CIA behind Paris attack?

 

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“The new information has almost confirmed that Paris attack was a false flag operation carried out by the CIA, says Soraya Sepahpour Ulrich, an independent researcher and writer based in Irvine, California.”

“’We have been told by the mainstream media, the Western media, that a Yemeni reporter has claimed that he had interviewed Kouachi who was responsible for the Paris attack, or one of those who were responsible,’ she said. ‘And he had ties with ‘the underwear bomber’, who was held responsible for wanting to blow up an airliner at Christmas in 2009,’ Ulrich added. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was convicted of attempting to detonate plastic explosives hidden in his underwear while on board Northwest Airlines Flight 253, en route from Amsterdam to Detroit, Michigan.”

“US and Yemeni officials told The Associated Press in May 2012 that the so-called underwear bomber was in fact working under cover for Saudi intelligence and the CIA when he was given a new non-metallic type bomb aimed at getting past airport security. Ulrich said that it’s important to mention that the so-called underwear bomber slipped past the security ‘when Israeli intelligence was in charge of the Amsterdam airport — [its] security.’ She added that intelligence officials failed to scrutinize the bomb and helped the bomber getting on the plane, which ‘indicates to me that they all were aware of this individual’s job.’”

“’So at the end of the day we have to understand who is gaining by all these alleged attacks,’ Ulrich emphasized. People are not being told the truth; they are ‘told a bunch of lies that are supposedly not connected and somehow when they do get connected we trace it back to the intelligence services, like the CIA.’”

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2015/01/13/392957/Info-confirms-CIA-link-to-Parris-attack

“Said Kouachi, one of the two gunmen involved in last week’s massacre at the offices of the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, once told a Yemeni reporter that he had lived with Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the Nigerian ‘underwear bomber’ behind the failed 2009 terror plot on a Detroit-bound airliner.”

http://news.yahoo.com/kouachi-underwear-bomber-roomate-yemen-184021010.html

“A would-be ‘underwear bomber’ involved in a plot to attack a US-based jet was in fact working as an undercover informer with Saudi intelligence and the CIA, it has emerged. […] Citing US and Yemeni officials, Associated Press reported that the unnamed informant was working under cover for the Saudis and the CIA when he was given the bomb, which was of a new non-metallic type aimed at getting past airport security.”

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/may/09/underwear-bomber-working-for-cia

Egypt and Russia to Finalize Gazprom LNG Deal

Oil and Gas: Egypt and Russia to finalise Gazprom LNG deal

Egypt has had difficulty securing imports because it lacks a terminal to process LNG, which is natural gas chilled into a liquid state. Photo©Reuters

Egypt is set to complete an agreement with Russia’s Gazprom for the company to supply it with liquefied natural gas (LNG) shipments before the end of January. The North Africa country agreed in principle last April for Gazprom to supply seven LNG shipments to help it meet gas supplies needed to face its worst energy crisis in decades.

A Gazprom delegation would visit Egypt in mid-January, Egyptian Oil Minister Sharif Ismail told Reuters on Sunday.

If successful, the Gazprom deal would be the second LNG import agreement since Egypt finalised a deal for the necessary import infrastructure in November.

Egypt signed an agreement with Algeria for six LNG cargoes in late December.

The country of 86 million relies heavily on gas to generate power for households and industry, but has had difficulty securing imports because it lacks a terminal to process LNG, which is natural gas chilled into a liquid state.

But after two years of delays, Egypt contracted Norway’s Hoegh LNG for a floating storage and regasification unit, opening the door to LNG imports.

The terminal is meant to be operational by the end of March.

Egypt has turned from an energy exporter to a net importer due to increasing consumption and decreasing production.

The government has cut fuel subsidies to curb consumption and has tried to reduce its debt to foreign energy companies to encourage investment.

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Innocuous-Sounding UN “Resilience” Campaign Back-Door For Machinery of Control

[Part of the risk reduction regime (MANAGING DISASTERS AND CONFLICTS IN OIC COUNTRIES–Organization of Islamic Cooperation)]

Cities in Central Asia, Caucasus sign up to UN campaign to become more resilient

Tbilisi, Georgia. Photo: Radmilla Suleymanova

12 January 2015 – Eight cities in Central Asia and the Caucasus, including capitals Tbilisi and Bishkek, have signed on to strengthen community resilience by integrating disaster risk reduction into their national and local policy, representing a big boost for the United Nations initiative which already has over 2,400 participants worldwide.

The global campaign, Making Cities Resilient: My City is Getting Ready!, launched in 2010 for a period of five years until 2015, is promoted by the Geneva-based UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR).

“The campaign helps participants to become better organized and to identify key priorities for action for risk reduction. They can also benefit from the shared experience of other participants facing similar challenges. It is a very dynamic and interactive campaign,” said Madhavi Malalgoda Ariyabandu, UNISDR regional coordinator.

UNISDR’s initiative, now in partnership with the European Commission Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection department (ECHO), is titled “Strengthened Disaster Risk Reduction in Central Asia and the Caucasus through greater fostering of the Hyogo Framework for Action priorities.”

The eight cities to sign up are Noyemberyan and Berd in Armenia; Tbilisi and Gori in Georgia; Oskemen and Ridder in Kazakhstan; and Bishkek and Kara-Kol in Kyrgyzstan.

“These cities and towns are committing to a ten-point checklist of actions which help them to become resilient to disasters and to manage their growth in a sustainable way,” said Ms. Ariyabandu.

The worldwide campaign is based on 10 essentials for developing local resilience, which in turn build on the five priorities for action of the Hyogo Framework for Action (HFA), endorsed by UN Member States for the period 2005-2015.

Central Asia and the Caucasus are exposed to a range of natural and technological hazards such as earthquakes, landslides, mud and debris flows, avalanches, floods, drought and extreme temperatures inflicting serious human and economic losses. Risks and exposure to risk are exacerbated by the rapid growth of urban population and climate change.

Over the 30-year period from 1980, 14 million people were affected by 131 major disaster events with economic losses of $3.8 billion. The destructive earthquake in Spitak, Armenia in 1988 and the extreme cold spell across Central Asia in 2008, prove the importance of strengthening communities.

To address these challenges, the campaign will aim to build local capacity to assess risks of natural hazards, update action plans which are disaster risk inclusive, increase accessibility of international expertise in disaster risk reduction, and foster exchange of experiences between municipalities and local governments.

A post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction is expected to be approved at a world conference, in March 2015, in Sendai, Japan, emphasizing the need to continue to work to strengthen community resilience, particularly in municipalities with less than 10,000 inhabitants.

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Implementation of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction

5. Further, a confluence of risk drivers are compounding losses and need to be

both better understood and better addressed. Development that fails to assess risk, environmental degradation, climate change, poverty and inequality, weak

governance mechanisms and rapid urbanization in highly exposed areas are fueling losses and exacerbating both the vulnerability and exposure of societies to disaster losses

6. Urbanization in hazard-prone areas demands risk assessment and planning

with foresight…Given that 60 per cent of the area expected to be urban in 2030 remains to be built, the opportunity to proactively shape and plan the cities of tomorrow must be seized.

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8.  Risks need to be understood and proactively managed at the community level. An evidence-based and integrated approach by both the public and private sectors needs to be institutionalized, so that investments are made more resilient.

10.  Methodologies and tools for assessing the “na-tech” risk, as the combined risk posed by the natural and technological is sometimes referred to, are limited and need to be invested in. Several factors need to be taken into consideration in establishing integrated strategies for reducing the risk of potential nuclear,

technological, biological, chemical or radiological events, given the wide-ranging implications they can have on health, agriculture, the wider environment and the safety of people and communities in general.

Guantanamo and The Saudi Rehabilitation Program Behind AQAP–(Intentional, or Major Fowl-UP?)

The Eleven Saudi Guantanamo Veterans Returning to the Fight

“Arguably, the most dangerous of the eleven Saudi Gitmo veterans currently on the run—Saeed al-Shehri and Mohammed al-Harbi—were cooperative, non-confrontational, and even charming during their interactions with ARB panel members in Guantanamo Bay. One cannot but appreciate the irony
of Mohammed al-Harbi—now thought to be in the midst of planning imminent terrorist attacks against U.S. interests in Saudi Arabia and in Yemen—making a “heartfelt” offer “to work for American authorities once he was back in Saudi Arabia.”356

356 “Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the Case of al Harbi, Mohamed Atiq Awayd.” Administrative Review Board (ARB) Round 2. U.S. Department of Defense; Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy