RAND Corporation Blueprint for Militarized “Stability Police Force”

Posted by William Grigg on December 10, 2009 05:08 PM

The RAND Corporation, one of the most fecund research arms of the Military-Industrial-Homeland Security Complex, has released a study entitled A Stability Police Force for the United States: Justification and Creating U.S. Capabilities.

The SPFOR (to use the inevitable acronym) would be a “hybrid” military/law enforcement unit created within the U.S. Marshals Service (USMS) for use “in a range of tasks such as crowd and riot control, special weapons and tactics (SWAT), and investigations of organized criminal groups” — both abroad, in UN-directed multilateral military operations, and at home, as dictated by the needs of the Regime.

Initially as small as 2–6,000 personnel, the SPFOR’s size “could be increased by augmenting it with additional federal, state, or local police from the United States” as necessary.

The RAND study, which was conducted for the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, recommended using the Marshals Service rather than the US Army’s Military Police  as host for the SPFOR in order to avoid conflicts with the Posse Comitatus Act, which forbids (albeit in principle more than in practice) the domestic use of the military as a law enforcement body.

“The USMS hybrid option … provides an important nondeployed mission for the force: augmenting state and local agencies, many of which currently suffer from severe personnel shortages,” states the report without explaining how the SPFOR could at once “augment” those under-manned agencies while at the same time being “augmented” by them if necessary.

That little lapse in logic is one of several indications that the report’s authors weren’t so much addressing a “problem” as making a case for a preordained “solution” — in this case, creating the vanguard of a militarized internal security force.

Building the SPFOR within the Marshals Service “would place it where its members can develop the needed skills under the hybrid staffing option,” summarizes the document. “Furthermore, the USMS has the broadest law enforcement mandate of any U.S. law enforcement agency…. [This model]provides significant domestic policing and homeland security benefits by providing thousands of additional police officers across the United States.” (Emphasis added.)

Back in 1961, the U.S. Government produced a document entitled “Freedom From War” that envisioned the creation of a globe-spanning United Nations “Peace Force” that would work in collaboration with a militarized “internal security” force in each country. Since that time, critics of the UN have anticipated the day when foreign “peacekeepers” would be assigned to police American streets and, if necessary, confiscate privately owned firearms.

While the monstrosity headquartered on the East River  is a proper target of our scorn and hostility, the new RAND study underscores the fact that if “peacekeepers” end up patrolling American streets, they probably won’t be foreigners in blue berets, but homegrown jackboots commanded by Washington.

(My thanks to Jack Slater for tipping me about the RAND report.)

President Obama Signs Executive Order on National Guard Use

Idiotic American Transfer of Patriot Missiles to Taiwan Endangers Special Economic Relationship

Chinese media warns of damage to US ties

China unveils anti-missile system

Wednesday, January 13, 2010
‘The US on the one hand wants all kinds of cooperation, but on the other hand keeps selling weapons to Taiwan’

BEIJING: China successfully tested emerging military technology aimed at destroying missiles in mid-air, the government said, while state media warned ties with Washington would be hurt by US missile sales to Taiwan.

China claims Taiwan is an illegitimate breakaway from mainland rule and sees the US arms sales an intrusion into a domestic dispute.

The brief report on the “ground-based mid-course missile interception technology” from China’s state-run Xinhua news agency gave few details, and did not specify whether any missile or object had been destroyed in the test, staged on Chinese soil.

“The test has achieved the expected objective,” said the report, without describing that objective. “The test is defensive in nature and is not targeted at any country,” it quoted the Chinese Foreign Ministry as saying.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu gave few clues about the test, but she told a news briefing it had not left fragments in space or created risks for orbiting vessels. This latest flexing of China’s maturing military hardware came after the United States cleared a sale of Patriot air defence missiles to Taiwan last week, drawing condemnation from Beijing.

China’s ire over the arms sales shows no sign of escalating into military confrontation or diplomatic upheaval. But Beijing’s growing assertiveness over the issue could magnify strains with Washington while both sides grapple with economic tensions and the US seeks Chinese backing on Iran and other disputes.

“China feels the United States on the one hand wants all kinds of cooperation, but on the other hand keeps selling weapons to Taiwan, and this discrepancy is expanding,” said ZhuFeng, a professor of international relations at Peking University.

“There won’t be any substantive reversal in relations over this,” he added. “But China’s self-confidence is growing and it feels these weapons sales to Taiwan are humiliating.” The Patriot “PAC-3” missiles can destroy missiles in mid-air, and could be used against the thousand or more offensive missiles that Taiwan says China has along its coast facing the island.

A commentary from the Xinhua agency on Monday warned of broader fallout from the Patriot missile deal. “Each time the United States has sold weapons to Taiwan, there has been huge damage to China-US relations,” said the commentary, issued separately from the report on the anti-missile test. “This US arms sale to Taiwan will be no exception.”

The commentary accused the Obama administration of betraying a commitment to respect each country’s “core interests.” “Immediately halt weapons sales to Taiwan to avoid damaging cooperation between China and the United States in important areas,” it said. It did not specify those areas. China curtailed military-to-military contacts with the United States after then President

George W Bush notified Congress in October 2008 of plans to sell Taiwan a long-delayed arms package worth up to $6.4 billion. Senior Chinese People’s Liberation Army officials have also urged Beijing to punish Washington and US firms for arms deals with the disputed island.

“We have the power and ability to adopt counter-measures (against US arms sales to Taiwan),” Jin Yinan, a PLA major-general and professor at China’s National Defence University, wrote in a newspaper, the Study Times, earlier this month. “We must use counter-measures to make the other side pay a corresponding price and suffer corresponding punishment.”

Beijing has claimed sovereignty over self-ruled Taiwan since 1949, when Communist forces won the Chinese civil war and fleeing Nationalists gained control of the island. Beijing has vowed to bring Taiwan under its rule, by force if necessary.

The United States switched diplomatic recognition from Taipei to Beijing in 1979, recognising Beijing’s “one China” policy. But Washington remains Taiwan’s biggest military backer and says it is obliged to help the island defend itself.

Banning Islam4UK is not enough.

As with Pakistani fundie/para-military outfits linked to the Pakistan army, in the UK’s case groups such as Islam4UK/Al Muhajiroun and a certain Mr.Anjem Chaudary are extremist groups which have linkages with the UK security Services, notably MI-5.

If the UK authorities are serious about tackling race relations issues in a climate of wars being fought abroad, and economic woes, then perhaps one needs to tackle the issue of how a person such as Anjem Chaudary became a media personality in the first place, and the apparent spokesperson for angry Asian Muslim youths…….as with Pakistan’s case and their fundie groups who also change their names frequently, Mr. Chaudary’s group were known as Hizb-i- Tahrir initially, then Al-Muhairoun, Al Ghurabaaand now Islam4UK.

So after being banned, presumably Islam4UK will change its name again to “al-MI5-ullah”.

The fundamental problem is not the name of the group, but:

• The activities of its leaders , namely Ajem Chaudary and his close followers.
• The freedom to operate in the UK, without the slightest bit of state sanctions against Mr. Choudarys name changing groups.
• The media attention they receive.
• The covert backing of MI-5.

The British State, within the limits of a Liberal Democracy, needs to find an avenue through which it can tackle the problem of Mr. Ajem Chaudary and his once flourishing legal career as a solicitor, and his race baiting staged events within the UK now, through the numerous meta morphed organizations he runs.

No, no ,no its not sour gripes, but how does a guy with such a background have a flourishing career as a lawyer, AND as a political activist running controversial organizations in the UK over so many years

Otherwise given ones own experience of the issue of security and what is tolerated in Liberal Democratic UK, one must conclude that the British State overtly sanctions and approves of Mr. Ajem Chauhary’s activities, and Mr. Ajem Chaudary is a paid agent of the British State.

Agent Provocateur in French: 5

Then maybe 2 million Muslims allowed to live in the UK, were only invited in by the state to be used as mere a race baiting tools against the majority, and nothing more.

Which in light of unfolding politics and history, with the addition of new perspective gained would not be such a suprise.

There are signs of US forces’ intention of nearing the Iranian borders gradually

There are signs of US forces’ intention of nearing

the Iranian borders gradually

Jan.13, 2010 (Hamsayeh.Net) – US military claims victory in the strategic province of Helmand in Afghanistan. US Marine commanders say their forces have driven out Taliban fighters from most of the towns and villages in the strategic Helmand province, paving the way for start of reconstruction projects in the area.

‘They’ve taken on the Taliban, the insurgency, right in the heartland and they’ve defeated them, ’said Marine Maj. Gen. Richard Mills in a report by USA Today.

Commanders warned that the region in and around the Helmand would continue to be a dangerous place because Taliban in the next-door Kandahar province is able to  mount attacks at any time. While US military officials claim their main goal is to begin reconstruction projects in the region, local Afghan experts say the US has other plans through taking over the Helmand province.

Vahid Mojdeh an Afghanistan political analyst told Iran’s Fars News Agency on Tuesday, that the United States has deployed its forces near the Iranian borders. He said, ‘There are signs of US forces’ intention of nearing the Iranian borders gradually.’

Mojdeh likened the Helmand province offensive to an earlier troops deployment in Nimrooz province in southwestern Afghanistan, despite the fact that the Nimrooz enjoyed relative calm in comparison with other Afghan provinces. The Afghan analysts believed the presence of US forces near the Iranian border would pose little security risk since Tehran is more than ready to defend itself against possible aggression from that direction.

The NATO and US forces already deployed over 100,000 troops in Afghanistan and they plan to boost the numbers by 30,000 more troops by the end of 2010. In addition, there are 100,000 troops in Afghanistan as private security contractors.

Social Engineering and the Mind Of Lucifer

You’ve got to hand it to these New World Order policy wonks sitting there in their corporate funded think-tanks, you really do.

They’re clever.

They get what they want by promoting the opposite of what they want.

The mainstream media and schools promote a ‘diversity’ agenda. ‘Common Purpose’ trainees are instructed on how to enforce the same. We must not discriminate against any person on the basis of their nationality, their race, their sex or their sexual orientation.

Sounds like a good idea.

Doesn’t sound like war against the family, the Christian religion and the dominant cultural group in the country, particularly the male of this dominant group, does it?

Let us look at what modern culture has done to principle. Let us look at the effects of the social engineering that continues to be quietly inflicted against us. Let us try to be aware of the cultural onslaught that has all but destroyed our society and (one hopeful thing at least) our belief in this society.

We (me included….no high horse here) have removed the spiritual connection between intercourse and procreation and abandoned responsible sexual behaviour by accepting the universal use of contraceptives.

We have stopped protecting the most fundamental human right, the right to life itself, by allowing abortion (more or less) on demand.

Once principles are abandoned the rest is easy enough. Sex is perceived as a leisure activity. It is for pleasure and self-satisfaction. Actually giving birth to your baby becomes a matter of preference, how you ‘feel’ about it….and if sex is all about pleasure well, vaginal or ‘up the arse’, what’s the difference? Gay marriage or traditional marriage, what’s the difference?

We have now reached the stage where full traditional, even ‘Christian’, marriage is there for ‘gays’ if they want it. Homosexuals can adopt children, even have their own with the help of a third party.

In my opinion it is NOT ‘anti-gay’ to object to this.

It is anti-child not to.

And, here’s the best of it. It is against the law to even object to this state of affairs.

For instance, if you are a Christian or a Muslim and run a ‘Bed & Breakfast’ hotel you cannot refuse to offer a double bed to gay men in your establishment even if you live there yourself. You can be sued for this.

Catholic adoption agencies have had to disband because of their refusal to allow gays onto their lists.
Christians cannot openly display the crosses they wear. In France, we read that Muslim women will be fined for wearing the burkha in public.

The next step will doubtless see the Catholic Church sued under ‘anti-discrimination’ laws for having an all-male clergy. How long before someone marries their domestic pet with the blessing of some Church or other?

‘Holocaustianity’ has made the white male apologetic and guilt ridden and, it must be said, submissive to Jewish interests. This situation has been created by relentless and intensive propaganda that never ever stops since it began in about 1968 and these phobias and inhibitions have been inculcated in spite of the fact that the crimes of the Holocaust happened before the vast majority of us were even born.

‘Anti-racism’ legislation and propaganda has brainwashed the core population into accepting continuous mass immigration. This has all but destroyed the British sense of identity and damaged the white working class in particular. Speaking against this does not mean that one would be in favour of any racial bias but there is betrayal here. Social cohesiveness in most of England, at least, is all but gone.

…..and here is the purpose of the whole ‘diversity’ agenda……

To destroy any real diversity. To create a society that is but a profane mass of disorientated people with no values nor family nor class nor race nor religion that they can hold on to or unite and organise with, that they might defend themselves against the financial powers that ever more effectively gather wealth and all power to themselves. These people sit behind their high walls or in their gated communities manipulating and conspiring for the day when they can take it all.

We might notice also that the US, the UK and most of the EU can no longer be called Christian countries. We are now Zionist countries. When Israel savaged Gaza last winter the British public were outraged and Gordon Brown went on to ‘The Andrew Marr Show’ one Sunday morning and called for a ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza. On that same day, his ambassador at the United Nations supported the US in its veto against the UN unanimously demanding exactly such a ceasefire (this was reliably reported by Craig Murray, an ex-UK ambassador who spoke to a ‘friend’ in the British UN delegation).

So we legislate for ‘anti-racism’ but support the most racist state on earth….oh, and our foreign policy is responsible for our participation in causing the deaths of MILLIONS of brown-skinned Muslims over the last few decades.

It is so important not to be a racist, isn’t it?

Let us put the whole thing more simply. The government of our one-party state, soon to be one-world state (if they get their way) give us evil but call it ‘good’. They have perfected the technique of dressing themselves in the universalist loving robes of Christ in order to deliver us into the hands of Lucifer.

“Do what you will” is the whole of the Law of Lucifer. This is to be our freedom. The more principle-free and degenerate, the better……”as long as you do what we say”.

13 Afghan demonstrators killed by NATO

http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m62100&hd=&size=1&l=eVillagers in southern Afghanistan have claimed that Afghan and Nato forces killed 13 demonstrators after a group of people took to the streets to protest the alleged desecration of the Quran.Residents in Garmsir district of Helmand province on Tuesday said that Nato-led forces raided a house in the area on Sunday and destroyed copies of the holy book in a local mosque.Haji Abdul Manan, one of the protesters, told the German Press Agency, DPA: “The people came out of their homes today to protest this action of foreign forces in a peaceful way, but the Afghan and international forces opened fire on us.”He said more than 20 others were wounded in the firing.Habibullah Jan, another protester said: “We have proof that they destroyed our holy Quran. We can show them to [President Hamid] Karzai’s government or the foreign forces.”A security official in the province said six people were killed in the shooting, but said they were investigating to find out whether they were civilians or Taliban-linked fighters.Isaf denialThe Nato-led International Security Assistance Force (Isaf), however, has rejected the allegations, saying Afghan forces backed by coalition troops had conducted an operation in the area on Sunday, but not a shot was fired and no one was detained.”The joint force protected the dignity of all innocent civilians during the operation,” the Isaf statement said.The statement said an Afghan official was shot during Tuesday’s protest, adding that “Isaf service members identified the insurgent sniper, shot and killed him. There were no other injuries or shots fired,” it said.Major General Michael Regner, an Isaf spokesman, said: “As partners with the Afghan people, we will thoroughly investigate allegations to determine the facts.”Hundreds of people protested against US forces last year after claims that troops desecrated the Quran in the central province of Wardak in October.Both the Afghan and US officials rejected the allegations and said it was part of Taliban propaganda to provoke public anger against the international forces in the country.There are more than 110,000 international troops currently in the country including around 68,000 US troops.As part of a military escalation to turn the tide against the Taliban fighters, the US government has planned to send 30,000 additional soldiers by summer.

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2010–Widespread Social Unrest Greets Arrival of Garrison State

[SEE:  Changing Images of Man]

Moody’s warns of ‘social unrest’ as sovereign debt spirals

Britain and other countries with fast-rising government debts must steel themselves for a year in which “social and political cohesiveness” is tested, Moody’s warned.

By Edmund Conway

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Riot police clash with protestors during an anti G20 demonstration near the Bank of England. Moody’s has warned future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger more social unrest.

In a sombre report on the outlook for next year, the credit rating agency raised the prospect that future tax rises and spending cuts could trigger social unrest in a range of countries from the developing to the developed world.

It said that in the coming years, evidence of social unrest and public tension may become just as important signs of whether a country will be able to adapt as traditional economic metrics. Signalling that a fiscal crisis remains a possibility for a leading economy, it said that 2010 would be a “tumultuous year for sovereign debt issuers”.

It added that the sheer quantity of debt to be raised by Britain and other leading nations would increase the risk of investor fright.

Strikingly, however, it added that even if countries reached agreement on the depth of the cuts necessary to their budgets, they could face difficulties in carrying out the cuts. The report, which comes amid growing worries about Britain’s credit rating, said: “In those countries whose debt has increased significantly, and especially those whose debt has become unaffordable, the need to rein in deficits will test social cohesiveness. The test will be starker as growth disappoints and interest rates rise.”

It said the main obstacle for fiscal consolidation plans would be signs not necessarily of economic strength but of “political and social tension”.

Greece, where the government has committed to drastic cuts in public expenditure, has suffered a series of riots over the past year which are thought to have been fuelled by economic pressures.

Army Prepares to Take It to Hakeemullah in Orakzai

Pakistan military prepares to launch offensive in Orakzai Agency

January 13th, 2010SindhToday

Islamabad, Jan. 13 (ANI): In an apparent preparation to launch a military offensive against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Pakistani military has closed all routes to the Orakzai Agency.

According to the Dawn, the military moved security forces into key positions in Orakzai, the former headquarters of Pakistani Taliban chief Hakeemullah Mehsud and a group headed by Tariq Afridi of Darra Adamkhel.

The closed routes to the region would be manned by Frontier Corps check posts.

Tribesmen in Orakzai have extended support in the counter-insurgency drive, the report said.

Troops have taken position in the villages, both in upper and lower areas of Orakzai to protect the tribesmen.

Sources said that the decision to launch an operation was reached after officials received information that most of the suicide bombers sent to strike Peshawar, Hangu, Darra Adamkhel, Lahore and Islamabad were trained in Orakzai.

Over 30 pro-government tribesmen as well as Taliban militants have died in clashes in the past two weeks in Orakzai. (ANI)

Even Giuliani Knows Its Obama’s War Now

Rudy Giuliani Says Obama ‘Turned a Corner’ on Terrorism

During a “Good Morning America” appearance on Friday, former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani had some rare positive words for the president.

“I’m very hopeful that President Obama turned a corner yesterday,” Giuliani said. “He first used the words ‘war on terror,’ thank goodness. He hasn’t done that since he was a candidate.”

The slight compliment came after Obama said Thursday that systemic security failures allowed accused Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to board a Detroit-bound flight, and also came amid an avalanche of criticism for the administration’s handling of the matter. Some of those criticisms center on the decision to try Abdulmutallab in a civilian court. Giuliani said the presence of a lawyer during Abdulmutallab’s questioning after his arrest and the “artificial” 30-hour time limit on interrogation placed ludicrous limits on the information Abdulmutallab could provide.

Israel Warns Hezbollah Against Reacting to Zionist Provocations

Israeli Minister of Defense warns Lebanon and Hezbollah

Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak warned lebanon and Hezbollah from the repercussions of any disturbance on the Lebanese Israeli borders.  Israel knows that Hezbollah carries on boosting its capacities helped by Syria and Iran, Barak said during a visit to borders with Lebanon and uttered that it is better for Hezbollah not to cause any deterioration in the situation. However, if Hezbollah made any step the Lebanese government and all the other parties who support Hezbollah will be held responsible and not only Hezbollah, a statement issued by the Minister of Defense office said.

NOT Hakeemullah

[SEE: Hakeemullah Nabbed? Indian Press Says So]

TTP commander held in Karachi

KARACHI: Police on Monday arrested a key Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan commander from Orangi Town in Karachi. Police raided a house in Baloch Goth, Orangi Town and arrested Hayatullah alias Humayun, number 181 in the list of the most wanted militants in the country, a private TV channel reported. Senior Superintendent of Police Raja Umar Khatab said the commander had confessed that four of his accomplices, Abdul Shakoor, Mehboob Ali, Abdul Waheed and Abdul Wahab were hiding in the city. staff report

Blast Rocks Hezbollah Member’s Home, Children Wounded

[As the West loses-0ut in Afghanistan and Pakistan, as well as in the pipeline wars, look for the western end of the "arc of crisis" to heat-up in Lebanon and Yemen, or wherever else conflict can be agitated.  By all signs, Lebanon is about to explode with the latest Israeli aggression.]

Beirut – An explosion rocked Wednesday the house of a Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon, wounding two of his children, Lebanese police said.

According to the police an explosive device was detonated in front the entrance of Hezbollah member Mohammad Zreik’s residence in Kfar Fila in Iqlim al-Tuffah region, east of the southern port city of Sidon.

The blast caused damage and wounded Zreik’s 11-year old daughter, Diala, and five-year old son Hassan.

The explosion took place as Zreik’s children were trying to open their home’s main gate to head to school.

Security forces cordoned off the area and launched an investigation into the incident.

Hezbollah press office failed to confirm if Zreik is a member of the movement and said ‘they are still following the incident.’

CIA: BUNGLERS OR CON MEN?

Posted on January 12, 2010 by gordonduff

WILL THE REAL CIA PLEASE STAND UP?

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Were the seven CIA employees killed in the recent terror attack at Camp Chapman in Afghanistan really CIA?  Sources now tell us that some were Blackwater operatives, not CIA at all.

Is the CIA and Blackwater one in the same?  Are either one or both working for the United States or has the disease of privatization created a culture of greed and incompetence that has left the United States vulnerable and defenseless?  Are we simply “out of our depth” in Afghanistan?

WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS?

Blackwater/Xe is a multinational corporation with endless divisions who, not only work for the CIA but governments and intelligence agencies around the world.  No one has ever successfully penetrated their cover organizations to find who they really are or who they really represent.  The Blackwater operations run from Camp Chapman could have been for anyone, Iran, Israel, India or one of their dozens of clients.

We don’t know, the CIA certainly doesn’t know, nobody knows.  Was the attack that killed Americans an attack on the CIA, an attack on Blackwater or a carryover from a local drug war?  All we do know is that everything we have been told is subterfuge and not necessarily meant to serve the intelligence and security interests of the United States of America.

The secret base in eastern Khost province in Afghanistan is in an area convenient to move personnel and “other things” in and out of Pakistan.  The base itself is supposed to be designated for the use of USAID, a division of the State Department meant to aid foreign governments but which has been a front for covert operations for decades, one of the worst kept secrets in the world.

The camp itself is guarded by Afghani tribesmen, not US personnel.  No information about their ethnic affiliations, training or qualifications is available.  However, the idea of a highly secure CIA compound being guarded under such circumstances is an absurdity beyond human comprehension.

American military and civilian operations inside Afghanistan have proven to be utterly incapable of finding any group within Afghanistan to work with that is free of penetration by Taliban elements.  Many lives have been lost already from numerous incidents of Afghani military, police and security personnel turning on American allies.

THE REAL FACE OF TERRORISM

The region of Camp Chapman is a staging area for terrorist operations, not only against Americans in Afghanistan but against Pakistan as well.  Some of the terrorist groups are working for India and Israel, some for the Taliban and, frankly, most are working for both.

America and the CIA are totally out of their depth, ill informed, uninformed and being played, not only by our supposed Kabul allies, but by India, Israel and our private contractors who are playing both sides against the middle.

BLACKWATER AND PAKISTAN

Camp Chapman, now identified as a Blackwater command post near the Pakistan border has an unclear mission.  Continual reports coming out of Pakistan indicate that Blackwater and/or other US contracting firms have become involved in criminal activities and terrorism.

Top Pakistani military analyst, Brigadier General Asif Haroon Raja has tied Blackwater and other US contractors to the assassination of Pakistani army officers, attacks on government installations and ties to terrorist groups who have killed hundreds of civilians.

Raja has indicated that, rather than being employed as CIA contractors in search of high profile terrorists, these contractors are working with, among others Israel and India coordinating terrorist operations meant to destabilize the government of Pakistan, America’s only military ally in the region.

If US contractors are working inside Pakistan, under cover of the CIA but actually serving the intelligence services of India or Israel, primary enemies of Pakistan, but also countries who are doing nothing to aid the US in Afghanistan, this would represent a serious threat to US security.

It has been reported that US personnel have been arrested carrying explosives and weapons near Pakistani nuclear facilities.  Are they working for Israel or are they working for Iran?  How would we know?

WHAT DRUGS?

Is there a danger in having unsupervised privateer mercenary operators working in the midst of the world’s largest narcotics production area?  What if such a company also owned private airlines that can fly from country to country without any supervision by customs or drug enforcement organizations?

With the press filled with reports of organized crime activities tied to mercenary contractors working for the US in Iraq and Afghanistan, reports of murder, drug running, money laundering and arms smuggling, is there some possibility that tying groups involved in these acts to CIA intelligence gathering capabilities a poor strategy for success?

Why are the papers filled with accusations of every imaginable crime from mowing down civilians with automatic weapons to blowing up mosques and yet no mention of the remote possibility of participation in the regions $50 billion plus per year drug industry?

In fact, is participation in drug production, smuggling and related money laundering the only real secret we seem to be keeping?

THE BUSINESS OF FAILURE

America mourns 7 dead citizens, victims of an attack, maybe terrorism, maybe “business,” now uncertain as to who were loyal Americans and who were private contractors working for the highest bidder.  CIA secrecy keeps us from knowing our heroic dead.  Criminal absurdity keeps us from knowing the truth.

Decades ago, the CIA got involved with the Mafia in an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro, someone who has outlived everyone sent to kill him.

We are told that we never hear of the successes, only the failures.  However, the failures are of such a devastating and catastrophic nature, the communist takeover of Cuba, the fall of Iran and the Iran/Contra scandal, the Chile coup, bungled buddies: Noriega and bin Laden, the Russian coup against Gorbachev, Vietnam, 9/11, the Ames spy case, the Iraq War, Afghanistan and so many others, that the “secret successes” are unlikely to measure up.

What could possibly be done to take a failed organization and make it worse?  We only need to sit and watch, you can be assured that everything possible, humanly and otherwise, will be done as it always has.

Is it possible that decades of claimed incompetence and bungling is simply a cover for serving masters other than the United States of America?   Can 70 years of consorting with dictators, swindlers, gangsters, war criminals, drug lords and politicians have blurred the CIA’s vision?

Chilcot Inquiry Questions Legality of Iraq War

Chilcot inquiry casts new doubts on Iraq war

It is revealed that Blair made secret pledge to Bush while Campbell names Gordon Brown as a ‘key figure’

Richard Norton-Taylor and Afua Hirsch

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The government’s justification for launching the Iraq war was dramatically undermined today when two separate inquiries cast new light on the build-up to the invasion.

Delivering the first independent assessment of the legality of the conflict, an official Dutch inquiry concluded that “the military action had no sound mandate in international law”.

It delivered its findings as details of Tony Blair‘s support for the conflict emerged in testimony by Alastair Campbell to the Chilcot inquiry in London.

During almost five hours of questioning about the secret diplomacy between Washington and Downing Street in the months before the invasion, Campbell revealed that the former prime minister had assured President Bush in a series of private letters during 2002 that Britain would support a US-led war against Iraq.

Michael White on Alastair Campbell at the Iraq war inquiry
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Campbell said the tenor of Blair’s letters was: “We share the analysis, we share the concern, we are going to be with you in making sure that Saddam Hussein is faced up to his obligations and that Iraq is disarmed … if that cannot be done diplomatically and it is to be done militarily, Britain will be there.”

The seven-member Dutch commission made it clear that the Dutch decision to support the war had been based on information about Iraq’s WMD programme provided by the British and American governments. That information has proved to be misleading and flawed.

Philippe Sands QC, a professor of international law, who gave evidence to the Dutch inquiry, said: “There has been no other independent assessment on the legality of the war in Iraq and the findings of this inquiry are unambiguous.”

During sharp exchanges at the Chilcot inquiry, Campbell made it clearGordon Brown was “one of the key ministers” Blair spoke to about Iraq.

He disclosed that Blair frequently wrote to Bush, in exchanges that emphasised Britain shared Washington’s concerns about Saddam Hussein and would join any US effort to disarm him.

Campbell revealed that while the letters were discussed within Downing Street with the foreign policy adviser, Sir David Manning, they were not disclosed to the foreign secretary, Jack Straw.

He also told the panel that the international development secretary, Clare Short – who subsequently resigned over the war – had been excluded from discussions on the aftermath of the conflict because of fears of leaks.

Blair was determined to disarm Saddam, Campbell said. Blair’s message to the US in April 2002 was he would try to do it through UN resolutions. ­However, “if the only way is regime change through military action then the British government will support the American government”, Campbell said, describing Blair’s view.

The inquiry has also heard from senior British diplomats that regime change was being discussed by Blair in the US in 2002 even though, according to leaked documents, Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, warned the then PM that military action aimed at regime change, as opposed to disarmament, would be unlawful.

In evidence that overran by two hours, Campbell rejected the accusation that the government had “sexed up” the 2002 dossier which claimed that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction (WMD) within 45 minutes.

He told the panel that he would defend “every single word” of the dossier, which he described as conservative. He said while the intelligence was presented to parliament by Blair in a “cautious” manner, the claim Iraq could deploy WMD in 45 minutes had been given “iconic” status by the press.

Campbell described his role in preparing the dossier as offering “presentational advice”, and said: “I don’t think we were ever saying, ‘Saddam’s got these weapons and he can whack them over to Cyprus in 45 minutes’.” He also said he felt it was “never in doubt” that WMDs would be found within a “relatively short timescale” of the invasion and when he was told by Sir John Scarlett, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee, on 28 April 2003 there might not be any it was a shock.

The Dutch commission’s findings are likely to influence analysis of the events in the UK, experts say, with senior judicial figures among those concerned that the Chilcot inquiry lacks expertise on issues of legality. “The findings of the Dutch inquiry that the war had no basis in international law are even more important for a domestic audience in Britain,” said Sands. “I do not see how the five members of the Chilcot inquiry, none of whom is legally qualified, could possibly summon the means to reach an alternative conclusion.”

The headline on this article was amended on Wednesday 13 January 2010. The worlds “illegal, inevitable” have been removed because they arose from the findings of a separate Dutch inquiry.

Funding Jihad – Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia IS “al Qaida”http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/saudi-arabia-is-al-qaida/

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Yemen al-Qaeda link to Guantanamo Bay prison

By Peter Taylor BBC News The failed Detroit airliner bomb attack on Christmas Day awakened the world to the threat from al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a group that until then was hardly a household name. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) was formed in January 2009 Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a young Nigerian who allegedly came within an ace of killing almost 300 passengers and crew with a bomb hidden in his underwear, said he had been trained and sent by its leaders. US President Barack Obama’s embarrassment and anger at the potentially catastrophic failure of intelligence which allowed Mr Abdulmutallab to board the plane has been compounded by the revelation that two of AQAP’s founders, Said al-Shihri and Mohammed al-Awfi, were both former Guantanamo detainees. Several AQAP foot soldiers are also former Guantanamo prisoners. This only confirms the fears of critics vehemently opposed to Mr Obama’s promise to close the prison camp by the end of this month. Deviant ideology In total, 111 Saudi detainees have been repatriated from Guantanamo. Mr Obama’s dilemma is dramatically illustrated by a BBC investigation into what happened to the 14 detainees of Batch 10, who were flown home to Saudi Arabia 18 months ago. FIND OUT MORE… Peter Taylor’s film for Newsnight will be broadcast on Wednesday 13 January 2010 at 10.30pm on BBC Two Or watch again on the BBC iPlayer Peter Taylor’s new three part series Generation Jihad is coming soon to BBC Two The Saudi government’s aim was to put them, like all the other returnees, through its controversial de-radicalisation or Care programme, with a view to rehabilitating its “beneficiaries” in society. The government claims a 90% success rate and says that only 10 of the 111 former Guantanamo detainees absconded, crossing the border into Yemen. But Batch 10 certainly does not fit this picture. When the Saudi 747 jet carrying them landed in Riyadh, its passengers were greeted by the authorities not as heroes but as “victims” who had been brainwashed and misled by a deviant ideology. All went through the Care programme, but five later escaped to Yemen. Increasing threat There two of them, al-Shihri and al-Awfi, helped set up AQAP and then took part in the organisation’s launch video. The video was released on 22 January 2009, the day after Mr Obama announced that Guantanamo was to be closed down by 22 January 2010 – a deadline which will not be met. In the video al-Awfi savagely attacked the Saudi rehabilitation programme, perhaps an indication of the increasing threat it poses to al-Qaeda. It is no coincidence that last October an al-Qaeda suicide bomber, with explosives concealed in his rectum, tried to assassinate the eponymous founder of the centre, Prince Mohammed Bin Nayef, the Saudi deputy interior minister. He survived. The bomber did not. The attack was a sign of the technical sophistication of al-Qaeda’s Yemeni franchise, mirrored by the explosives hidden in Abdulmutallab’s underpants on Christmas Day. Capitulation Mohammed al-Awfi’s is an extraordinary story. He went through the rehabilitation programme like the others from Batch 10, but then fled to Yemen where he starred in the al-Qaeda launch video. Astonishingly al-Awfi later re-crossed the border into Saudi Arabia and gave himself up. Peter Taylor pictured in Riyadh, where he met Mohammed al-Awfi I have never understood why he did so. The Saudis told me it was because he had received a phone call from his wife telling him to return to look after her and the children. The explanation caused me to raise a quizzical eyebrow. I was told it is not unknown for the Saudis to use families as bait. Al-Awfi is now living in luxury accommodation in Riyadh’s top security prison where he is being drained of every scrap of intelligence. He has all the comforts of home, a well furnished flat and regular visits by a grateful and relieved family. After long negotiations with the Ministry of the Interior, I was finally allowed to meet him for an interview. Surprisingly for a former jihadi who had breathed such fire in the al-Qaeda video, he was gentle and unthreatening, with pristine white robes, and a red and white checked Saudi keffiyeh. His story and the reasons for his change of heart are well rehearsed. Eighteen months earlier the interior ministry had video-taped the return of Batch 10. In it one of the first returnees to be seen boarding the plane is al-Awfi. He is dishevelled and appears to be in pain, the result, he told me, of being tortured by the Americans at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan six years earlier. Al-Awfi claimed his US interrogators had done terrible things to him. He alleges they sat him on a chair, made a hole in the seat, and then “pulled out the testicles from underneath which they then hit with a metal rod”. “They’d then tie up your penis and make you drink salty water in order to make you urinate without being able to do so, until they make you scream,” he added. Painful memories I spoke to other former detainees who allege they had been subjected to electric shock treatment at Bagram and Kandahar. When I asked al-Awfi why the rehabilitation programme had not worked for him, he said it was because the memories of what he had suffered at the hands of Americans were far more powerful than any corrective inducements he had received in the Care programme. I asked him about his participation in the video. Now securely in Saudi hands and surrounded by Saudi minders, he told me he had been forced into it. “The al-Qaeda leadership there put pressure on me to appear,” he said. “I came and found a photocopied paper with a full text of what they wanted me to say. I even disagreed, but they said I had to recite all these things for political reasons.” He says the recording took six hours and lasted until 0200 in the morning. I then asked al-Awfi why he had decided to return after making the video. “I saw the truth,” he said. “I saw that the path was a deviant path away from the sayings of the Prophet. Thanks to God Almighty’s generosity, I realised that and I made a final decision to return to Saudi Arabia.” I personally suspect there was much more to it than that though. But al-Awfi is alive, unlike another former detainee from Batch 10, Youssef Al-Shihri, who also joined al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. Last October he crossed the border from Yemen into Saudi Arabia disguised in a burqa, with six others from Yemen to carry out a bomb attack. The cell was intercepted by the Saudi security forces. Al-Shihri and another member of the cell were shot dead in the ensuing gun battle. Three loaded explosive belts were found in their car. Bigger threats Two others returnees from Batch 10 – Murtadha Ali Saeed Magram and Turki Meshawi Zayid al-Assiri – are still at large in Yemen and on the Saudi wanted list. And what of Said al-Shihri who was on the same flight as al-Awfi and who later appeared with him in the al-Qaeda video? Al-Shihri now represents the biggest threat of all as he is believed to be second in command – the deputy leader – of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. In the video he declared “our imprisonment has only increased our persistence”. What happened in the skies above Detroit on Christmas Day is an indication of that.

Yemen weighs rehabilitation issue – 22 Nov 09

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Questions for Holbrooke

Anjum Niaz

The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting

Richard Holbrooke appears to be running out of options on what to offer the rulers of Pakistan. But creative as he is, he arrives in Pakistan this week, with his latest lure. While he’s no Santa coming with a bagful of dollars, he comes waving a white flag. He wants to broker a peace deal between the feuding politicians and the establishment in Pakistan. The United States, he says, has good relations and respect for the Pakistani military. “We also have good relations with Nawaz Sharif and others in the opposition,” he informed a group of Pakistani journalists invited for a heart-to-heart at the State Department in Washington DC last week.

Does he sound too intrusive? Well, here’s another zinger: “If we are asked and people think it will help, as in the past, we will [broker peace between the politicians and the military]. We are watching (the situation) with sympathy and support the elected government.” When reminded that this amounted to interference in internal affairs of Pakistan, Holbrooke said: “We are not interfering (in Pakistan’s internal affairs)… but we are friends of Pakistani people and of the elected government.”

Hello… did we hear him right? Did he claim to be “Friends of Pakistani people”?

Holbrooke who has surfaced after a long hiatus (I wonder what he was up to all these months) has never before bothered to factor in the interests of common Pakistanis who really don’t exist for the American policy-makers. The US has traditionally dealt with a claque of leaders who don’t represent the interests of the masses; they represent their own selfish interests. Any leader willing to toe the US line on ‘war against terror’ is Washington’s favoured one until one day he or she loses his or her use and is eliminated from the political scene, as happened to Gen Musharraf.

America has been playing a very dangerous game and if history is any guide then it has been getting badly burnt in the process. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have ruined the country’s economy. Just look around the wasteland called the US today. Eighty-five thousand Americans have lost their jobs in December. Senior citizens who should be enjoying retirement have lost all their social security benefits and are being forced back into the labour force. The stores are empty. People don’t have money to shop. Putting food on the table is presenting a challenge to the poor. Health care is in a shambles. “I’ve never seen businesses suffer like this before,” says Fredrick Murad, my car mechanic.

President Obama, who only 12 months ago carried a halo around his face, promising to be the saviour, has fallen low in the public eye. He has failed to live up to his campaign promises – not a single one of them has he fulfilled. “He’s a one-time president, for sure,” say many Americans who are convinced that he’s bad news for the country. The Americans will not re-elect him in 2012, vouch the political pundits.

Recently I watched Admiral Mike Mullen, the top man in the military on ‘Daily Show with Jon Stewart’ on Comedy Central. The show became famous in Pakistan when Musharraf arranged to be a guest only to sell his book. But our ex-president hit it off with the comic. He even made him laugh. I was looking forward to a hearty gup-shup between the admiral and his host, similar to the Musharraf exchange. But Mullen was sullen, to say the least. He was humourless, unsmiling and tense like an overstretched rubber band. It seemed he would snap any moment. The host was clever enough not to needle the admiral. He let him have his say. Now this is not the Mullen we know, watch or read about when he comes to Pakistan. He and our top military man, General Kayani, spend hours talking over several cups of tea, according to Mullen. He likes and respects Kayani. The admiral comes across as a professional soldier with a twinkle in the eye. He is known to have a sense of humour.

During Mullen’s monologue on how America manages to win by defeating its enemies in the end, he brought up Pakistan each time he talked of Afghanistan. But Jon Stewart was not interested in engaging him on Pakistan. Watching the brittleness of Mullen would convince any viewer that America’s ‘war on terror’ is not going well.

A Pakistan-watcher in Washington DC says that the media back in Islamabad must ask Holbrooke tough questions on the estimated $7.5 billion projected as aid to Pakistan. Here are some questions Hobrooke must be asked, he says: who will determine where the money should go? How much of it will actually be allocated to health and education? How much will go towards development? Who are the US contractors coming to Pakistan to set up the various projects? Who will be the local NGOs that will get chosen to be given the funds and for what?

USAID in Islamabad too needs to answer questions from the Pakistani media. Amy Meyers, who literally controlled the agency in Islamabad for four years, and was known to have become ‘arrogant’, has suddenly been eased out. Why? Perhaps Holbrooke has the answer. He should be asked at least. He may not give us a straight answer.

Conversely, Obama’s special representative expects an honest answer from our leaders – both military and civilians — regarding the threats voiced by the Indian military chief. General Deepak Kapoor boasted that India could take on Pakistan and China simultaneously and “bring it to a satisfactory conclusion in 96 hours.” Holbrooke is unwilling to believe the statement unless President Zardari and General Kayani tell him to ‘read our lips’!

By the same token, our leaders too must engage in some blunt-speak. They must question Peter Chamberlain’s nerve-jangling assertion that the “The US has decided that to win the war in Afghanistan, it must attack its closest ally in the war, because allegedly, Pakistan is the state sponsor of the Afghan Taliban.” Chamberlin, a defence analyst determined to expose the ‘lies’ of the American government, makes even more appalling allegations blaming the “American motives and CIA dishonesty as the primary source of problems in this war.” His weblog, Therearenosunglasses’s, carries inflammable stuff.

In his latest article Image of the Beast, he writes: “Obama’s minor investigation into agency shortcomings demonstrated during the underwear bombing incident (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab who tried to blow up a jetliner over the US filled with Christmas travellers), the destruction of the CIA drone centre in Khost and the scathing NATO report on US intelligence shortcomings, on the heels of the Eric Holder investigation of CIA torture. All of these ongoing problems scream of an out-of-control spy agency. We have entrusted the CIA to lead this intelligence-driven war and time after time, but the egomaniacal spooks have consistently dropped the ball.”

Pakistanis have every right to question such flagitious conspiracy theories. And should Holbrooke worry about US aid to Pakistan being pilfered, he must be told that while the US wants to disburse aid through its own official agency, the USAID, the corruption and ineptitude of its contractors is well-documented. “So, for once Pakistan should not be faulted for corruption,” says the Pakistan-watcher in Washington, “The US contractors are the ones who are corrupt.”

And by the way, half the funds allocated as aid to Pakistan never leave the US, according to development experts!

Email: aniaz@fas.harvard.edu & http://www.anjumniaz.com

Republican Agitator Inciting Mob Mentality–Deport Iranians?

Congressman Seeking to Deport Iranians

If you are an Iranian in the US on a work visa or a student visa, Rep. Gresham Barrett (R-SC)thinks you are a national security threat and should be deported.

Rep. Barrett announced this week that he plans to reintroduce the Stop Terrorists Entry Program (STEP) Act, which he originally introduced in 2003.  If passed, the bill would deport all Iranians on student visas, temporary work visas, exchange visas, and tourist visas from the United States within 60 days.  It would also make it illegal for Iranians to travel to the United States, though some exceptions may be made for medical emergencies and political or religious asylum after “extensive federal screening.”

According to Rep. Barrett, he is reintroducing the STEP Act in response to the Fort Hood shooting, carried out by an American citizen, and the Christmas-day attempt to blow up an airplane over Detroit, attempted by a Nigerian national. The bill, however, targets citizens and residents of Iran, Cuba, Sudan, and Syria, along with Yemen.

At a time of increasing repression in Iran, this proposal will impose even greater burdens on Iranians seeking refuge abroad.  Iranian Americans must unite to tell Congressman Barrett that this legislation is offensive to American principles, harmful to US interests and discriminates against Iranians and Iranian Americans.

Tell Rep. Barrett that you object to the STEP Act, and call on him to reconsider this shameful legislation.  We encourage you to add your own personal story to the letter below and send it to Congressman Barrett today.

Feisty Little Lamb of God In the Wolves’ Den

Talking Zionism in the Financial Times and from the Mount of the Beatitudes

eileen fleming

Tony Judt is a University Professor at New York University who recently wrote that “Israel must unpick its ethnic myth” published first in the Financial Times. Judt  also provides the lead for this Christian Anarchist’s response regarding Zionism.

Judt wrote: What exactly is “Zionism”?

Its core claim was always that Jews represent a common and single people; that their millennia-long dispersion and suffering has done nothing to diminish their distinctive, collective attributes; and that the only way they can live freely as Jews – in the same way that, say, Swedes live freely as Swedes – is to dwell in a Jewish state.

I can certainly confirm, from personal experience, that anti-religious sentiment – often of an intensity that I found discomforting – was widespread in left-leaning Israeli circles of the 1960s. Religion, I was informed, was for the haredim and the “crazies” of Jerusalem’s Mea Sharim quarter. “We” are modern and rational and “western”, it was explained to me by my Zionist teachers. But what they did not say was that the Israel they wished me to join was therefore grounded, and could only be grounded, in an ethnically rigid view of Jews and Jewishness…

If the Jews of Europe and North America took their distance from Israel (as many have begun to do), the assertion that Israel was “their” state would take on an absurd air. Over time, even Washington might come to see the futility of attaching American foreign policy to the delusions of one small Middle Eastern state. This, I believe, is the best thing that could possibly happen to Israel itself. It would be obliged to acknowledge its limits. It would have to make other friends, preferably among its neighbours.

The civil war in Northern Ireland came to an end in part because an American president instructed the Irish emigrant community in the US to stop sending arms and cash to the Provisional IRA. If American Jews stopped associating their fate with Israel and used their charitable cheques for better purposes, something similar might happen in the Middle East. [1]

On March 20, 2006, I traveled three hours away from the Little Town of Bethlehem: Occupied Territory to the Mount of Beatitudes in Israel. The awe-inspiring site sits above the shimmering Sea of Galilee where Christ preached the Sermon on the Mount.

My Sabeel [Arabic for The Way] Reality Tour through the West Bank had concluded and I needed to be alone and silent, but I ended up delivering my own Sermon on the Mount.

At dinner a Catholic Pentecostal from Scotland introduced himself and asked me why I was there and what church I was from. I responded I have Irish Roman Catholic, Polish Jew, Russian Orthodox and Episcopal roots but that my rock is The Beatitudes.

He looked even more perplexed when I told him I came to the Mount of Beatitudes to decompress and reflect upon my nine days in Occupied Territory.

I asked him if he were aware of the work of Sabeel, the Palestinian founded organization that promotes a theology of liberation based on justice, peace, non-violence and reconciliation for all, regardless of faith path or nationality.

He sternly admonished me, “God gave this land to the Jews! The Bible never mentions Palestine, and that is that! God gave this land to the Jews and that is that!”

I responded just as fervently that the Palestinian Christians are the descendants of those who first followed Christ and they have been denied inalienable human rights by the Israeli government.

I told him the Christians in the Holy Land have shrunk from 20% of the total population to less than 1.3% since 1948 and if things don’t change soon, there will be no Christian witness in the land where Christ promised that it is the peacemakers who are the children of God.

He sputtered, “But the Jews have suffered! God gave this land to the Jews and that is that!”

That really got my Irish up and I retorted, “Yes they did suffer because good people did nothing for far too long, and now the once oppressed have become the oppressors. In the 21st century good people are unaware, ignoring or are in total denial of the injustices in the Holy Land. And what about all the Hebrew prophets, such as Micah who reminded the Jews of what the Lord requires: To be just, to be merciful and to walk humbly with your God!”

I could NOT shut up although I knew that that Scotsman was trying to get away and he looked most terrified by my passionate plea and as I was on a tear, I barely took a breath as I told him that instead of him staying in Israel for his entire visit, he should go and witness life in the occupied territories; go and see the effects of The Wall on his spirit and see what it has done to the Palestinian economy. I told him he should go and tour some of the six decades old refugee camps and see the ruins of all the uncompensated home demolitions.

I brought it on home by telling him that I also doubted that God was ever in the real estate business!

That Scotsman’s eyes had bugged out and his mouth had dropped open while the torrent of words spewed out of me and after I finally shut up, he stammered, “But there is suffering everywhere!”

I retorted, “Yes there is, and Christ always stood up for the poor and the oppressed. And he told us what ever we do or don’t do for the least and the outcast; we do it or don’t do it unto God.”

The Scot shook his head and turned and walked quickly away and never again looked my way again. Nobody else spoke to me the rest of the evening or the next day. That was fine with me, for I was listening to the voice within and what I kept hearing was Luke 23:34: “Father forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.”

But when you know and if you are of good will and a person of CONSCIENCE you must do something, and as the saying goes-we must preach to our own, so I address USA Christians regarding the fastest growing cult in the USA-and also perhaps in Scotland- the cult of Christian Zionism.

What is Christian Zionism?

Christian Zionism is an extremist Christian movement which supports the claims of those who believe that the State of Israel should take control of all of the land currently disputed between Palestinians and Israelis. It views the creation and expansion of the modern state of Israel as a fulfillment of biblical prophecy toward the second coming of Jesus.

Christian Zionism is a modern theological and political movement that embraces the most extreme ideological positions of Zionism, thereby becoming detrimental to a just peace within Palestine and Israel. The Christian Zionist program provides a worldview where the Gospel is identified with the ideology of empire, colonialism and militarism. In its extreme form, it laces an emphasis on apocalyptic events leading to the end of history rather than living Christ’s love and justice today.

What is the Christian Zionist connection with the Holy Land?

Believing that God fights on the side of Israel, Christian Zionists call for the unqualified support for the most extreme political positions related to the Holy Land. Christian Zionist spokes persons have attributed Hurricane Katrina to God’s wrath over our failure to stop Israel from pulling out of Gaza. They consistently oppose any moves towards a solution to the conflict, which would validate the political aspirations of both Palestinians and Israelis.

Who Supports Christian Zionism?

Christian Zionism has significant support within American Protestant fundamentalists, who number between 10 and 20 million. Its reach is broad, by virtue of its favorite themes related to the “End Times” and an Israel-fixated Christian media.  Christian Zionism is both a political movement and a way of interpreting current events. Its focus is on Israel and the Middle East, as much an ideology as a “movement.” Its promoters share many beliefs but are not organized through any one institution.

Throughout history Christians have at times twisted scripture to justify violence: for the Crusades, for Anti-Semitism, and for slavery. Too often the church has been slow to respond to these biblical distortions with disastrous results.

Today Christian Zionists – particularly those with dispensationalist leanings – are at it again. Although their motives are couched in terms of compassion toward the Jewish people based on a literal reading of scripture the political agenda of territorial expansion advocated by Christian Zionists has given rise to injustice against Palestinians and added fuel to the fire of conflict in the Middle East. For some time, individuals, and theologians have spoken out against Christian Zionism. In the past few years, whole church bodies are adding their official voices to the distortions and injustices perpetuated by Christian Zionism.

The GOOD NEWS is that some mainstream churches have spoken out against this inherently anti-Semitic theology. What follows are but a few words from some of those who have:

The Presbyterian Church in the USA at its July 2004, National General Assembly issued a statement on Confronting Christian Zionism: “Christian Zionism promotes a theology that justifies grievous violations of basic rights of people who are also made in the image of God, and is contrary to the gospel of Jesus Christ.”

The United Church of Christ in July 2003, at its National General Synod offered An Alternative Voice to Christian Zionism: “We believe that the tenets of Christian Zionism neither reflect the intention of the teachings of Jesus and the prophets, nor promote peace in the Middle East, and respectfully recommend …an alternative voice to this theology.”

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in June 2005 at its Chicago Metropolitan Synod issued a Resolution to Encourage the Study of Christian Zionism: “the movement of Christian Zionism based on these biblical interpretations seeks to influence U.S. policy toward Israel in a manner that would arguably facilitate mistreatment of Palestinians, continued occupation of the land, opposition to a two-state solution, and exclusive Israeli control of Jerusalem.”

The United Methodist Church, in June 2005 at its Illinois Conference on Unwrapping the Rapture warned, “Every household should give prayerful consideration as to how God will actually judge us for our silence about and complicity in the crushing of the Palestinian people.”

The Episcopal Church, in November 2004 at its Diocese of Chicago Confronted Christian Zionism: “A partial response to Christian Zionism would be to say that we read Scripture in light of [Jesus’] two great commandments – to love God and our neighbor.”

In the gospel [good news] told in Mark 3: 31-35, the mother of Jesus’ and his brothers arrived at the house where he was teaching.

Standing outside, they sent word to Jesus and called him out. The crowd around Jesus told him, “Your mother, sisters and brothers are outside asking for you.”

Jesus replied, “I am here with my mother, sisters and brothers. For whoever does the will of God is my brother, sister and mother.”-Mark 3: 31-35

“What does God require? He has told you o’man! Be just, be merciful, and walk humbly with your Lord.” -Micah 6:8

Being just means correct, true, accurate, right and fair.

Merciful is to have, feel and show compassion, that sense of viscerally feeling the pain of another and being moved to help.

Being humble is knowing yourself; the good and the bad, for both cut through every human heart.

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http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7f8fafee-e366-11de-8d36-00144feab49a.html

Eileen Fleming,
Founder of WeAreWideAwake.org
A Feature Correspondent for Arabisto.com
Author of “Keep Hope Alive” and “Memoirs of a Nice Irish American ‘Girl’s’ Life in Occupied Territory”
Producer “30 Minutes with Vanunu” and “13 Minutes with Vanunu”

Hindu Racism and Ethnic Conflict

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Small-Minded Zionist Media

Turkey demands apology from Israel over envoy ‘slight’

One newspaper captioned the picture "the height of humiliation" [Image: Lior Mizrahi/Israel Hayom]

Turkey has demanded that Israel apologise over what it called the "discourteous" way its ambassador was treated during a diplomatic meeting.

Israel summoned Turkey’s ambassador to rebuke him over a TV series but ensured he was photographed on a lower chair.

In response, Turkey has summoned the Israeli ambassador to Ankara to express its "annoyance".

The foreign ministry has also insisted it expects steps to be taken to compensate its envoy.

In a statement, the ministry said it awaited "an explanation and apology" for the "attitude" of Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon.

"We invite the Israeli foreign ministry to respect the rules of diplomatic courtesy," the statement said.

The television series that sparked the diplomatic row depicts Israeli intelligence agents as baby-snatchers.

‘Repeated provocation’

Footage of Mr Ayalon urging journalists to make clear that the ambassador was seated on a low sofa, while the Israeli officials were in much higher chairs, has been widely broadcast by the Israeli media.

He is also heard pointing out in Hebrew that "there is only one flag here" and "we are not smiling".

In an interview with Israel’s Army Radio, Mr Ayalon was unapologetic.

"In terms of the diplomatic tactics available, this was the minimum that was warranted given the repeated provocation by political and other players in Turkey," he said, according to Reuters.

One Israeli newspaper marked the height difference on the photo, and captioned it "the height of humiliation".

The meeting with the Turkish ambassador, Ahmet Oguz Celikkol, was called over the fictional television series Valley of the Wolves, popular in Turkey.

It depicts Israeli intelligence operatives running operations to kidnap babies and convert them to Judaism.

Last October Israel complained over another Turkish series, which depicted Israeli soldiers killing Palestinians. In one clip, an Israeli soldier shoots dead a smiling young girl at close range.

The row comes ahead of a planned visit by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak to Turkey on Sunday.

Turkey has long been an ally of Israel, but relations have deteriorated as Ankara has repeatedly criticised Israel for its offensive in Gaza a year ago.

Rights groups say about 1,400 Palestinians died during the operation, which Israel said was aimed at ending rocket fire by Hamas.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.

[Orwell had it right.  The conspiracy of the Beast wants to alter human nature.]

GOLDSTEIN CONSPIRACY IN 1984

Goldstein is the leader of the Brotherhood,
author of the book.

excerpts from “1984″ discussing the conspiracy:

“…The conspiracy – the organization – is it real? It is not simply an invention of the Thought Police?” asked Winston.

“No, it is real. The Brotherhood, we call it. You will never learn much more about The Brotherhood than that it exists.” said O’Brien. “Emmanuel Goldstein is our leader.”

“I will lend you a copy of Goldstein’s book…from which you will learn the true strategy by which we shall destroy the society we live in. Full members of the Brotherhood have read the book. There are not many in existence, as you can imagine. The book is undestructible. If the last copy were gone, we could reproduce it almost word for word. You will return it in fourteen days.”

Even O’Brien, Winston noticed, seemed to pronounce the words as though they were in italics. Winston had heard the whispered story of a terrible book, a compendium of all the heresies, of which Goldstein was the author and which circulated clandestinely here and there. It was a book without title. People referred to it, if at all, simply as the book. But one knew of such things only through vague rumours. Neither the Brotherhood nor the book was a subject that any ordinary Party member would mention if there was a way of avoiding it.

The book, a heavy black volume, was amateurishly bound, with no name or title on the cover. The print also looked slightly irregular. The pages were worn at the edges, and fell apart, easily, as though the book had passed through many hands. The inscription on the title page ran:

THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF
OLIGARCHICAL COLLECTIVISM
by Emmanuel Goldstein

O’Brien continued to move back and forth over the soft carpet …

“The Brotherhood cannot be wiped out because it is not an organization in the ordinary sense. Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible. Perceptible change doesn’t happen within one lifetime. One takes part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. It could take a thousand years. We extend the area little by little generation after generation.”

“We fight in the dark. We will always be in the dark. We receive orders and we obey them, without knowing why. Full members of the Brotherhood have read the book. But between the general aims that we are fighting for, and the immediate tasks of the moment, one never knows anything. I tell you that the Brotherhood exists, but I cannot tell you whether it numbers a hundred members, or ten million. From one’s personal knowledge he is never able to say that it numbers even as many as a dozen. One has three or four contacts, who recognize one another by code words or by special movements of the hand, and who will be renewed from time to time as they disappear. When one is caught, he confesses. That is unavoidable. But one has very little to confess, other than one’s own actions. One is not able to betray more than a handful of unimportant people. At most, when it is absolutely necessary that someone should be silenced, we are occasionally able to smuggle a razor blade into a prisoner’s cell.”

“We’re sometimes obliged to give a person a new identity. His face, his movements, the shape of his hands, the colour of his hair – even his voice would be different. Our surgeons can alter people beyond recognition. Sometimes it is necessary. Sometimes we even amputate a limb.”

“Members of the Brotherhood are prepared to:

- give ones life
- commit murder
- commit acts of sabotage which may cause the death of hundreds of innocent people
- betray ones country to foreign powers
- cheat, forge, and blackmail
- corrupt the minds of children
- distribute habit-forming drugs
- encourage prostitution
- disseminate venereal diseases
- do anything which is likely to cause demoralization and weaken the power…”

When he spoke of murder, suicide, venereal disease, amputated limbs, and altered faces, it was with a faint air of persiflage. ‘This is unavoidable,’ his voice seemed to say; ‘this is what we have got to do’, unflinchingly…

“The Party is not interested in the overt act: the thought is all we care about. We do not merely destroy our enemies, we change them.”…

“We are different from the persecutors of the past. We are not content with negative obedience, nor with the most abject submission. When finally you surrender to us, it must be of your own free will. We do not destroy the heretic because he resists us: so long as he resists us we never destroy him. We convert him, we capture his inner mind, we reshape him. We burn all evil and all illusion out of him; we bring him over to our side, not in appearance, but genuinely, heart and soul. We make him one of ourselves before we kill him. It is intolerable to us that an erroneous thought should exist anywhere in the world, however secret and powerless it may be. Even in the instant of death we cannot permit any deviation. In the old days the heretic walked to the stake still a heretic, proclaiming his heresy, exulting in it. Even the victim of the Russian purges could carry rebellion locked up in his skull as he walked down the passage waiting for the bullet.”

“But we make the brain perfect before we blow it out. The command of the old despotisms was ‘Thou shalt not’. The command of the totalitarians was ‘Thou shalt’. Our command is ‘Thou art’. No one whom we bring to this place ever stands out against us. Everyone is washed clean. Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston, however completely you surrender to us. No one who has once gone astray is ever spared. And even if we chose to let you live out the natural term of your life, still you would never escape from us. What happens to you here is for ever. Understand that in advance. We shall crush you down to the point from which there is no coming back. Things will happen to you from which you could not recover, if you lived a thousand years. Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”…

“What is our motive? Why should we want power?”

“The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power. Not wealth or luxury or long life or happiness: only power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from all the oligarchies of the past, in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just round the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means, it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power.”

“We are the priests of power.”

“Power is power over human beings. Over the body, but, above all, over the mind. Power over matter – external reality, as you would call it – is not important. Already our control over matter is absolute. We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull. There is nothing that we could not do. Invisibility, levitation – anything. I could float off this floor like a soap bubble if I wish to. I do not wish to, because the Party does not wish it. You must get rid of those nineteenth century ideas about the laws of Nature. We make the laws of Nature.”…

“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day is not power over things, but over men.”

“Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own. Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.”

“The kind of world we are creating is a world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.”

“Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their parents at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an animal formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of BIG BROTHER. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – for ever.”

From Mumbai to Kabul, Terror Brotherhood joins hands against Pakistan

-RAW’s SOD Chief operates from Kabul with Brahamdag Bugti’s strategic connivance
-Rajan Gang recruits criminals from Indian prisons, Bugti kidnaps families from Pakistan
-Indian Consulates in Afghanistan emerge as top terror training hubs
-RAW’s Rajan openly confesses variety of terror operations
-Bugti snapped with Indians at Kabul Delhi

RAW’s mafia Don & Special Operations Division Chief Chhota Rajan	The Terror Brotherhood’s main leader Brahamdag Bugti of Balochistan, now in Afghanistan
Recruitment process of criminals by RAW at a prison in India	Chhota Rajan in the custody of Thailand Police after shootout

By Makhdoom Babar (Editor-in-Chief)
(Additional reporting by Christina Palmer in New Delhi, Priyanka Joshi in Mumbai and Jamal Wasifi in Kabul)

Pakistan has emerged as the top anti-terror State in the post 9/11 scenario. Islamic Republic’s army and its top spy agency the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) have received immense commendations not only by the White House and the Pentagon but from all the elements in the global alliance against terrorism for their achievements to eliminate terrorism and extremism. However, back home, while the country’s top security agency, the ISI is engaged in combating terror and extremism, rival intelligence agency Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) of neighboruing India is constantly unleashing terror across the country through unconventional operations and for the purpose, RAW has established a Terror Brotherhood, expanding from India’s Mumbai to Afghanistan’s Kabul the brotherhood operates under the joint command of RAW’s Special Operations Division (SOD) Chief Chhota Rajan and RAW new ally, a former warlord and millitantr leader of Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province, who is absconding in Afghanistan is certified to be staying at Indian Consulate of Kandahar, reveal the latest findings of The Daily Mail

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that after the 9/11 incident, RAW decided to operate in Pakistan only through its SOD as the SOD comprises the underworld criminals and is otherwise not known to be ‘officially’ associated with RAW as the Indian government wanted to minimize the risks of RAW being exposed for involvement in terror activities in Pakistan through direct operations. The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that for the purpose, the SOD Chief of RAW, Chhota Rajan was sent to be stationed in Afghanistan and was assigned the task of carrying out ‘Special Operations’ across Pakistan. The Daily Mail’s findings reveal that Chhota Rajan, right from the beginning, started establishing close relations with separatist militant leaders of Baluchistan through the RAW funded militant organizations. Rajan later started equipping these organizations and warlords with state-of-the-art military equipment and arms and also brought huge financial packages for them.

The Daily Mail’s investigations indicate that RAW enhanced its activities to the maximum by the mid of the 2000 decade which forced the then President and Army Chief of Pakistan to carry out a comprehensive military operation in Baluchistan to flush out the militants and the RAW agents. During this Operation, many militant leaders were either arrested or they managed to escape from the country and landed in the ‘hospitality centers’ of RAW in different parts of the region. During this operation, former Governor and former Chief Minister of Baluchistan and head of the main militant tribe , Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was killed along with some senior army officers of Pakistan army. After the sudden demise of Nawab Bugti, the basic infrastructure of separatists and militants got dismantled while a few, including Brahamdag Bugti, managed to reach in the safe hands of RAW and started a ‘ new life’ in Afghanistan with the blessings of RAW. Bugti, who was much shattered with defeat on the hands of army and ISI, started a new theme to achieve the goals and with the strategic partnership of Chhota Rajan, finally formed a Terror Brotherhood, in 2007, 2008. The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that this Terror Brotherhhod was formed at Kabul with a number of nationalist and separatist militant organizations of Baluchistan, including BLA, BRM BSO etc and certain Hindu extremist organizations, belonging to Sangh Parivar joined hands under the leadership of Chhota Rajan and Brahamdag Bugti. It remains a mystery that despite the fact the Brahamdag Bugti was certified leader of RAW’s Terror Brotherhood and a num,ber criminal cases of heinous nature including the anti-state activities were registered against him, the Pakistani Prime Minsiter Yousaf Reza Gilani announced an unconditional pardon for him but he never returned to Pakistan.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that soon after the Terror Brotherhood was formed, two things gained a dramatic turn. In the first move, RAW started recruiting suitable criminals out of the prisoners from different prisons across India for enhancing the strength of SOD in Afghanistan and back in Baluchistan, Bugti’s cronies started kidnapping poor families from different parts of Baluchistan and shifting them ’safe camps’ in Afghanistan. The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that even the Indian media had pointed out that RAW had suddenly started a quick recruitment project at prisons from amongst the prisoner. New Delhi-based English newspaper Mid Day writes that RAW keep recruiting criminals out of the prisoners but the exercise has touched new horizons for the past couple of years with Chhota Rajan’s goons randomly holding recruitment sessions with the connivance of prison staff.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that the increase in suicide bombings and other terror acts in Pakistan touched new heights after the formation of the Terror Brotherhood as Brahamdag and Rajan both jointly evolved a new strategy to target Pakistan under the grab of ongoing wave of terrorism and extremism. Under this new strategy, it was decided that RAW would provide innovative terror plots for Pakistan, with the desires of Brahamdag and Brahamdag would provide human resource or preys to RAW to be used in India to frame Pakistan in different terror dramas.

These findings indicate that Express News, a credible News Channel of Pakistan, in 2009, aired the interview of a “failed suicide bomber”. During the interview, the failed bomber stated that his entire family was kidnapped by the goons of Brahamdag Bugti and taken hostage in some place in Afghanistan. He further stated that he was sent to carry out a suicide bombing in Baluchistan’s capital city under the threat that if he would not carry out the mission , his entire family would be eliminated back in Afghanistan. He said he failed to carry out the mission because a night prior to the mission, the roof of the room where he was staying caved in and he was later arrested along-with suicide jacket. He, on-air confirmed that there were around 3000 people from Baluchistan, being held hostage at the camps of Brahamdag Bugti in Afghanistan for the same purpose while he also confirmed that a lot of Indians would come often to meet Brahamdag Bugti with lot of stuff including weapons and edibles.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that Pakistani spy agencies, secretly photographed Brahamdag Bugti meeting the Indian Diplomats at Indian Embassy in Kabul and later him being received and sent off by Indian officials at New Delhi airport and these proofs were handed over to the government.

The Daily Mail’s findings indicate that the terror incidents including attack on Sri Lankan Cricket team at Lahore, attack at Police Training centre at Mannawan (Lahore), attack at Army Headquarters (GHQs), attack on Mosque at military area of Rawalpindi, attack at Moon Market Lahore and sabotage at Karachi’s’ Bolton Market came as part of “innovative” plans of the Terror Brotherhood and the Intelligence agencies have found enough evidences of the involvement of RAW or the Terror Brotherhood. These findings also indicate that Terror Brotherhoods members from Maharashtra-based Indian suicide squads of Aatma Ghataki Pathak are often used in suicide bombings in different parts of Pakistan as many such suicide bomber were later proved being non-Muslims due to circumcision reasons.

The Chhot Rajan Factor

The Daily Mail’s. findings indicate that India’s top Intelligence agency RAW has extended its network of terrorist activities in numerous countries of the region and world through its Organized Crimes Wing code named Special Operations Division (SOD), being headed by agency’s underworld mafia Don Chhota Rajan through whom RAW is carrying out terrorist activities in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, South Africa, Australia, Morocco, Indonesia etc.

Diplomatic sources disclosed to The Daily Mail that the US agencies were constantly monitoring the activities of Indian Intelligence agencies, particularly RAW for quite some time. During this monitoring, these agencies collected the evidences which strongly and clearly indicate that the Indian intelligence agencies had constantly been carrying out terrorist activities in a number of countries of the world while they continue to extend comprehensive support to sponsor the terrorist organizations and extremist groups both within India and across the world. The said reports further highlight that Indian government, a few years back gave RAW the permission to establish a special wing for such activities which was straight away formed with the title of Special Operations Division (SOD). The SOD, according to the said reports, is actually the mafia wing of RAW, which relies on nurturing criminal communities and harbouring underworld Dons and terrorists to run extortion rings, prostitution and gambling rackets, bootlegging operation, drug trafficking, kidnapping for ransom and political activism in many countries. The reports say that the increasing terrorist activities of SOD in the above mentioned countries as well as in Pakistan had now become an issue of a very serious consideration as it is constantly producing specialized terrorist in all parts of the world. The reports say that there were some strong evidences of Indian involvement in the massacre of Nepal’s Royal family when the Nepalese King indicated of minimizing the Indian involvement in Nepal, in 2001. The reports further say that India’s constant support to LTTE militants in Sri Lanka was also something of prime consideration. The reports also indicate presence of terrorist training camps in at least three states of India and recommends an immediate capping of the same as they had become a permanent source of terrorists’ production. These reports also say that SOD has now been commissioning in Afghanistan through Indian diplomatic Missions’ support and there it is operating with an utmost freedom.

Independent investigations by the DMIC disclose that in early 1970s, RAW fell with the late Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi over the issue of financing of the agency’s operations that went well beyond the ambits of the country’s civil law and constitution. Mrs. Gandhi, later, strongly believed that her defeat in the Indian elections of 1970 and coming in power of Murar Ji Desai was orchestrated by RAW. Therefore, when Mrs. Gandhi again took over as Indian Prime Minister in 1980s, she drastically reduced the RAW’s Special Operations’ funds. It was only then that RAW established its shadow division called SOD. As no budgetary provision existed for these sinister designs of RAW, it decided to finance the activities of SOD through underworld operations.

According to The Daily Mail’s investigations RAW’s mafia wing received the real boost after the recruitment of Chhota as the chief of operations. Rajan Nikhalje alis Chhota Rajan’s life began on the streets of Bombay, where he learnt to fight and rob. He entered the world of criminals, black-marketing cinema tickets. After his mentor Barha Rajan’s death, he was handpicked by RAW to become the Barha[big] Rajan’s successor and gang’s don (however, some reports suggest that Barha Rajan had also been working for RAW but under certain limitations). RAW’s patronage gave him virtual immunity from the law enforcing agencies. He aptly expanded the gang’s smuggling gold and narcotics, extortion, gambling, prostitution, contract killings and other racketeering operations. Due to his links with the Shiv Sena’s ideologue Bal Thackeray and his gang’s involvement in anti-Muslim riots in Bombay, Rajan soon came to be known as the Hindu Don in the Bombay’s underworld Rajan later managed to built up a steady business empire around the world acting as front offices for his illegal operations.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that the glamorous world of Bollywood immediately caught Rajan’s attention for easy money extortion from the heroes, heroines, producers, directors and distributors etc., who personify virtues on screen and in real life are an amalgamation of deceit, treachery, conspiracy and temerity. RAW has also always had its eyes on the Indian film industry for various reasons. With Rajan’s coming to the scene Indian film industry soon become RAW’s interest in the Bollywood is the fact that the film media serves as the best possible propaganda tool for the agency not only in India but also abroad including Pakistan. A blatant glorification of Hinduism and an utterly distorted fanatic portrayal of Islam is the common message conveyed through the RAW sponsored movies. Terrorism or “Atankbad” is associated with Muslims even if the main theme is not terrorism the scenes of terrorist are deliberately inserted in the script. These terrorists are mostly dressed in Kashmiri Muslims’ attire. RAW itself produces films under the banner of ZEE Movies and in many other cases extends financial patronage in the making of anti-Pakistan or anti-two-nation theory films like Border, Refugee, Mission Kashmir, Fiza, Zameen, Border Hindustan Kaa, Qayamat etc., According to Pahlaj Nehlani, President of Film Producers Association of India, the underworld lord (Chhota Rajan) demands overseas rights of all good movies without paying a penny. Top movies stars like Shah Rukh Khan, Salman, Anil Kapoor, Jackie Sharof, Govinda, Mithun Chakaraborty, Johnny Lever, Juhi Chawala, Mundakani, Manesha Koirala and many others have been doing free shows for Chhota Rajan at Dubai, UK, USA and other countries. The entire Bollywood dances to the tunes of Chhota Rajan during the annual funds raising show at Bal Thackeray’s NGO ‘Mukti’ without any charge. Those who dare to resist are left to face the music of Chhota Rajan’s mobsters. Gulshan Kumar of Super Cassettes Industries was assassinated by Chhota Rajan’s ‘enforcers’ because he refused to sell part of his music empire worth Indian rupees 400 crore to the ZEE music Company of RAW. The conspiracy was hatched when a galaxy of Indian movie starts participated in the opening ceremony of Chhota Rajan’s luxury hotel, in Dubai. Rajan’s key man in Dubai Vivekt Goswani conceived the entire plan.

Rakesh Roshan’s car was fired upon in year 2000, for refusing overseas rights of his movie ‘Kaho Na Pyar Hai’ to Chhota Rajan. Roshan made repentance by asking his son Hrithik to sign RAW’s sponsored movie ‘Mission Kashmir’ produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra for less than his usual fee while in many other cases, Indian Showbiz stars were forced to sign anti-Pakistan movies like Zameen, Qayyamat, Border Hindustan Kaa, LOC Kargil,etc., on fairly low rates under threats from Rajan as RAW wanted to minimize its budget for these films but at the same time desired to have leading filmstars in these movies. The Daily Mail’s findings further reveal that for each hit movie, the producers have to pay between rupees 3-5 crore to Chhota Rajan. Cable Operators are also operating with the blessings of Rajan. His brother Deepak runs the company by the name of Cable Cop, which offers film producers protection from Cable Operators who telecast new movies without authorization. According to a senior Bombay police officer Sunil Paraskar, all Deepak does is to give a call to the operators warning them not to telecast the movie for which he has taken protection money, officer Sunil also affirmed that never have the cable operators telecast a new film, produced by ‘ZEE Movies’ (as ZEE Movies enjoys comprehensive RAW protection).

The Daily Mail Investigations reveal that the first assignment abroad given to Rajan by RAW was to develop an underworld network in Nepal. Smuggling had always been a flourishing cottage industry in Nepal, run under the patronage of RAW. The Indian intelligence agency has traditionally relied on the criminal communities in Kathmandu in carrying out its operations in Nepal and using it as a launching pad for subversive activities in other countries of the region and even beyond. Chhota Rajan, a key link in RAW operations, was called to assist RAW in Nepal sometime in the late eighties. Rajan immediately became the linchpin in Nepal’s crime scene. By the early 1990s, Chhota Rajan had put in place a large network of operatives, dealing in materials ranging from gold to narcotics and people smuggling of women from the poor regions of Nepal for sale as prostitutes in Bombay’s brothels and harems of Sheikhs in Middle East.

The DMIC findings reveal that Rajan’s criminal syndicate was, however, challenged by many conscientious Nepalese. One such person was the Nepalese member parliament, Late Mirza Dilshad Beg, belonging to the Muslim minority community. Dilshad Beg’s campaign against rising crime in Nepal at the behest of RAW became a thorn in the latter’s side. Of particular concern to RAW was the private bill to combat organized crime that Mirza Dilshad Beg intended to move in the Nepalese parliament. Rajan was, therefore, instructed by RAW to get rid of Beg immediately, Rohit Verma alias D’Souza, a trusted lieutenant of Rajan, pulled the job of assassinating Beg while the Nepalese parliament was in session. Chhota Rajan took the responsibility of this cold-blooded murder. In his interview with ‘India Today’ and also to another Indian Journal ‘The Week’ the IGP Nepal, Mr. Kharel also confirmed that Chhota Rajan and his gang were behind Dilshad Beg’s murder. DMIC investigations confirm that besides India, Rajan has assets in Nepal, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Kenya, South Africa, Vietnam, Australia, USA and a few European countries. Rajan’s first base outside India and Nepal was Malaysia. Now his associates Babloo Srivastava, Kalia Goga and Guru Satam run the show in Malaysia, while the Singapore circuit has been handed over the Sanjay Khanna by Rajan. Until his assassination in September 2000, Rajan’s right hand Rohit Verma was head of the racket in Thailand. Similarly Ravi Pujari is based in Vietnam and Indonesia to look after the interests over there in yet another direction, The DMIC findings disclose that Pujari works in conjunction with Chhota Rajan in people smuggling of boat people to Australia. His henchman Daya Shetty controls narcotics trafficking from Tangers, Morocco to Spain, France and onwards. His close aide OP Singh runs the New Delhi syndicate whereas none other than Rajan’s own brother Deepak controls the all-important Bombay crime network. Rajan himself until recently was based in Australia where he oversaw the people smuggling operation of illegal immigrants or ‘boat people’ of all nationalities from Indonesia to Australia. The Daily Mail’s Investigations also reveal that Rajan had been exporting Vetch a toxic animal fodder of Australia, exported as Daal Masoor by many Australian exporters to different parts of the world) in association with the Melbourne based Indian exporter Dia Ram Sharma.

The Daily Mail has learnt that Chhota Rjan has been carrying out the RAW mafia operations with remarkable impunity. He always maintained a high profile, giving media interviews boasting his criminal exploit and his gang’s involvement in crime in rosy words. Besides the assassination of Mirza Dilshad Beg, Rajan’s gang carried numerous attacks on their perceived enemies. Chhota Rajan masterminded one such attack in 1995 when he sent four shooters to Dubai and eliminated rival gang members Sawant and Uttam Doifode. Then he sent his top hit men Mangesh Pawar and Vilas Mane to Bangkok and shot dead a rival gang member Anand Panday in his flat. Anand had captured a large chunk of Rajan’s narcotics business in Thailand, which highly offended the fonner. Manesh Pawar was later eliminated by Rajan at Johannesburg (South Africa) as the Thai police had identified and given his photographs to the Interpol. Rajan feared that if arrested Pawar might spill the beans and disclose his trans-national mafia set up in to the Interpol. Then, Rajan’s team attacked Vilas Mane at Amsterdam but he survived.

The Daily Mail’s investigations reveal that Chhota Rajan and Rohit Verma got their retribution when the concerned Vilas Mane joined hands with Satish Jay who had taken over Anand Panday’s gang after the latter’s assassination. Rohit Verma alias D’Souza had established a front office under the cover of a fashionable jeweler shop in Bangkok to provide cover to his illegal operations. Rajan had also established a firm called ‘Daman Import Export Company’ under a fake name of Vijay Daman. The firm gave Rajan a pretext to frequently visit Thailand to monitor his operations in the country. On 15 September 2000, Mane, Jay and their associates attacked Verma’s apartment killing him and severely injuring his wife Sangeeta and Chhota Rajan’s cover and led to the disclosure of his true identity. The Thai police immediately contacted the Indian police authorities through diplomatic channels. Thai police offered to extradite Chhota Rajan to India despite the non-existence of extradition treaty between the two countries as at least 17 cases are registered including 10 for murder against Chhota Rajan in Maharashtra alone and over 100 cases of extortion and murder against Rohit Verma in India. It was Verma’s extortion calls, which helped his assassins, trace him through CLI. However, the Thais were surprised by the lukewarm response of the Indian authorities to get their hands on one of the most proclaimed offenders and one of their other wise most wanted criminal of the country. At first the Indians announced the sending of a four-man police team to Bangkok to establish Chhota Rajan’s credentials. But the Indian Ministry of External Affairs stopped the team at the last moment. Owning to lack of persuasion of the case by the Indians, the Thais left Rajan off with a minor fine for entering the country under a false name and deported him. Contrary to the usual practice of deporting illegal foreigners to the country of their origin, the Thais deported Chhota Rajan to Vietnam at the special request of Indian government. The Thai Immigration Police Chief Lt General Hemraj Theerarhai confirmed in an interview what “Rajan was released because the Indians did not want that the cases against him be pursued”.

According to The Daily Mail’s findings, Rajan has been advised by RAW to keep a low profile for the moment as this assassination attempt on him in Bangkok has brought him to an unwanted international spotlight. There has been also a lot of hue and cry in India over the government’s indifference to bring Chhota Rajan to justice when an opportunity was provided. The CPM India criticized and strongly condemned the Union Ministries of Home and External Affairs for squandering the valuable opportunity of bringing him to India. Meanwhile Rajan’s top aides Satam, OP Singh, Dhia Shetty and Ravi Pujari had been extorting ‘bhaints’ (sacrificial money) from the businessmen in their circuits on the pretext that “Nana Ghayal Hai, Paisa Do” (maternal grandfather [Godfather] is injured give money). The Daily Mail has also learnt that many ASEAN countries and Australia have strongly protested to India for harbouring criminals and mobster like Chhota Rajan and launching them abroad to run mafia rings in their countries. It seems likely that to cover its mafia creations and owing to new developments as well as US attention in this direction, RAW might be contemplating to get rid of Chhota Rajan. It would be of interest as to whom the RAW would select as his successor. However, it is for sure that the said SAARC States are likely ask Delhi to bring an end to these terror patronizing.

Rajan is now in Afghanistan, heading the Terror Brotherhood to unleash terror in Pakistan for the past few years and plans to do the same in China via Xinjiang province. The Pakistan government has been given all the proofs about the RAW involvement in Pakistan through Rajan’s Terror brotherhood but it is yet to be seen when is the government going to take up the matter with new Delhi as well as Washington.

Fmr Detainee: U.S. Staged Terror Attack

January 11, 2010 – 4:05 PM | by: Mike Levine

Lakhdar Boumediene

The U.S. government staged the failed Christmas Day terror attack so that the United States wouldn’t have to transfer any more Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, according to a well-known former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

Lakhdar Boumediene – who made headlines in 2008 when his Supreme Court case affirmed detainees’ rights to challenge their detentions in federal courts – told reporters on Monday that President Obama has “changed his mind” about closing Guantanamo Bay, and the Christmas Day attack is a result of that shift.

“The government make that [attack] because the government wishes to keep the Yemen detainees in Guantanamo,” Boumediene, on the phone from France, told reporters in Washington. “The second Obama won the [election] he said, ‘I will close Guantanamo next year.’ … But now, one year [later], and he shows he can’t.”

About 90 men from Yemen are currently being held at Guantanamo Bay. A U.S. task force reviewing all Guantanamo Bay cases has cleared many of the Yemenis for transfer.

But two weeks after Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab – believed to have trained with Al Qaeda in Yemen – allegedly tried to blow up an airliner over Detroit, the Obama administration announced it would halt more transfers to Yemen.

“His administration made action in flight from Amsterdam to – I don’t know exactly,” said Boumediene, unable to recall the destination of the Christmas Day flight. “And they say look at this [man] to be a terrorist … and [now officials say they] can’t let the Yemenis go to Yemen.”

Boumediene said Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian now indicted for attempting to use a “weapon of mass destruction,” is “innocent.”

“It’s not his problem if Al Qaeda is in Yemen or in Somalia,” Boumediene said. “He is innocent. … Obama, let these people go to home. These are the answers.”

Asked for any information to support his claims, Boumediene didn’t offer any specifics.

Boumediene was brought to Guantanamo Bay in 2002, but he was never charged with a crime.

In November 2008 a federal judge ordered his release, and six months later he was transferred to France, where he currently lives with his family.

Conflict in Karachi

It is no secret that Karachi is home to gangs and mafias of varying natures that often fight for turf. Targeted killings in Karachi that made headlines recently after a sudden spiral have been going on for the past few months. The history of such assassinations in the provincial metropolis goes back a long way when the two factions of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement indulged in internecine conflict in the 1990s. Apparently starting as a gang war in Lyari, the current killings have taken on political overtones and are now transmogrifying into an ethnic conflict. Lyari is a hub of different mafias and happens to be the traditional stronghold of the PPP, triggering suspicions about its involvement.

A week ago, when Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced the decision to give sweeping powers to the Rangers to curb incidents of targeted killings in Karachi, their number stood at 256 for the past six months. There has been a swift rise in these murders in the subsequent weeks. In the last five days alone, 38 more incidents have been added to the list. After the slaying of some of its activists, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) accused PPP, its coalition partner in Sindh and at the Centre, of backing the killing spree, and threatened to sit on the opposition benches, although people of other ethnicities have also lost lives. Fortunately, the two parties have come to terms after the interior minister gave assurances to probe the matter. The ethnic fissures it has created, however, are yet to be cemented.

There are several ethnic communities living in Karachi — Mohajirs, Pashtuns, Baloch, Sindhi, Makrani, Punjabi as well as a large number of immigrants from neighbouring countries. These divisions have translated into political rivalries. The MQM-ANP and MQM-PPP divide is well known from the past. MQM, which was formed as a political platform for Urdu-speaking Mohajirs and has ruled Karachi since its entry into electoral politics in 1988, treats people of other ethnicities as its political rivals. It accused the Pashtuns of Talibanising Karachi and led a campaign against them under the guise of anti-Talibanisation. Sindhis represented by the PPP have long complained against the discrimination meted out to them by MQM. Now, a few Baloch killings in the present conflict have made the Balochistan Liberation Army’s hackles rise.

If the current trend of violent conflict is allowed to continue, it will be impossible to control, when we know that the jihadi extremists are waiting in the wings to make the best out of the chaos it will create. Additionally, there has been a rise in sectarian sensitivities following the attack on the Ashura procession. Interior Minister Rehman Malik has said that the army is not needed in Karachi because the government has empowered the Rangers to deal with the situation. However, there is a crisis of confidence about this paramilitary forces’ ability to deal with the problem. What is needed is an urgent crushing of elements that are leading the killings. The government should immediately work out a strategy to restore peace in the city and call in the army if needed. At the same time, it should do long-term planning to keep the situation under control.

The PPP and MQM’s decision to resolve their differences for political reasons is welcome. But they need to go beyond this. The PPP should use its influence with ANP to resolve differences between the Pashtuns and Mohajirs living in Karachi. On the other hand, mistrust between the Baloch and Urdu-speaking communities needs to be dispelled to restore normalcy in the city. Under no circumstances should the Lyari problem be allowed to evolve into an ethnic issue. If Karachi — which is the largest commercial and industrial centre as well as the only operative port — does not settle down, there is no guarantee what will happen to the country, which is already teetering on the brink. *