regulations and Torture chambers. Maybe it’s just me but all I can say is that OSHA needs to be disbanded because Americans don’t care about torture – unless that is – their precious little one is held captive in one of our occupied countries – then – suddenly – this becomes a horrible, medieval practice. Pure witchcraft……but don’t we have to burn them with cigs to get fake info to embark on corporate resource wars? Yes – I want cheap gasoline to go the beach which I never get because they raise the price every tourist season – but my kid is being tortured. That’s wrong – but I don’t care if they torture “terrorists” who’ve been named terrorists without a trial because they are Muslims – where is my Happy Meal?

Americans – my fellow “citizens” (and I use that term loosely) – WAKE THE FLOCK UP! Your country, and most importantly, your Bill of Rights is being stolen from you for the interests of… Who? Israel is one for sure. The answer to this question you will have to figure out for yourself. The answers are on this blog, at the sites linked, and possibly apparent on your credit card statement.

Finally – a word of encouragement. The powers manipulating the American system are those who take the time, interest, and money to do so. The American system works perfectly – the most involved parties overcome. If you are not involved – you will be overcome by those who are. That is the absolute bottom line. Don’t forget it.

Death of prominent Tajik highlights instability in Central Asia’s southeast

15.07.2009 09:53

Author: Bruce Pannier, RFE/RL

The mysterious death of one of Tajikistan’s best-known public figures is focusing attention on what many consider to be the deteriorating security situation in southeastern Central Asia.

The death of former Emergency Situations Minister Mirzo Ziyoev during a security operation on July 11 came at the end of a week in which armed groups in eastern Tajikistan clashed with police on two separate occasions, giving new life to rumors of armed militants arriving in the country from Afghanistan.

Ziyoev, one of the top military commanders of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO) during Tajikistan’s 1992-97 civil war, came from the Islamic wing of the UTO. After the 1997 peace agreement, he was eventually given his ministerial post as part of the power-sharing deal that ended the civil war. The ministry was disbanded in 2006.

Ziyoev had reportedly traveled to Tajikistan’s remote eastern Tavil-Dara area several weeks ago, shortly after reports that another former UTO field commander, Mullo Abdullo, had returned to Tavil-Dara in May with some 100 armed fighters. Abdullo had gone to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban in 2000 but was believed to have been captured and jailed.

Tajik authorities conducted what they said was an antidrug operation in the area shortly after the news of Abdullo’s purported return. Few were fooled as to the operation’s real purpose, however, since the altitude of the region prohibits poppy or cannabis cultivation

Overthrow The Government

Adding to the puzzle was an announcement by Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry on July 11 that Ziyoev had been arrested as part of a security operation in the Tavil-Dara area. The ministry claimed Ziyoev was planning to overthrow the government, was helping to open up a new route for shipping illegal narcotics from Afghanistan through Tajikistan, and had been illegally storing weapons in the Tavil-Dara area.

Hours later, however, Tajik authorities said Ziyoev had been killed while trying to help government forces negotiate with an armed group there.

“During the operation in the Surkhob valley village of Aghba, an illegal group of gunmen suddenly attacked and killed Mirzo Ziyoev,” an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Tajik authorities say the armed group was made up of fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) who allegedly accompanied Abdullo back to Tajikistan. Tavil-Dara was both a base for Islamic fighters of the UTO during the civil war and later served as an IMU base when the militants staged incursions into Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the summers of 1999 and 2000.

Someday Return

Central Asia has been relatively quiet since 2001, when U.S. forces delivered crushing attacks on the IMU and Taliban in Afghanistan. But there have been concerns for several years that elements of the IMU who fled to Pakistan’s tribal areas could someday return to Central Asia. And with the Pakistani military stepping up its campaign in its northwestern tribal areas, and U.S. and Afghan forces stepping up their military efforts in Afghanistan, some believe that time may have come.

In late May, unknown assailants set off explosives at an Uzbek border checkpoint, then attacked police in the border town of Khanabad. The armed group then vanished. Later that same day, a suicide bomber killed a policeman in the city of Andijon.

On July 11, Uzbek authorities announced that 10 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks. All those taken into custody were from the area around the town of Khanabad and some, according to Uzbek authorities, had connections in Kazakhstan.

Across the border in Kyrgyzstan, security forces in late June conducted operations against Islamic militants that left at least 11 people dead. Since June 23, Kyrgyz security forces have killed at least nine people they say were IMU fighters. One member of the Kyrgyz security forces and a border guard have also been killed.

Death of prominent Tajik highlights instability in Central Asia’s southeast

15.07.2009 09:53

Author: Bruce Pannier, RFE/RL
The mysterious death of one of Tajikistan’s best-known public figures is focusing attention on what many consider to be the deteriorating security situation in southeastern Central Asia.

The death of former Emergency Situations Minister Mirzo Ziyoev during a security operation on July 11 came at the end of a week in which armed groups in eastern Tajikistan clashed with police on two separate occasions, giving new life to rumors of armed militants arriving in the country from Afghanistan.

Ziyoev, one of the top military commanders of the United Tajik Opposition (UTO) during Tajikistan’s 1992-97 civil war, came from the Islamic wing of the UTO. After the 1997 peace agreement, he was eventually given his ministerial post as part of the power-sharing deal that ended the civil war. The ministry was disbanded in 2006.

Ziyoev had reportedly traveled to Tajikistan’s remote eastern Tavil-Dara area several weeks ago, shortly after reports that another former UTO field commander, Mullo Abdullo, had returned to Tavil-Dara in May with some 100 armed fighters. Abdullo had gone to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban in 2000 but was believed to have been captured and jailed.

Tajik authorities conducted what they said was an antidrug operation in the area shortly after the news of Abdullo’s purported return. Few were fooled as to the operation’s real purpose, however, since the altitude of the region prohibits poppy or cannabis cultivation

Overthrow The Government

Adding to the puzzle was an announcement by Tajikistan’s Interior Ministry on July 11 that Ziyoev had been arrested as part of a security operation in the Tavil-Dara area. The ministry claimed Ziyoev was planning to overthrow the government, was helping to open up a new route for shipping illegal narcotics from Afghanistan through Tajikistan, and had been illegally storing weapons in the Tavil-Dara area.

Hours later, however, Tajik authorities said Ziyoev had been killed while trying to help government forces negotiate with an armed group there.

“During the operation in the Surkhob valley village of Aghba, an illegal group of gunmen suddenly attacked and killed Mirzo Ziyoev,” an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

Tajik authorities say the armed group was made up of fighters from the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) who allegedly accompanied Abdullo back to Tajikistan. Tavil-Dara was both a base for Islamic fighters of the UTO during the civil war and later served as an IMU base when the militants staged incursions into Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan in the summers of 1999 and 2000.

Someday Return

Central Asia has been relatively quiet since 2001, when U.S. forces delivered crushing attacks on the IMU and Taliban in Afghanistan. But there have been concerns for several years that elements of the IMU who fled to Pakistan’s tribal areas could someday return to Central Asia. And with the Pakistani military stepping up its campaign in its northwestern tribal areas, and U.S. and Afghan forces stepping up their military efforts in Afghanistan, some believe that time may have come.

In late May, unknown assailants set off explosives at an Uzbek border checkpoint, then attacked police in the border town of Khanabad. The armed group then vanished. Later that same day, a suicide bomber killed a policeman in the city of Andijon.

On July 11, Uzbek authorities announced that 10 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks. All those taken into custody were from the area around the town of Khanabad and some, according to Uzbek authorities, had connections in Kazakhstan.

Across the border in Kyrgyzstan, security forces in late June conducted operations against Islamic militants that left at least 11 people dead. Since June 23, Kyrgyz security forces have killed at least nine people they say were IMU fighters. One member of the Kyrgyz security forces and a border guard have also been killed.