“Mufti of martyrdom operations”

Prominent ‘Moderate’ Islamic Leader Linked to Terror

By Steve Emerson

18 Sep 2009

In an amazing bit of irony, a Qatari government fund is creating the Al-Qaradawi Center for Islamic Moderation and Renewal, named after leading Sunni scholar and self-proclaimed “Mufti of martyrdom operations” Yousef Al-Qaradawi. Its director claims that the center will direct its “moderation” towards “politicians and economists,” train imams, and show the “huge difference between terrorism and jihad.”

Yet all of these stated goals directly contradict Al-Qaradawi’s statements in support of terrorism, his desire to overthrow capitalism, and his position as a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Director Hasan Khalifa is a professor of comparative religion at Cairo University and a great admirer of Al-Qaradawi. He stated that the organization “would direct its works at politicians and economists to help them promote moderation in their respective areas.”

In the realm of politics, there are numerous examples of Al-Qaradawi’s “moderation.” He has openly permitted the killing of American troops in Iraq and praised the “heroic deeds” from “Hamas, Jihad, Al-Aqsa Brigades, and others.” Reports by prominent London newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat repeated Israeli claims that Al-Qaradawi was funding “the heart of Hamas,” the Al-Islam Charity, through his Welfare Coalition. He has also pledged to fight the United States if it attacked Iran, stating:

“When America threatened [Iran], I said I am against America. Iran has the right to possess peaceful nuclear power, and if America fights it, we would stand up against [America].”

To top it off, Al-Qaradawi has proclaimed himself the “Mufti of martyrdom operations” and stated:

“I have been affiliated with a group considered by Zionists as their first enemy; it is the Muslim Brotherhood that has provided and still provides martyrs for the cause of Palestine.”

Al-Qaradawi is known for advocating the overthrow of Western capitalism. While sitting together with Hamas leader Khalid Mishal in a public meeting of the Al-Quds International Institution, an organization in which the two of them are both board members, Al-Qaradawi stressed:

“We have our own economic philosophy and system which others do not have. The collapse of the capitalist system, which is based on usury and securities rather than commodities in markets, shows us that it is undergoing a crisis and that our integrated Islamic philosophy, if properly understood and applied, can replace Western capitalism.”

The center claims that it will “also publish and translate books about moderation so as to reach out to Western readers.” Perhaps they will also disseminate Al-Qaradawi’s Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase, which advocates violent jihad and supports nearly all of the mujahideen movements affiliated with Al-Qaida. In this book, Al-Qaradawi has stated:

“The Islamic Movement should consider itself at the ‘beck and call’ of every Islamic Cause and respond to every cry for help wherever that cry may come from. It should stand with Eritrea in its jihad against the unjust Marxist Christian regime . . . It should stand by Sudan against the treacherous Christian racist rebellion . . . It should support the Muslims of Philippines against the biased Christian regime . . It should also help the Muslims of Kashmir in their struggle . . . [against] Indian imperialism which . . . is trying to turn it into a base of conspiracy against Pakistan and the whole Muslim world as a whole . . . Hamas is an embodiment of the Palestinian people’s belief in its Muslim and Arab origins, and a testimony that the people are still alive and will never die and that jihad will be carried on by pure hands and clean hearts until victory is achieved with the Will of Allah.”

Another goal of the center is to train preachers and imams “because they have more close contact with the masses and can spread moderation to them.” Al-Qaradawi’s “moderation” includes his views on how to achieve victory over the Jews, in which he stated:

“When I was asked why we did not achieve victory over the Jews and why the Jews’ state was established, I said because they entered the battle as Jews and we did not enter it as Muslims . . . In fact, we have stripped the battle of any religious meaning. Therefore, we will never achieve victory except by religion and faith. This is a religious nation. It has religious roots. If you advocate to it socialism, nationalism, democracy, or any such thing, it will not affect it. However, if you say there is no God but Allah and Allahu Akbar, raise the Koran in front of this nation, and say O winds of paradise blow and O Allah’s Brigades set out, you will find the entire nation behind you… they [the Arabs] will never get anything except by resistance. Resistance is our support in front of our enemy. Our enemy will not give us anything free or do us a favor. Independence and freedom are not given or granted to people. They tree of freedom is watered by blood.”

Al-Qaradawi “has always been calling for acceptance of others, ‘whether they are Muslims or not,’” said Center director Hasan Khalifa. Al-Qaradawi expressed such views in the following quote, from Priorities of the Islamic Movement in the Coming Phase:

“It is not right, in my view, that Christianity should monopolize all these [Western] countries unrivalled, or rivaled by Zionist Judaism that only joins forces with it against us. This is what I told our brothers in America, Canada, Australia, and other countries many years ago.”

Perhaps, the statement to which he was referring was his 1995 speech at the MAYA conference in Toledo, Ohio, where he stated:

“Conquest through da’wa [proselytizing], that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through da’wa.”

With all of his radical statements and hate speech, it is unbelievable that the Qatari Emir and Queen would sponsor a foundation in the name of Al-Qaradawi. This is especially worrisome, as the center is a part of its Western-oriented Education City, an effort to reach out to non-Muslim students. If these are the voices of a moderate Islam, which “are trying to fight extremism,” what is left for the extremists?

To see the IPT’s profile of Al-Qaradawi go here now.

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Iran blasts Turkey, Saudi, Qatar over ally Syria

General Yahya Rahim Safavi (AFP/File, Behrouz Mehri)

(AFP)

TEHRAN — A top military aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday accused Ankara, Riyadh and Doha of serving US and Israeli interests in Syria, in a veiled warning to Turkey of worsening ties.

"The Americans, Israelis, and some European and Persian Gulf nations, in particular Qatar and Saudi Arabia, have delegated to Turkey the task of achieving their goal to weaken or topple Bashar al-Assad’s government or make it surrender," Fars news agency reported General Yahya Rahim Safavi as saying.

"Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Turkey are acting in the interests of the US and the Zionists to weaken the resistance axis comprising Iran, Syria and Hezbollah," said the former Revolutionary Guards commander.

He was referring to the Shiite armed militia in Syria’s neighbour Lebanon, dubbed by Tehran’s nemesis Washington as a terrorist organisation.

Syria, whose government is Tehran’s key Middle East ally, has been engulfed in a 15-month crisis in which the United Nations says more than 10,000 people have been killed. Syrian activists put the death toll at more than 13,000.

Calling Turkey "a strategic competitor of Iran," Rahim Safavi said that Iran-Turkey relations are still "good."

But in in a veiled warning, he added: "We hope that America and the Zionists will not be able to disrupt relations" between Tehran and Ankara.

For the past two years, Turkey has acted as an intermediary between Iran and world powers on the Islamic republic’s controversial nuclear programme of uranium enrichment.

Tehran denies Western allegations that its atomic ambitions include a covert weapons project.

But Turkey’s position on Syria, with Ankara calling on Assad to step down to end the bloody strife there, has soured bilateral relations for several months.

Syria’s opposition has accused Iran of supplying weapons and military aid to Damascus, while Tehran makes the same allegations against the West and the Gulf monarchies, accusing them of arming the rebels with Ankara’s help.

Tehran has repeatedly voiced its backing for international envoy Kofi Annan’s six-point peace plan for Syria, calling it the only way to end the crisis, while Gulf nations have condemned Damascus’s deadly crackdown.

Qatari Royal Family Linked to Al Qaeda—(Feb. 7, 2003)

Qatari Royal Family Linked to Al Qaeda

By Brian Ross (@brianross) and David Scott

Feb. 7, 2003

American officials say the FBI and CIA just missed capturing the al Qaeda leader believed to have organized the 9/11 attacks — and now believed to be planning a new attack against Americans — because it appears he was protected and tipped off by a member of the royal family in Qatar, Abdullah Bin Khalid al-Thani.

American authorities say Khalid Shaikh Mohammed masterminded behind the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks for Osama bin Laden, and is now considered bin Laden’s second in command.

Mohammed, a Kuwait-born Pakistani national on the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists list, has been linked to the April 11, 2002 suicide truck bombing of the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia where at least 19 tourists, mostly Germans, were killed.

He has been charged in connection with plots in the Philippines to bomb trans-Pacific airliners and crash a plane into CIA headquarters. Those were broken up in 1995. He is believed to be related to Ramzi Yousef, who was convicted for his role in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.

"I would say that he’s extremely dangerous," said Jack Cloonan, a New York-based senior terrorism investigator for the FBI, who retired earlier this year and is now an ABCNEWS consultant. "He’s the person who is going to attack the United States."

In 1996, the FBI tracked Mohammed, under indictment on charges of terrorism, to Qatar’s capital city, Doha, and was within hours of capturing him.

Cloonan, who was the lead FBI agent on the case, said a specially equipped government executive jet, complete with blacked-out windows, was standing by to transport Mohammed.

"We had located Khalid Sheikh," Cloonan told ABCNEWS. "We were prepared to fly the plane in and to take him out."

But Cloonan says Mohammed was tipped off shortly after Qatar officials were told of the plan and headed for the airport.

"Somebody had leaked the information to Khalid Sheikh and he left," said Cloonan. "It certainly, in my judgment, [was] a significant opportunity that was missed."

Qatari Royal Family Leak

The American military is already a major presence in Qatar and says the royal family has cooperated fully. If there is a war with Iraq, Qatar is where U.S. Central Command will be located.

But at least one member of the royal family is known to have regularly provided safe haven for numerous al Qaeda operatives, including bin Laden.

"Certainly it is well-documented that there is one member of the Qatar royal family that supports al Qaeda," said Rohan Gunaratna, the author of the book Inside Al Qaeda and professor at St. Andrews University in Scotland.

According to American intelligence officials, Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani, a member of the Qatari royal family tipped off Mohammed. He is listed on government Web sites as the current minister of the Interior for Qatar and is known as a radical Islamic fundamentalist with ties to al Qaeda.

Mohammed is believed to have fled Qatar with a passport provided by that country’s government. He is also believed to have been given a home in Qatar as well as a job at the Department of Public Water Works. Officials also said bin Laden himself visited Abdallah bin Khalid al-Thani in Qatar between the years of 1996 and 2000.

One former CIA official who preferred to remain anonymous said the connection went beyond al-Thani and there were others in the Qatari royal family who were sympathetic and provided safe havens for al Qaeda.

"We had an opportunity to pick up a very, very bad man and a very dangerous man," said Cloonan. "He still to this day has an impact on U.S. national security."

It’s an extremely sensitive situation for the U.S. military, given the role Qatar would play in a war against Iraq.

The government of Qatar or its interior minister didn’t return repeated calls for comment.

Syria Says Saudis Sabotaging UN Plan by Arming Rebels

   

Bloomberg News

By Henry Meyer and Stepan Kravchenko

Syria’s ambassador to Russia said Saudi Arabia and Qatar are sabotaging a United Nations plan to end a 15-month conflict by continuing to arm rebels in violation of a cease-fire agreement reached in April.

“Weapons are entering Syria through its borders with Lebanon and Turkey,” Riad Haddad said in an interview at the Syrian embassy in Moscow today. “And these are heavy weapons.”

Lebanese authorities at the end of April seized a ship originating in Libya that was carrying anti-tank and anti- aircraft missiles destined for Syrian opposition groups, Haddad said. While President Bashar al-Assad’s forces announced an end to hostilities April 12, in line with the UN accord, violence has persisted because rebels are pursuing attacks, Haddad said.

More than 10,000 people have died since the uprising against Assad started in March last year, according to UN estimates. That includes a massacre last week in Houla that claimed 108 lives, 49 of them children, which the UN blames on a pro-government militia. Syria says opposition forces carried out the killings to provoke civil war and international intervention. The U.S. and its allies expelled Syrian diplomats to condemn the attack on Houla, near Homs.

“The key to a solution lies in the hands of those countries which are supporting and financing terrorist groups,” Haddad said. “They should state if they are against terrorism and these groups and will stop financing them and support the Annan plan.”

Houla Massacre

UN Special Envoy Kofi Annan, in the wake of the Houla atrocity, called on Assad’s government and opposition forces to halt the violence and abide by the cease-fire agreement.

“I also ask all states with influence to impress upon the government and all parties the need for a cessation of violence in all its forms, including the continuing human rights abuses,” Annan told journalists in Damascus after meeting with Assad on May 29, according to the UN’s website.

Both Saudi Arabia and Qatar have publicly voiced support for arming the rebels. An official at Qatar’s embassy in Moscow declined to comment on Syria’s claim that his government is funneling weapons and money to the rebels, and nobody authorized to speak on the record could be reached for comment at the Saudi Embassy. Both countries are ruled by Sunni monarchies that are at odds with mainly Shiite Iran, an ally of Syria.

U.S. Supplies

The U.S. is supplying medical and communications equipment to rebels, State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said on May 16. The Washington Post had reported that the U.S. is helping to co-ordinate the provision of military material funded by Saudi Arabia, Qatar and other Gulf states.

“The U.S. knows exactly what is going on, it supports it,” said Haddad. He added that Turkey was also involved by providing training for the armed Syrian opposition groups.

The mass killing in Houla hasn’t broken an impasse in the UN Security Council, where Russia continues to block attempts to impose more economic pressure or military action against Syria. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday said Russia’s stance on Syria is “propping up” Assad’s regime.

Russia says it favors a negotiated outcome in Syria similar to the talks mediated by the Gulf Cooperation Council in Yemen that paved the way for the departure of former President Ali Abdullah Saleh and replacement by his deputy this year.

Yemeni Scenario

Assad isn’t ready to step down and Syria won’t accept a solution similar to what happened in Yemen, said Haddad.

“President Assad enjoys a wide popularity in Syria and our army supports him too and the leadership is conducting reforms,” the Syrian envoy said. “So I completely rule out the Syrian leadership accepting the Yemeni scenario.”

The massacre in Houla was carried out by several hundred rebel gunmen, General Qassem Jamal Suleiman, who heads the Syrian investigation into the killings, said yesterday.

The rebel assault started with the firing of two anti-tank missiles that killed 31 members of the security forces stationed outside of Houla, according to Haddad. “The main aim was to cause the failure of the Annan plan and to provoke foreign military intervention,” he said.

To contact the reporter on this story: Stepan Kravchenko in Moscow at skravchenko@bloomberg.net Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Balazs Penz at bpenz@bloomberg.net

Turkmen Children Undereducated Thanks To Berdy’s Cult of Personality

The ideology of the Turkmen authorities to prevent the children receive a quality education

Altin Magauina

Lack of professional educators and endless activities that require the participation of pupils, students and teachers themselves have a negative impact on the quality of education in Turkmenistan.

This opinion, many local residents. It is the poor quality of education in the country and the very limited places in higher education institutions make the Turkmen young people from leaving the country. A country’s economy suffers from a shortage of professional staff.

22-year Meylis , a student from a European university, the desire of his peers to receive professional education abroad explains the poor quality of education in Turkmenistan.According to him, those who could not go through government programs, are willing to pay themselves, and study abroad.

Turkmen writer Amanmurat Bugaev believes that over the past few years the country has been done in order to restore the country’s educational system, which was brought to the sorry state at the time of Niyazov. But, according to the writer, here is the inhibiting factor is the lack of professional teachers and endless activities that require the participation of pupils, students and teachers themselves.

– Unfortunately, the level of some of the teachers’ limited knowledge of the Turkmen cult book Saparmurat Niyazov  – "Rukhnama." It was previously canceled all training of teachers. But now in this plan is carried out certain work. Teachers pass the certification, check the level of their training.

Participation in events

In the years of independence, the Turkmen schools and other educational institutions of pupils and students torn from the educational process and sent to all sorts of extras. Large crowds of young people should have to show and prove to people’s love for their leader.According to local residents, including students, in recent years this practice has become more widely used than at the time of the first president of Turkmenistan.

19 year old student from Ashgabat Geldymurat in conversation with Radio Azatlyk told how their every day for 2-3 hours under the scorching sun made ​​ready for the day of the Constitution, which was celebrated on May 18.

– Because of this attitude to the students simply gives up – says Geldymurat. – Lagged behind once, it will be difficult to catch up. The feeling that you lose wasting your valuable time and creates a feeling of guilt and disappointment that I want to drop everything and run to where you can feel a free man.

According to the official student rehearsal festivities usually begin 3-4 weeks before the holiday. And that happens before every holiday or event.

"Certified" professionals

This situation worries the rest of the inhabitants of the country, which in turn is passed to access all kinds of professionals, knowledge of which raises some doubts.

40-year-old resident of Balkanabat Rugsat Khatamov in conversation with Radio Azatlyk talking about his neighbor, student, asks:

– They are dressed in beautiful costumes, take part in the opening of various new buildings and other events. A study on the students’ time is not enough. I was so impressed. Who are these children after graduation? Doctors, mathematicians, teachers, without knowledge? Who can answer me this question?

32-year-old Bibigul , received a diploma of higher education in Turkmenistan, said that the student remembered for her empty pastime at rehearsals and all kinds of events. Teacher Education and the mother of two children, Bibigul said that after graduation to work, it has not got a job, explaining that it is not got enough knowledge to teach their children. Bibigul wants to let the correspondence, but to unlearn in some foreign university.

– Only with a clear conscience and knowledge of the business, I could begin to educate their children – says 32-year-old resident of Ashgabat.

"The era of power and happiness"

Five years ago, in the secondary schools of Turkmenistan was restored ten years, and four years in high school education. However, since then to improve the quality of education was not seen. The fact that in secondary schools in the neighboring countries for a long time there are 11-year secondary education, it seems, the Turkmen authorities are not very worried. Although this factor creates certain difficulties for those kind of guys who are trying to continue their education abroad.

Ministry of Education and school leaders are still wary of introducing into the school process of progressive forms of training.

But welcome visual aids, to glorify and strengthen the cult of the new president , Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov . Moreover, training students on almost all subjects continued to pass through the prism of the cult of personality of the president.

Even held April 26 in Turkmenistan International scientific-practical conference was called ideological "Modern methods of improving education in the era of power and happiness."

According to local observers, the slipping of the education reform violates the law on education in Turkmenistan, adopted in early 2007.

Guilty of this, local lawyers say the government is not fulfilling an article of the law, which states that the Government should "ensure the implementation and protection of citizens’ constitutional right to education."

But nobody in this country are not punished. And young people were forced to continue to participate in various activities, which are only scheduled for June, more than fifty.

Source :: RL

Any Foreign Intervention Into Balochistan Unacceptable

Foreign interruption into Balochistan unacceptable: Bugti

balochwarna

GENEWA (SANA): Bloch Nationalist Leader Brahamdagh Bugti has said that he is against the interruption of every foreign power into Balochistan including Pakistan and United States.
In an interview with BBC Urdu, Bugti while talking on the recently held Balochistan conference by the Supreme Court Bar Association, said that he was always ready to speak for the rights of the ethnic Baloch living in the province, but not about the Pakhtuns residing in Balochistan, adding that the time is over to discuss the Balochistan problem and to hold conferences in this regard.
While talking about raising the Balochistan issue in the US Congress, Bugti said that purpose of raising the issue was not to put pressure on Pakistan whereas it was the result of efforts made by Baloch people living abroad.
It is with mentioning here that in February this year, US Republican Party member Dana Rohrabacher submitted a resolution in the US co Congress in which it was stated that Baloch nation has the historical right of self-determination but this was severely criticized in Pakistan.
Commenting on the NATO supply passing through Balochistan, Bugti said it was essential to take Baloch representatives into confidence over the matter. He avoided condemning the armed struggle in Balochistan.
According to Bugti, the Baloch nation would take decision on any gas pipeline coming from Turkmenistan, Afghanistan or Iran and passing through Balochistan.
http://www.sananews.net/english/forei … istan-unacceptable-bugti/

Zionist Press Setting Stage for “Hot Pursuit” of Syrian Chemical Weapons Into Lebanon

Syrian protesters living in Jordan burn shoes symbolizing Iran (L-R), Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Russia and China during a protest against the killing of at least 108 people in the Syrian town of Houla last Friday, outside the Syrian embassy in Amman May 31, 2012. (MUHAMMAD HAMED/REUTERS)

Israeli concern mounts over Syrian arms

PATRICK MARTIN

JERUSALEM — The Globe and Mail

Israeli officials say they are increasingly concerned that advanced missiles and even chemical weapons are being transferred from Syria to forces of the Lebanese Shia militia movement, Hezbollah.

Israeli and U.S. officials have long warned about such a transfer should Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s grip on power falter. And, with the fallout from last weekend’s massacre of civilians in the Syrian area of Houla, that grip may well have weakened.

This, officials said, is all the more reason to take seriously the warning issued Wednesday by Ali Larijani, Speaker of Iran’s parliament. Should the United States or any other country intervene militarily in Syria, Mr. Larijani said, “ash rising from the flames would definitely envelop the Zionist regime [Israel]”

Syrians already have transferred Scud D surface-to-surface missiles to Hezbollah in the last few months, wrote military analyst Alex Fishman, quoting unnamed Defence Ministry sources in Friday’s Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. The missiles, which can carry a chemical warhead and have a range of 700 kilometres, are capable of hitting any target in Israel.

The Israel Defence Forces say there has been a “regular transfer” of weapons from Syria to Hezbollah that began before the uprising against the Assad government. Since the Assad regime’s loss of total control, however, transfers have increased, the IDF says, and have included unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones, as well as shore-to-ship missiles and, most recently, the Scud D.

“The more Assad loses his grip, the transfers will increase,” an IDF officer said earlier this year. “We’re troubled by the transfer of strategic components from Syria to Lebanon, and if that happens, it might be cause for a more active response.”

“Based on information that we have, there are reasons to believe that there is a flow of arms both ways – from Lebanon into Syria and from Syria into Lebanon,” confirmed Terje Roed-Larsen, a special United Nations envoy in Lebanon, earlier this month.

Until now, the weapons heading to Hezbollah are said to have included a large quantity of medium- and long-range rockets and advanced anti-aircraft weapons, as well as the latest generation of Iranian UAVs. The drone, known as the Ababil (meaning swallow), is small and particularly difficult to shoot down.

Chemical weapons, however, may soon be added to that list. Syria has a large, lethal stockpile of such materiel, including Sarin and VX agents.

Earlier this year, Foreign Policy magazine, citing three different U.S. officials, reported that the United States sent out a message to Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, warning them about chemical weapons crossing over their borders in the event of the collapse of the Assad regime.

“These weapons’ presence in Syria undermines peace and security in the Middle East, and we have long called on the Syrian government to destroy its chemical-weapons arsenal and join the Chemical Weapons Convention,” a U.S. State Department official told Foreign Policy.

“We believe Syria’s chemical-weapons stockpile remains under Syrian government control, and we will continue to work closely with like-minded countries to prevent proliferation of Syria’s chemical-weapons program,” the official added.

From Israel’s perspective, a transfer of chemical weapons, or even of missiles likely to be used to transport them, will be perceived as “a red line” that has been crossed.

One defence official was reported to have told Israeli journalists it would amount to a “declaration of war.” Though Syria possesses large quantities of such weapons as a deterrent, it has behaved responsibly with them, the official said in February. Hezbollah, however, “is a terror organization and is far less predictable,” he explained, “and it must not be allowed to toy with the idea of using non-conventional weapons.”

Qatar Demands UN Set Syrian Deadline and Take Chapter 7 Military Measures

Qatar demands timeframe for UN envoy’s Syria mission

 

The fat pig of Qatar

DOHA: Qatar on Saturday urged UN envoy Kofi Annan to set a timeframe for his Syria peace mission, and asked the UN Security Council to apply Chapter VII which permits military intervention.
"We request Mr. Annan to set a timeframe for his mission because it is unacceptable that massacres and bloodshed continue while the mission is ongoing indefinitely," Qatar Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al-Thani told a ministerial committee on Syria attended by Annan.
"We demand the UN Security Council to refer the six-point (Annan plan) to Chapter VII so that the international community could assume responsibilities, he said.
The Qatari premier, whose country has been taking a leading role in mobilising the international community to act against Damascus over its 15-month deadly crackdown on dissent, said the Syrian regime "makes a mistake in betting on surviving this way."
He accused the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime of ignoring Annan’s six-point peace plan, saying Damascus "did not implement the first point of the plan and ignored the rest."
Annan’s plan calls for a halt to violence, daily two-hour humanitarian truce, media access to areas of fighting, the launching of a political dialogue, the right to demonstrate and the release of detainees.
In April, the UN Security Council unanimously passed its first ever resolution on the Syria crisis, allowing for a team of unarmed ceasefire monitors.
Some 300 monitors have been allowed into Syria, but the UN-backed ceasefire which technically went into effect on April 12 has been violated daily as deadly violence continues to plague the country.
- AFP/cc

British Intelligence Caught Smuggling Suicide Bomber Belts Into Afghanistan?

[SEE: Were British Special Forces Soldiers Planting Bombs in Basra?]

UK arms Afghan suicide bombers?

British intelligence provides the Taliban with explosives for suicide bombers’ “belts” while trying to veil under anti-terrorism fight.

PanARMENIAN.Net

Afghanistan’s national police officer claimed that a representative of the British intelligence brought at least 15 suicide bomber “belts” to Kabul.

“On April 20, I was on duty at Kabul airport customs terminal; I witnessed a British intelligence officer who, along with three British militaries tried to get away with a rather large box delivered to Kabul by ISAF plane, with no customs inspection. I knew this officer by sight since he was a frequent visitor at Kabul airport. I asked the British military to show their cargo documents; they refused to do it. When I persisted in my request, they said I had no right to demand anything from them since they enjoyed diplomatic immunity. When I told them my boss’s order bans me from allowing cargo out without examination, a squabble emerged between us. I ordered my assistants never permit the British vehicle out of the terminal gates until I contacted my boss. At this moment, one of the British militaries put his gun against the chest of a police officer in an attempt to open the gates. The other police officer seized the box handle and pulled it. The box fell on the ground and flung open. I was amazed to discover that it contained at least 15 and maybe even 20 “belts” for suicide bombers.

The British intelligence officer rushed to drag the box away and called someone on the mobile phone; after this, he started threatening us with his gun. In less than two minutes, three armoured vehicles with ISAF numbers approached the terminal gates; those inside the cars again threatened us with weapon. We had nothing else to do but move away, while the British car left the gates.

My boss called my in the evening saying I had to visit the military prosecutor’s office the following day for explanations. I realized this meant death to me, and instead of going to work, I took my family, rented a car and left for Pakistan through Turham the following morning,” the source says.

The officer of Afghanistan’s national police also said the British intelligence provides the Talibans with explosives required to make suicide bombers’ “belts”, trying to veil under the anti-terrorism fight. Yet a question emerges as to how many “belts” the British brought to Kabul and other Afghan regions?

The future of Afghanistan after ISAF withdrawal is easy to predict; Afghans are quite experienced in turning their country into an utter chaos. However, the U.S. and its allies seem to show little concern over this. They will support the forces that provide uninterrupted drug traffic from Afghanistan; it is time to call a spade a spade. Meanwhile, all talks on training the local police officers for peace are nothing but an attempt to gild the pill. As soon as the Afghan people are left to themselves, another civil war will flare up in the region. Actually, it never ceased since 1979.

Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Hazāras fail to come to terms with each other; first, due to fundamental internal differences and also the Islam branches they practice, and second, because key players will never allow them come to agreement. Sunni Pashtuns, the majority of Taliban, will massacre all Shiite Hazāras unless Iran stands up to protect them in a most decisive move. This will result in a civil war, or rather a local conflict which may then grow into a bigger threat.

Revelations about other “peacekeeping” countries providing the Afghan terrorists with armament are likely to be published shortly. However, it should be reminded that supply of arms to Afghan mujahideen militants started back during Soviet intervention which was nothing but a reckless scheme.

It would be interesting to know what price the suicide bombers paid for the British “aid”, and what share the Afghan officials had in this…?

Karine Ter-Sahakian

UN Must Expel Member States Who Hire Mercenary Armies To Fight Proxy Wars

Syria and the need for the UN to expel members for sponsoring mercenaries

Murad Makhmudov and Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

 

The conspiracy against Syria which is causing daily carnage is beyond imagination. Therefore, it is time for the United Nations to act and expel nations which are sponsoring mercenaries and terrorists. After all, the government of Syria is facing a media war, an economic war, and a deadly terrorist and mercenary war. The upshot of this is that various proxies are killing Syrians in the name of Sunni Islamic jihad, an outside agenda, money, criminality, and because of a regional game, whereby the last major secular and independent nation in the Arabic speaking world is crushed

Many major Western media outlets are distorting reality when they report about deaths in Syria because what is the Syrian army meant to do?  This is based on nations like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and others, with the central theme being connected to ratlines in Washington, Paris, and London; whereby a brutal conflict is being unleashed against the people of Syria.

Western media and Sunni Islamic media outlets are pointing the finger at the government of Bashar al-Assad. However, the hypocrisy of this fact beggars belief. After all, it is apparent to every individual witnessing events in Syria that Sunni Islamic terrorists, mercenaries, and a mish-mash of groups, are being re-armed with more sophisticated weapons. Therefore, the responsibility of the death toll belongs to outside governments which are attacking a sovereign nation by using many different proxies, in order to crush the independent government of Syria.

It is also abundantly clear that Western ratlines which linked former Libyan Al Qaeda members to ignite the uprising in Libya are also being used once more to destabilize Syria. Therefore, a unified media war, economic war, the sponsoring of Sunni Islamic terrorism, and various proxies, including the Free Syrian Army (FSA), is being aimed at the government of Syria. This is breaking all conventions within the United Nations because it is not only an act of massive criminality, which is trying to ignite sectarianism and overthrow the government of Syria, but it is an “act of war” against an independent and sovereign nation.

A spokesman for the United Nations, Martin Nesirky, commented about a “third force” which was “at play in Syria and that this undoubtedly complicates the task for the monitors and the international community in seeking to ensure that the six-point plan is fully implemented.”

Martin Nesirky further commented that ”some of the attacks that have been seen are of the kind and nature that suggests that there is behind them a force or element with the organizational capacity and political intent to carry out violence on that scale.”

These comments by Martin Nesirky are welcomed but they don’t go far enough because he states that this “complicates the task for the monitors and the international community.” However, it is elements within the international community which are causing this mayhem. Therefore, a major investigation is needed whereby China, the Russian Federation, Brazil, and all nations opposed to the carnage in Syria, hold a resolution whereby the sponsors of terrorism, arming mercenaries, training military proxies, and so forth, are condemned for breaking international law. Also, the United Nations by itself must rebuke the mass violation of international law because a resolution by itself would fail, based on the fact that America, France, and the United Kingdom, would veto all resolutions which condemn them.

Hervé Ladsous, UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, commented in Damascus during a press conference that “I have learned that there is a third party which doesn’t commit to the Syrian people’s track because it is adhered to special agendas…so we have to keep our eyes open and know that there are terrorist attacks and explosions.”

It is also essential that all opposition groups within Syria which are against violence must stand up and be counted. Syria is now facing a brutal and barbaric conflict against its citizens, whereby the most indoctrinated and criminal sections within Syria are being supported to create carnage and mayhem. At the same time, international Sunni Islamic jihadists, covert operatives, mercenaries, and a mish mash of various proxies, are attacking the people of Syria because of outside support.

Of course the media war against Syria will continue but clearly the death total is increasing because of outside meddling which applies to financing terrorism and mercenaries. Areas under the control of the so-called FSA have cleansed Christians and other minorities.

The collective armed forces of Syria are doing their best to protect all Syrians and this applies to Muslims, Christians, the Druze, and the rich mosaic of this nation. After all, the Syrian armed forces represent all the communities of Syria. However, the brutal economic, military, and media war is increasing the ratchet against this sovereign nation. Therefore, more needs to be done against outside nations which are sponsoring this bloodshed because it is not only a violation against international law, but it is a crime against humanity whereby outside forces are supporting terrorism, sectarianism, and untold carnage.

http://www.sana.sy/eng/22/2012/05/26/421489.htm

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Putin highlights hypocrisy – reality of Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan

Syria and Russia: Putin remains firm and highlights hypocrisy – reality of Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan

Boutros Hussein and Lee Jay Walker

Modern Tokyo Times

President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation is highlighting the need to resolve international disputes through the proper channels of international law and diplomacy. On the other hand, many political leaders in America appear all too hasty to start another major war and create yet another failed state. Vladimir Putin commented about this reality and given the facts of Afghanistan, Kosovo, Iraq, and Libya; then it would take a brave individual to disagree.

Iraq even today can’t hold a major international conference without spending vast resources on protecting any specific event from the threat of terrorism. Obviously, the fact that the leaders of America, the United Kingdom, France, and others, have to sneak into Afghanistan and back out again quickly highlights the complete failure of decades of Western meddling. Indeed, Afghanistan under Najibullah was more secular and progressive compared with the current reality of this nation.

Modern day Afghanistan is based on continuing feudalism, a land where apostates face death, women throughout most of the nation remain discriminated against, and the Taliban can strike at any moment. On top of this, you still have a major heroin problem and the central government is not only weak, it is corrupt and is increasingly more conservative. Therefore, since Western and Sunni Islamic states began to meddle into Afghanistan they have done nothing but spread terrorism and a dangerous ideology during the first stage. Then after September 11, former allies have become estranged friends and this notably applies to the relationship between America and Pakistan.

Similarly, in Libya many atrocities have been committed by the new power brokers. Indeed, it is difficult to state “power brokers” because various militias and regions have their own power bases. Therefore, the central authority is very weak and clearly tensions throughout Libya remain. Also, many black Africans were lynched by the so-called progressive forces in the early period. Today, meanwhile, many allegations of torture have come to the fore and very little progress is being made.

Vladimir Putin therefore is disillusioned by the constant posturing of certain nations towards bombing and supporting covert operations against independent nations. In Kosovo, the United States and United Kingdom supported Hashim Thaci who is tainted by the organ scandal. Also, Kosovo remains to be a land where Orthodox Christians can’t travel freely in the place of their birth and criminality remains a fact of life.

Vojin Joksimovich wrote in Modern Tokyo Times, regarding the organ scandal in Kosovo, that “In this era of WikiLeaks the UN report dated October 30, 2003 was leaked.  France 24 TV channel was one of several media outlets to reveal the content of this confidential report. Even this author managed to get a copy of this 29 page report. The report originated from Eamonn Smyth, Head of ICTY Mission in Skopje and Pristina to Patrick Lopez Terres, Chief of the ICTY Investigations. The report says that 100-300 mostly Serbian men were abducted and taken by truck/van to detention facilities in Albanian towns of Kukes and Tropoje. Beginning in August 1999 some of these captives (24-100) was transferred from Northern Albania to secondary detention facilities (private homes and rough industrial compounds) in central Albania, mainly near the towns of Burrel and Peshkopi. Then they were moved to a private house south of Burrel that was setup as a makeshift clinic. There, medical equipment and personnel were used to extract body organs from the abductees, who then died. Their remains were buried nearby. The organs were transported to Rinas airport near Tirana. It should be noted that the airport was under the NATO control. A small number of female captives from Kosovo, Albania and Eastern Europe were also taken to the clinic. In addition to abductees taken to Albania alive, an unknown number of bodies of Serbian civilians killed in Kosovo were transported to Albania and buried in remote locations. The last delivery of captives was reported in spring or early summer 2000.

“The report identifies at least eight sources, all ethnic Albanians from Kosovo and Montenegro who served in the KLA. In the report they were listed with numbers as their identities were withheld. Four, who have directly participated in the transport of at least 90 Serbs, provided very detailed accounts of their roles including the exact dates. Of these, three sources delivered captives to the house/clinic south of Burrel. Two have participated in the disposal of human remains and one who has participated in the delivery of body parts to Rinas airport. The transports and surgical procedures were carried out with the knowledge and/or active involvement of mid-level and senior KLA officers. Doctors from Kosovo as well as an Arab doctor were involved. The operation was supported by the men with links to the Albanian secret police operatives of the government of Sali Berisha. Maps of the site locations were included. 10 Serbian victims were identified by name.”

Diana Johnstone commented that “Human rights campaigners in the self-righteous Western democracies are intransigent when it comes to ending what they call ‘the culture of impunity’ so long as it involves, say, Africa. But their own impunity and that of their clients seems more secure than ever.” This comment also applies to the current reality in Syria whereby international terrorists and outside nations are spreading sectarianism in Syria.

Francois Hollande, the new President of France, is already highlighting “a war mongering touch” within just a short period in office. He, like political leaders in America and the United Kingdom, are all too keen to blame the Syrian government for any misdeed. However, when the Free Syrian Army (FSA) which is a fusion of mercenaries, terrorists, and criminals, does massacres and ignites sectarianism then the same Western powers remain silent. This isn’t surprising given their “partners in crime” – Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Qatar – are all assisting in the terrorist and sectarian ratlines engulfing parts of Syria.

President Hollande also insists that President Bashar al-Assad must leave office but Vladimir Putin openly states that this depends on the “will” of the Syrian people. Hollande, just like President Obama, promised “a new world” based on greater transparency and international dialogue. However, behind the rhetoric of both are the same failed policies of supporting international terrorism and giving a “green light” to outside nations to spread their carnage.

Vladimir Putin dismisses many negative comments by certain political leaders who desire to enforce “their thinking” on the people of Syria. He stated that “If you think you can decide that for other nations, go to Cairo now and take part in the Egyptian presidential elections. You can’t do that! Nor can you or anyone else do that in Syria.”

Vladimir Putin further commented that “Why do we think that if we push someone from the current leadership away from power, prosperity will arrive there tomorrow?”

“What is happening in Libya? We all know what kind of a tyrant [Muammar] Gaddafi was…But do you know what was happening in Sirte when militants entered the city? Why do you not write about that? Has humanitarian wellbeing settled there?”

Many citizens in America, the United Kingdom, France, and other nations, are fed up with constant wars, media manipulations, and covert operations involving their elected leaders who are acting undemocratically. Of course, many will agree, but overall the vast majority is disillusioned despite all the domestic propaganda. After all, modern day Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo, and Libya, are all failed states or patched up states (Kosovo not recognized by the majority of international nations). On top of this, hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and terrorism is a fact of life in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria because of outside meddling. Meanwhile, an organ tainted leader in Kosovo was supported – implying that killing individuals for organs is acceptable to leaders in Washington and London – because the same individual is free to visit America. Yet while he is free Orthodox Christian children in Kosovo have to be protected if they want to travel freely.

If killing hundreds of thousands of people is deemed fine, increasing narcotic problems (Afghanistan and Kosovo), creating a vacuum whereby terrorists flourish, and then taking the independence away from nations which were sovereign; then by all means, support individuals like Susan Rice, the American representative. However, if you are internationalist and support independence and “a collective approach” when the time is needed – then surely Vladimir Putin makes a million times more sense than the posturing of Hillary Clinton and Susan Rice.

The brutal murders of Muammar Gaddafi and Najibullah in Afghanistan highlight the bloody nature of the forces that were supported to overthrow both individuals. In the case of Kosovo you had political elites within the Albanian leadership who were involved in killing individuals for organs. Meanwhile, Saddam Hussein was taunted and goaded before being killed by the new state apparatus of Iraq.

Saddam Hussien and Muammar Gaddafi were once supported by the same nations which turned against them. It is clear that many atrocities took place under Saddam Hussein but during his time he served the West and Saudi Arabia well by keeping Iran in check. It is this utter hypocrisy and ruthlessness which makes individuals question their-own-so-called political leaders. Therefore, is it progressive to support terrorism and sectarianism against the Syrian people?

Vladimir Putin praised the Kofi Annan plan not because of the current reality on the ground which is being made worse by outside meddling. He did this on the grounds that Kofi Annan is seeking a solution to a complex problem based on political dialogue and not war.

Vladimir Putin stated during his meeting with Chancellor Merkel of Germany, that ”Russia has a good and long-standing relationship with Syria…We support Syria’s stability, sovereignty and people, and all parties should support the plan of the UN envoy Kofi Annan.”

”We have to stop talking about aborting Annan’s plan…Our mission is to end violence in Syria by all sides, and we agreed with Merkel that Russia, Germany and our partners have to de-escalate violence and help Annan achieve that.”

”We believe that we can hold dialogue at the United Nations Security Council, and sure we’ll have contacts with the Syrian leadership and will be in contact with the countries interested in this issue…We will do our best to reach a nonviolent, political solution to the crisis in Syria.”

It is hoped that the Russian Federation will not cave in to international pressure from Washington, London, Paris, Ankara, and Riyadh. Syria needs to be “a line which isn’t walked over” by hypocrites who have supported tainted individuals involved in organ scandals, covertly supported terrorists, remain quiet about the lynching of black Africans in Libya, and other vile episodes. The situation in Syria is being made complex because of the dangerous terrorist and sectarian policies of nations like Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar – along with the usual players – this must end because history is repeating itself too much.

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