Update on Raif Badawi
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31786564
Saudi Arabia has expressed "surprise and dismay" at international media reports criticising the flogging of a Saudi blogger for insulting Islam. In its first official statement on the case the foreign ministry said it rejected any interference in its internal affairs.
The foreign ministry said it could not accept any impingement on the country's sovereignty, or on the impartiality of its judiciary system. "The kingdom unequivocally rejects any aggression under the pretext of human rights," it added.
Activists of the global civic movement Avaaz handed over 1.1m signatures to a petition to Sigmar Gabriel as he left Berlin for Riyadh on Saturday. Gabriel is German's economic affairs minister and vice chancellor currently visiting Saudi Arabia.
REMARKS: Saudi will not accept any impingement on it's country's sovereignty and judicial system. Translation, countries should still do trade and business deals with them and ignore any human rights violations because they have countrywide laws in place that they implement even if they are barbaric and violate what the rest of the world considers to be human rights. They think they have made enough concessions to the international world by agreeing to decrease his lashings.
My own opinion is he should have been told that his behavior was against state policy and he could leave the Kingdom or stop his activities. He wanted to change the Kingdom, but that will not happen. The only hope he had know is for the international community to seek leniency for him. He should be allowed asylum to Canada to live with his wife. That is the best outcome for him. The Kingdom cannot just let him go and do nothing, that would be against their own laws.
Fox news hires the man who says he killed Osama. Well today is Friday the 13th.
More later when I have time to do a more proper update.
Short Update.
YEMEN, IRAN, IRAQ
Yemen has asked for the UN to step in and take action. The Houthi rebels are almost to the Gulf of Aden, which is a big oil seaport among other things. (what other things? There is a portal there sort of like the Bermuda Triangle, where things can go from here to another place).
'Warplane attack'
"In the letter, President Hadi asked the UN Security Council to authorise "willing countries that wish to help Yemen to provide immediate support for the legitimate authority by all means and measures to protect Yemen and deter the Houthi aggression".
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32045984
The Houthis are in it for the long haul.
http://www.yementimes.com/en/1870/news/4997/Houthis-mobilize-for-“long-term”-war.htm
IRAN
March 31 is the deadline for them to agree with our anti-nuclear proliferation proposals whereby they give up centrifuges in return for some of the sanctions being lifted and agree to twenty year inspections and monitoring.
IRAQ
Isis is targeting and blowing up Christian homes in Ninevah province in Iraq. "A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that on Tuesday ISIL extremists stole property from the houses in the town of Qada' Talkif, located 24 kilometers (15 miles) northeast of the militant-held strategic city of Mosul, before demolishing them, Iraq’s al-Sumaria satellite TV network reported.
The development comes as ISIL has recently destroyed the 10th Century Chaldean Catholic monastery of St. George north of Mosul. The monastery, founded by the Assyrian Church of the East, had been converted into a seminary by the Chaldean Catholic Church in 1846. Earlier this month, ISIL fighters blew up parts of the ancient monastery of Mar Behnam near the predominantly Christian town of Qaraqosh, located about 32 kilometers (19 miles) southeast of Mosul.
On February 19, elements of the ISIL terrorist group detonated the Virgin Mary Church north of Mosul, using improvised explosive devices. "
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/03/24/403251/ISIL-blows-up-10-Christian-houses-in-Iraq
REMARKS: The Holy War that Osama spoke of is happening. It just looks sectarian, but it all leads up to the ultimate battle, where Jesus himself will be leading a group of fighters against a most evil deceptive, tyrannical leader who will be seated in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, the next seat of the new govt., the one world govt. It's not just a story, these events are the things leading up to that.
As to the troubles in Yemen, well the war prophecied to come also involves Saudi Arabia, and has the Shiite Mahdi coming from the land of Khorasan, (which is Iran, the tribal areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan). He will go to Saudi to hide from that army that will not be stopped (Isis), but that army will broaden it's base and many Sunnis will join them to create one bigger army of Muslims vs. every other religion, and they will convince the Mahdi, the guided one to join them on the trip to take over Jerusalem. 1300 years ago the Prophet of Islam was told these things would come to pass. What you are seeing happening in the Middle East was foretold thousands of years ago.
It is also written about in Ezekiel in the Bible. Chapter 38.
It's all coming to pass as it was written.
[Edited on 3/25/2015 by gina]
Short Update 3.25.15
SAUDIA ARABIA, SYRIA, IRAQ & JORDAN
The Saudis are not taking the Houthi incursion in Yemen lightly. They are preparing to secure their own borders. They are building their own naval base in Jazan and also housing for the troops. They already know at some point ISIL will have their eyes on conquering Saudi Arabia, they are progressive in pre-planning.
"During his recent trip to the region, the minister met with top commanders and officials in the region to discuss ways to support military efforts and systems. Prince Mohammed boarded a helicopter to Al-Khubah, where he inspected the Advanced Operations Center and discussed its activities, military plans and tactics, and the importance of upgrading the facility. He also visited the site for tactical forces, rapid intervention forces of the 18th Brigade, the center for wireless reconnaissance, and Al-Lona drone fleet, which was recently upgraded with the latest technology.
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/722991
SYRIA/IRAQ
Meanwhile, even though no one can find him, Syrian and Iraqi officials had no problem meeting with Syrian President Bashar al Assad on Tuesday to discuss what is going on in his country.
JORDAN
They are going to train Syrian rebels with the $500 million the US has sent over there.
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentid=20150325238083
Af-Pak? The drones keep flying in Pakistan, they took out one of the founding members of Tehrik-e-Taliban this past weekend, and the situation in Afghanistan is so bad that Hazaras (Shiites) have asked Afghan talibs for help to prevent some Isis loyalists from killing them, and the Afghans have said they will help them. Yes the same Hazaras they fought, brutally and extremely some years back. They know it is ISIS vs. every other group. They will NOT align with Isis, even if there are but two Aghan talibs left standing, they will NOT give in and go along with the crowd.
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SYRIA and PALESTINE
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32147888
Islamic State (IS) militants have entered the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, activists and Palestinian officials say. Yarmouk residents told BBC Arabic that members of Aknaf Beit al-Maqdis, a group formed by Palestinian militiamen opposed to the Syrian government, were leading the fight against the IS militants, along with some Free Syrian Army fighters
The Palestinian Ambassador to Damascus, Anwar Abdulhadi, told the BBC that the group had seized the area of the camp near the Palestine Hospital. The UN says about 18,000 Palestinian refugees are inside the camp.
Comments: The 18,000 people who have been refugees in that camp were cut off from food, water and essential supplies. The video in the attached link was done prior to the Islamic State taking over the camp. One has to wonder if the Islamic State will be able to facilitate feeding and providing decent shelter to the people there. We all know they will want them to join them, they will want to recruit them, but some of the fears are that they will do it with ultimatums, and to do that upon an already tormented people would be unconscionable. What the Islamic State did in Raqaa (from their videos) seemed like they restored law and order to the town. This means it is possible. If they want the refugees to consider joining them there must not be orange jumpsuits and beheadings. If they truly want to lead a meaningful movement to Jerusalem, they have to change their tactics with the common people. If they want to take over land and peoples third Reich style, the world will respond the same way it did when Hitler wanted to take over the world.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/03/palestine-icc-entry-shake-peace-process-150331085009541.html
Palestine was added to the International Criminal Court Treaty effective April 1, which means the court can go and look at atrocities that have occurred there. Last year alone 2100 people died including 500 children as they were forced out of their homes illegally.
Remarks: This will get very interesting.
[Edited on 4/2/2015 by gina]
SYRIA
The child thought the photographer's camera was a gun and wanted to surrender rather than be shot. Even a child understands life, death and conquest. When does the carnage stop?
Update 4/17/15
YEMEN, SYRIA AND RUSSIAN/US RELATIONS
YEMEN
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif spoke with Ban Ki Moon, of the United Nations urging an end to the Saudi led airstrikes in Yemen against the Houthis (who are Shiites). He also requested humanitarian aid for the defenseless Yemeni people, which was granted by Ban Ki Moon. Also noteworthy is that Saudi never asked the UN for the permissibility of their airstrikes on Yemen. They might want to re-think that if they are going to continue defending their borders in that manner.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/16/406629/Iran-urges-halt-to-Saudi-attacks-on-Yemen
Hi level Paki delegation went to Riyadh to assure Saudi officials that they will support them in their desire for protection against incursions from Yemen. Saudi did launch airstrikes into Yemen against Houthi fighters last month. If Pakistan sends it’s drones there and starts anything against Al Qaida forces, that could be the spark that inspires Al Qaida to take not just Yemen, but Saudi as well.
http://paktribune.com/news/High-level-Pak-delegation-left-for-Riyadh-273535.html
ISLAMABAD: A high-level delegation led by Chief Minister Punjab Shahbaz Sharif along with Adviser on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz and Foreign Secretary Aizaz Chaudhry left for Saudi capital Riyadh on Wednesday 15,April,2015, the Foreign Office spokesperson confirmed. According to diplomatic sources, the delegation will meet Saudi foreign and defence ministers and is also expected to meet Saudi Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdul Aziz.
Saudi airstrikes killed civilians in a milk factory.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudiled-coalition-air-strikes-killed-31-civilians-in-yemen-factory-says-human-rights-watch-10181360.html
Meanwhile UAE wants Paki to send troops to Yemen.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/12-Apr-2015/send-troops-or-pay-the-price-uae-to-pakistan
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32341836
AQAP seizes airport in Yemen.
SYRIA – Assad is reportedly using chlorine gas even on children.
http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/283824/un-hears-accounts-of-syria-chemical-weapons-attacks/
RUSSIA & EASTERN EUROPE
NATO missile facilities in Poland and Romania are prime targets. Russia is not convinced we plan to play nice.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/04/16/406639/NATO-missiles-in-E-Europe-Russian-targets
The chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has warned the European countries planning to host the US-led NATO missile systems that Moscow considers the installations “priority targets,” as the systems possess offensive capabilities. “We don’t know what kind of orders the new Ukrainian authorities are receiving from their Western ‘curators’ and where Kiev’s aggression may be directed in the future,” he said.
REMARKS: Why do they worry about our intentions?
“NATO countries are actively pursuing an expansion of their geopolitical space, building up the military capabilities in Eastern Europe and closing in on Russia’s border. The focus of their drills in the alliance’s eastern front and Arctic region indicates their anti-Russian nature,” he said.
They're not stupid. There are some other problems going on in Northern Europe, and I'll tell you right now, Isis is doing what Hitler did, they will take it country by country, the same way he did. We are concerning ourselves with the Ukraine, let Russia do what they want with their own lands. We need to get out of that and stay out of that. That's not ALL we need to worry about either, did you know 57 that's right fifty seven countries are doing deals with China regarding BANKING, FINANCE and INFASTRUCTURE, acknowledging the reminbi as a good currency. We are on that highway to hell but I'll put up info on that in another update.
[Edited on 4/17/2015 by gina]
Update 4/18
SYRIA, TRADE DEALS and the Bigger Picture
Assad is blaming Turkey, saying that they stopped a peace plan.
http://www.arabnews.com/world/news/733791
TRADE DEALS
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-32330167
http://paktribune.com/news/Pakistan-test-fired-ballistic-missile-Ghauri-273534.html
http://www.dawn.com/news/1176302/chinese-president-to-visit-pakistan-hammer-out-46-billion-deal
Obama Trade Accord Deal Reached
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/17/business/obama-trade-legislation-fast-track-authority-trans-pacific-partnership.html?emc=edit_th_20150417&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=65678126
Now most of you think well so what, these countries do deals all the time. Lemme enlighten you.
A total of 57 countries have been approved as founding members of a new Chinese-backed infrastructure bank, Beijing said Wednesday. The latest seven countries approved as founding members by Wednesday's deadline were named by China's finance ministry as Sweden, Israel, South Africa, Azerbaijan, Iceland, Portugal and Poland.
http://www.norwaynews.com/en/~view.php?73Qaa54bLb4835w285kpm844QO3887QS76Bzg253Q5k8
They bring the total number of founding members to 57, including four of the United Nations Security Council's permanent five, 14 of the 28 European Union countries, and 21 members of the 34-strong Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The line-up does not include the United States or Japan but represents a diplomatic coup for China after close US allies such as Britain, France, Germany and Australia decided to participate even after Washington initially opposed them signing up. The institution is aimed at financing infrastructure development in Asia but critics have expressed concern about its standards and that it could rival the US-led World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, which is headed by Japan.
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/733751
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia will open its $532 billion stock market to direct foreign investment on June 15, allowing qualified foreign institutions to buy shares, the Capital Market Authority (CMA) said.
REMARKS: China will fund infrastructure for all the 57 countries, last year even Canada opened banks that will trade in the Chinese currency reminbi. But the US has the petro dollar, the oil is being traded in US dollars which supports our economy. Saudi now wants foreign investments in their own stock exchange. If the US dollar goes down, they do not want to.
China doing a deal with Pakistan also a dangerous play, because the war that will start between Pakistan and India will be over the water resources from the Indus River. If China becomes the benefactor of that and it's implications, they can exert their domination of South Central Asia which includes Pakistan/Afghanistan and the oil of the Caspian Sea and Balochistan. China aligns with Russia.
Is China positioning itself to acquire these other countries by doing what they did with the US, loaning them money on their debt. We can never pay it back, we are already owned by China, and those other countries may follow in the same path. What they becomes of the US dollar? Well you can use it for toilet paper when it becomes worthless and goods are traded in Reminbis.
You gotta pay attention to this stuff. If the dollar goes down, the govt. defaults on everything it pays. The 46 million people who get food stamps will not get anything. What will 46 million people marching on Washington look like? And that's only one segment effected.
We need to buy American, built American, stop importing/exporting. We need to become our own country once again before it is too late. The next revolution in this country will be worst terror attack on American soil because it will be led by Americans AND the govt. already bought up all that ammo and will use it against it's own people IF that time comes.
[Edited on 4/18/2015 by gina]
AFGHANISTAN
There is a faction of former Tehrik I Taliban fighters from Pakistan who pledged allegiance to Isis. Now we have a bombing in Jalabad with ISIS claiming responsibility.
Earlier this week, Mullah Omar issued a statement letting the fighters know anyone who pledges allegiance to the Islamic State is subject to execution by the Afghan Taliban mujahideen.
http://middleeastpress.net/english/?p=11543
Recently there was a short biography on Mullah Omar:
"Nearly two decades ago on this same faithful day, (April 4th) one thousand and five hundred scholars, dignitaries and Jihadi leaders of Afghanistan approved Mullah Mohammad Umar ‘Mujahid’ as the leader of the Islamic Emirate, gave an oath of allegiance to him and conferred the title of ‘Amir-ul-Momineen’ on him i.e. leader of the pious believers.
Professionally, the family of Mullah Mohammad Umar ‘Mujahid’ comprises of scholars and teachers of religious studies. They devoted all their lives to serving the sacred religion of Allah Almighty, to promoting religious knowledge and to educating the Muslim masses ideologically. Therefore they were deeply admired in their area and spiritually, they were considered the most dignified and social figures of the society."
[Mullah Omar is from the Hotak tribe who have quite a legacy in Afghanistan. The legacy goes back to the 1700's for this tribe of faithful Muslims].
Great Ghazi Haji Mirwais Khan Hotak (may Allah bless him), who is remembered with the venerated title of ‘Mirwais Nika’ (i.e. Mirwais, the grandfather) by Afghans, liberated Afghanistan from the tyranny of ‘Safavid’ dynasty in 1712 AD and laid down the foundation of a sovereign and independent Islamic state for Afghans.
Mullah Omar was wounded four times in Battles with the Russians, losing an eye, having a heart attack. Many family members were killed during the US led war in 2001, but nothing would stop him from defending the honor of Afghans.] When a convoy of Russian tanks was coming on the Kandahar Heart highway, he was with Mullah Bararder, they had only 4 RPG rounds, yet they attacked the convoy anyway and with only four rounds, they destroyed four Russian tanks. [God did not want the Russians to have Afghanistan].
Mullah Omar himself has had this to say:
“Allah is Almighty. Whether it is America or a tiny ant, it makes no difference for Him. America and her allies should listen carefully that the Islamic Emirate is not like one of the previous regimes whose Ameer (head) would flee the country; as it happened in the case of King Zahir Shah, the former monarch of Afghanistan, who sought asylum in Rome; nor will my soldiers (personnel) surrender to you. You should remember that these are well-organized Jihadi fronts. If the capital and other cities of the country fall in your hand and the Islamic government is ousted, instead of surrendering, our Mujahidin will spread to the countryside and go to the mountains. What will you do then? Inevitably, you will be caught and killed everywhere just like the Russians."
"You should realize that bringing chaos is very easy but its eradication and the restoration of law and order is a huge and strenuous task. Death is inevitable and all living creatures will have to die one day. "Instead of dying without faith and dignity while supporting the Americans, wouldn’t it be better to die with faith and dignity in the service of Islam?”
When described his biographers had this to say about him:
He considers determination, prudence and sincerity as the basis of all progress and the more prudent, sincere and decisive one is among his colleagues the more he is admired and loved by him.he remains tranquil and does not lose either temper or courage. During varying conditions of jubilation and jeopardy, triumph and failure, he remains serene and self-controlled. He deeply respects scholars and other elders. Gravity of manner, dignity, modesty, reverence, reciprocal respect, sympathy, mercy and sincerity are his natural traits. Strong determination, trusting in only One Allah the Almighty and a strong belief in what is ordained by Him are the distinguishing features of his life.
In 1996 AD, when he was conferred with the title of ‘Ameer-ul-Momineen’ (i.e. the head of the pious believers), instead of showing excitement or jubilation, he bitterly wept as his shoulder sheet was completely soaked with his tears. At the end of that historical meeting, he told the Ulama present:
“You are the inheritors of the Holy Prophet (peace be upon him) and you have thrown a heavy responsibility upon my shoulders. In reality, you will be held responsible for my steadfastness as well as deviation from it. O our teachers and respected scholars! If I could not discharge this huge responsibility of the Muslim masses in a proper way or deviate from it, you will have to guide me towards the right path in the light of your knowledge. If the Taliban do make mistakes in the implementation of Sharia and you do not guide them knowingly, you will have to bear the responsibility on the Day of Judgment.”
"Besides the natural silence of Mullah Mohammad Umar ‘Mujahid’, he is affable and has a special sense of humor as he never considers himself superior to his colleagues whatever their status might have been. He treats them cheerfully, cordially, compassionately and with reciprocal reverence."
My Remarks:
ISIS cannot have Afghanistan. Mullah Omar never blew anything up, not even those statues in Bamiyan, Osama did that. Although even in the Bible Christians and Jews were warned not to make stone idols or carve images into stone. Omar never wanted to go to any other country to take it over. So how is he a terrorist? He had nothing to do with 9/11 nor did he think that was appropriate as jihad. And the US never presented any evidence of Osama's guilt to Omar either, even though Omar requested it as a condition for them to turn Osama over. Why didn't the US present it if they had it?
The civil war that may now come is due to the US deciding it needed to intervene on who was placed in power over land that belongs to the Afghans. In a war between Isis and the Afghan talibs, who will the US support?
[Edited on 4/18/2015 by gina]
ISIS Originated from Iraqi Intelligence
That's right, the logistics for Isis began with a Colonel from the Iraqi Intelligence, who was even in US Custody at Abu Ghraib from 2006-2008. He reportedly got so angry while there, he began writing the guidelines for ISIS.
Documents uncovered in Syria reveal meticulous planning for the group’s structure and organisation, the report says, with the 31 pages of handwritten charts, lists and schedules amounting to a blueprint for the establishment of a caliphate in Syria.
The documents were the work of a man identified by the magazine as Samir Abd Muhammad al-Khlifawi, a former colonel in the intelligence service of Saddam Hussein’s air defence force, who went by the pseudonym Haji Bakr, Spiegel says.The files suggest that the takeover of northern Syria was part of a meticulous plan overseen by Haji Bakr using techniques – including surveillance, espionage, murder and kidnapping – honed in the security apparatus of Saddam Hussein.
“What Bakr put on paper, page by page, with carefully outlined boxes for individual responsibilities, was nothing less than a blueprint for a takeover,” the story by Spiegel reporter Christoph Reuter says. “It was not a manifesto of faith, but a technically precise plan for an ‘Islamic Intelligence State’ – a caliphate run by an organisation that resembled East Germany’s notorious Stasi domestic intelligence agency.”
In 2010, however, Bakr and a small group of former Iraqi intelligence officers made another former US detainee, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the official leader of Islamic State, with the goal of giving the group a “religious face”, the report says. Two years later, the magazine says, Bakr travelled to northern Syria to oversee his takeover plan, choosing to launch it with a collection of foreign fighters that included novice militants from Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Europe alongside battle-tested Chechens and Uzbeks.
REMARKS: Isis is Al Qaida with the skill of Iraqi intelligence. I read the accounts from the New York Times of prisoners who got out who described US torture techniques being used on prisoners that is when I knew it was NOT a group of just religious fighters wanting a caliphate. I think it is one of the most serious movements we shall see before the advent of the Islamic Mahdi's appearance, who will come from Iran and be a Shiite.
[Edited on 4/20/2015 by gina]
RE: FINANCIAL CHANGES WHICH CAN BE TERRIFYING
From Chinese News
http://www.hangzhou.com.cn/english/News/content/2015-04/17/content_5734884.htm
NEW YORK, April 16 (Xinhua) -- A completely new economic system, initiated by the BRICS, is emerging with extremely rapid speed, said an international think tank Thursday, urging the United States and Europe to ditch geopolitics and work with them.
"The BRICS nations, namely Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, have united to pursue a policy of economic development not just for their individual countries, but for the benefit of the people of all nations," said the Schiller Institute, a think tank with headquarters both in Germany and U.S., in a report released here at a seminar.
In blazing a trail to build the new world economic order, the nations of the BRICS are working toward real economic development, complete with new credit institutions and major high-technology projects to lift the well-being of all participating countries, the founder said. She also threw her weight behind a series of other initiatives proposed by China, including the Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and setting up of a Silk Road Development Fund. These initiatives are aimed at seeking mutually beneficial results and not geopolitical in nature, she said.
The think tank called on the United States and Europe to abandon the destructive policies of past which led to the two World Wars and join the win-win perspective presented by the BRICS. "It is a life and death question," the Larouche said.
Remarks: Abandon the destructive policies that led to two world wars. Uh-huh. Translation, join China and what they want to do, or things can escalate to something you don't want. They are "blazing a trail to build a NEW WORLD economic ORDER". I know what I want to do when the NEW WORLD ORDER decides to make a one world currency, one world govt. and hand it over to the anti-Christ, get off the grid, get outta dodge, live free and at peace.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2015-04/20/c_134164430.htm
Yeah like that.
Expanded news from Mohammad Javad Zarif is the foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
RE: ISIS, The Nuclear Issue between the US and Iran
REMARKS: Iran DOES NOT want to be at war with anyone, but the war may be coming anyway.
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/239416-us-sends-aircraft-carrier-to-yemeni-waters
Navy combat ships. The Saudi cooperating Gulf States are forming a blockade of the Iranian ships. What can the outcome of this be? More later.
[Edited on 4/21/2015 by gina]
4.21.15 Updates
LEBANON/SAUDI ARABIA/YEMEN AND IRAN/RUSSIA/CHINA
LEBANON
Saudi funded arms arrive in Lebanon
http://www.france24.com/en/20150420-lebanon-french-arms-saudi-funded/
The first shipment of French weapons and military equipment arrived in Lebanon on Monday under a Saudi-funded deal worth $3 billion to bolster the Lebanese army's fight against militants encroaching from neighbouring Syria. In the first shipment 48 Milan anti tank missiles.
YEMEN
The Saudi bombing coalition 'Decisive Storm" has ended in Yemen. With the US having sent it's warships for "maritime safety" the Saudis have backup in case anything happens.
http://www.france24.com/en/20150421-yemen-saudi-led-coalition-ends-operation/
REMARKS: My concerns go back to things that have happened over the last couple of years that you may have missed.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/1.546418
According to the Kommersant daily, Russia has also agreed to build additional nuclear reactor at Bushehr nuclear site; Israel staunchly opposed possible Russian sale of advanced S-300 missiles to Assad earlier this year. (That was from 9.11.13)
http://defenceradar.com/2014/08/25/russia-signals-nod-to-sale-of-s-400-anti-aircraft-missile-to-china/
Representative of Russia’s arms enterprise Almaz-Antey revealed that China may be the first foreign buyer of its S-400 anti-aircraft missile. Meanwhile, the Russian government has given its approval for the weapon’s export, reports our Chinese-language sister paper Want Daily. The missile has a range of 350-400km, a significant increase on the previous model S-300, with a range of a little over 100 km, said Du Wenlong, senior colonel and researcher at the PLA Academy of Military of Science.
Commentary: I think the Iranians can be trusted to honor the deal recently worked out I am concerned if an event happens which is an act of war, the battle lines are clearly drawn. Lebanon Iran, Russia and China are one block of united countries and the US is left only with Saudi Arabia as their real ally. The fact that Britain, France, Germany and other nations recently accepted China's trade and finance (infrastructure) deal shows that we are basically on our own. The wartime capabilities of other nations has increased to a point that any war would result in as they say mutually assured destruction. The only variables are the locations and extent of the damage.
The most important thing we can do is lead the way to non nuclear proliferation, allow other countries their sovereignty and ways of live without so much intervention. Be at peace with other nations.
[Edited on 4/22/2015 by gina]
Updates 4.23.14
ISIS, AFGHANISTAN, SAUDI ARABIA AND YEMEN
ISIS
Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, head of the Islamic State was reportedly seriously injured on 3/18 in Ninevah, enough that he cannot currently take care of the operational duties, while he is convalescing. Speaking to Newsweek, Dr Hisham al Hashimi, the Iraqi government adviser, confirmed that Abu Alaa Afri, the self-proclaimed caliph’s deputy and a former physics teacher, from Mosul, has now been installed as the stand-in leader of the terror group in Baghdadi’s absence. He is only temporarily covering for al Baghdadi. It is believed that Afri, when senior al-Qaeda operatives Abu Omar al-Baghdadi and Abu Ayyub al-Masri were killed in 2010, was Osama bin Laden’s preferred choice to become emir of al-Qaeda in Iraq, the group which eventually morphed into ISIS.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/isis-leader-abu-bakr-al-baghdadi-wounded-air-strike
http://www.newsweek.com/isis-replace-injured-leader-baghdadi-former-physics-teacher-324082
By the way, there was controversy when the Caliph of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi gave his khutbah (which is what a sermon is called in Islam) and some noticed his watch. I remember some reports saying 'it's a Rolex, he's part of the British Military Intelligence, there's the proof, those guys stay in fancy hotels in London and they all have Rolexes etc. etc.' well here's the info. on the watch, and no it is not a Rolex.
The Al-Fajr WA-10S Deluxe, which retails for the more modest $449 (£260) - or cheaper at online discount stores. For a man who has 1,000 high level and 1,000 lower level field commanders reporting to him, he should at least have a good watch.
The realities of life in Raqaa, a story involving the Morality Police.
https://iwpr.net/global-voices/raqqas-merciful-morality-squad
AFGHANISTAN
The recent bombing that occurred at the Kabul Bank in Jalalabad while workers were lined up to get their pay was a martyrdom operation conducted by a former member of Tehrik I Taliban, who splintered off into a faction pleding allegiance to the Islamic State. Hafiz Saeed Khan conducted a suicide operation at the bank, killing 35 people and injuring over 100. The other half of Tehrik I Taliban still honors their oath of allegiance to Mullah Omar.
Meanwhile the Afghan Taliban announced the onset of their spring offensive 'Azm" meaning "Determination" against occupying forces with the focus against main targets of these operations" will be "foreign occupiers, especially their permanent military bases...officials of the stooge regime, their military constellations, especially their intelligence, interior ministry, and defense ministry officials." As always they have said they will take great care not to involve civilians. They vow to not give up until all foreign forces leave Afghan soil.
http://www.rferl.org/content/afghanistan-taliban-offensive/26971361.html
SAUDI ARABIA AND YEMEN
Two days after stopping their bombing strikes KSA resumed bombing the Houthis in Sanaa. They stopped the previous strikes after putting 4 missiles into a milk factory. This time they say three military targets were targeted. Prince Al Waleed bin Talal Abdul Aziz al Saud is donating a Bentley to each of the ten Arabian pilots who were flying bombing missions. (the beautiful lady next to him is his wife, Princess Amira).
The US warships sent to the region are on a peacetime mission, to prevent anything from happening, and have backed off slightly, as have the Iranian ships there, which were stated to be there only to provide supplies to the people.
PAKISTAN AND YEMEN
Pakistan has killed 47 people in Waziristan with their drones in the last few days. Nawaz Sharif , Pakistani Foreign Minister, has went to London to meet with David Cameron, British Prime Minister. Sharif just completed a visit to Saudi to discuss the situation in Yemen. He will be in London for five days.
AFGHANISTAN
Isis has developed a training camp in Logar province, in their bid to take over Afghanistan.
http://www.khaama.com/isis-promotes-training-camp-in-logar-province-of-afghanistan-9403
Meanwhile, the US sent fighter jets to Kunduz in a major offensive there against native Afghan Taliban. If the US defeats the Afghan Taliban, what will they do with Isis who will fill in the vacuum?
http://www.khaama.com/us-military-sends-fighter-jets-to-kunduz-province-9406
An even bigger question looms. If the US defeats all the resistance groups in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Iraq, who will fight when the one world dictator with his one world army rises to take over the world? The one world leader will be the anti-Christ. No one seems to have considered this. As bad as any you think any of the resistance groups might be, life under the anti-Christ will be much worse. Why should YOU care, you who are safe here in the West, because guess what? In order for there to only be ONE world leader, govt., currency, army, ALL other nations have to fail. That's right the US military in this country would have to be taken down, as well as the govt., the currency system. There would have to be an end to sovereignty of all nations so that countries in desperation to survive have to ban together with other countries, pool their resources and alliances. No more super powers. Just a desecrated land with hungry, homeless, poor people so desperate to survive they will welcome whatever hand is extended to them. Remember the warnings in your Bible, "none will be able to buy or sell unless he has the mark of the beast on his hand or forehead". No more cash system, microchips to be able to get your pittance from the govt.
It will not happen overnight, it will happen slowly, event by event. That is what the end game is. You versus Satan. Will you give your allegiance to him and let him rule you?
UPDATE 5.15.15
AFGHANISTAN, IRAQ, PAKISTAN
AFGHANISTAN
We are now poised to remain in Afghanistan and not leave. According to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. Our "future presence will be led by civilians but have a military component", and a "light footprint".
http://middleeastpress.net/english/?p=12162
Remark: Well now you know why the Afghan Taliban keep fighting. They will not accept foreign soldiers on their soil, nor 'Aid Workers' which is politically correct speech for spies on their soil.
IRAQ
Abu Sayyaf was reportedly killed in an attack on the house he was in. The US then took his wife as a prisoner and are holding her in an Iraqi prison to glean whatever information they can from her.
PAKISTAN
As the anniversary of the so-called death of Osama came again this year, people still have a hard time with the events as they were disclosed to the public. One of these people is Seymour Hersh, He disputes parts of the raid. Mike Morrell from the CIA disputes Hersh's assertions as being incorrect. I think it is highly unlikely that ISIS was able to organize themselves without someone at the top being a highly skilled strategist directing them. Abu al Baghdadi's experience was only in Iraq, how could he be leading the organization all over in the other countries? Nope, somebody else is. Being that ISIS is the evolved group of Al Qaida in Iraq, seems to me IF Osama is still alive, HE would be the one running it. Just a theory.
These are the articles regarding Seymour Hersh's contentions about the raid in Abbottabad and Mike Morrell's response
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v37/n10/seymour-m-hersh/the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/seymour-hersh-bin-laden-death-london-review/2015/05/15/id/644859/
http://www.wsj.com/articles/separating-fact-from-seymour-hershs-fiction-about-bin-laden-1431714139
Mike Morrell's response to Hersh's theories.
Mr. Morell, a former deputy director of the CIA, is the author of “The Great War of Our Time: The CIA’s Fight Against Terrorism—From al Qa’ida to ISIS,” published this week by Twelve.
[Edited on 5/16/2015 by gina]
PATRIOT ACT RENEWAL/REVISIONS ET AL
Yesterday the Senate met to discuss a Transportation bill, which many felt would have added on NSA and Patriot Act renewals. Rand Paul started a filibuster near noon time and went till close to midnight with other Senators joining him to convey the importance of what the NSA has been doing, seeks to do, as well as the problems with the Patriot Act. The Patriot Act in it's original form is set to expire on June 1st. They take the vote this Saturday, on a holiday weekend when many Senators would likely be on vacation. Paul and others do not want to allow some of the unconstitutional provisions to go forward and become permanent.
The Patriot Act, passed in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, includes the Section 215 provision that the government has since used to justify warrantless collection of phone data.
The USA Freedom Act restricts that program but would authorize most of remaining portions of the Patriot Act and is supported by the vast majority of Democrats and a handful of Republicans. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and a group of other senators want a "clean" extension of the Patriot Act with no limitations.
The White House has not ruled an extension for the NSA bill.
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/242812-senate-scrambling-to-save-patriot-act
“Once the House leaves, we either take the House bill or end the whole Patriot Act,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), one of the authors of the USA Freedom Act. “The choices are very simple.”
McConnell has scheduled a vote for that bill on Saturday. If it fails — as he expects — the chamber will then vote on a two-month extension of current law, to give lawmakers time to work out their differences.
C Span carried the filibuster session, you can watch it if you missed it.
http://www.c-span.org/video/?326084-1/senator-rand-paul-rky-nsa-surveillanc e
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2015/may/20/rand-paul-senate-filibu ster-nsa-spying-patriot-act-live
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/242684-paul-begins-patriot-act -filibuster
"I will not let the Patriot Act, the most unpatriotic of acts, go unchallenged," Paul said. "The bulk collection of all Americans' phone records all of the time is a direct violation of the Fourth Amendment."
Paul, who began speaking at 1:18 p.m., and ended just before midnight suggested that the agency's phone records collection program could be the "tip of the iceberg" of the government's surveillance practices. He said Americans must "decide as a country whether we value our Bill of Rights … or if we are willing to give that up so we feel safer."
"Do we want to live in a world where the government knows everything about us?" he asked. "Do we want to live in a word where the government has us under constant surveillance?"
"We should be in open rebellion, saying, 'enough is enough, we're not going to take it anymore.'
Is it just co-incidence that the govt. plans to release more info. which they say was obtained from the raid at Abbottabad, Pakistan, in which , they say, Osama was killed? It is interesting that these are the books they found there, which they believe he read.
The full list of English language books
The 2030 Spike by Colin Mason
A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by IA Ibrahim
America's Strategic Blunders by Willard Matthias
America's "War on Terrorism" by Michel Chossudovsky
Al-Qaeda's Online Media Strategies: From Abu Reuter to Irhabi 007 by Hanna Rogan
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast
The Best Enemy Money Can Buy by Anthony Sutton
Black Box Voting, Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century by Bev Harris?Bloodlines of the Illuminati by Fritz Springmeier
Bounding the Global War on Terror by Jeffrey Record
Checking Iran's Nuclear Ambitions by Henry Sokolski and Patrick Clawson
Christianity and Islam in Spain 756-1031 A.D. by CR Haines?Civil Democratic Islam: Partners, Resources, and Strategies by Cheryl Benard
Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Committee of 300 by John Coleman
Crossing the Rubicon by Michael Ruppert
Fortifying Pakistan: The Role of U.S. Internal Security Assistance (only the book's introduction) by C Christine Fair and Peter Chalk
Guerrilla Air Defense: Antiaircraft Weapons and Techniques for Guerrilla Forces by James Crabtree
Handbook of International Law by Anthony Aust
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance by Noam Chomsky
Imperial Hubris by Michael Scheuer
In Pursuit of Allah's Pleasure by Asim Abdul Maajid, Esaam Ud-Deen and Naahah Ibrahim
Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions since World War II by William Blum
Military Intelligence Blunders by John Hughes-Wilson?Project
MKULTRA, the CIA's program of research in behavioral modification. Joint hearing before the Select Committee on Intelligence and the Subcommittee on Health and Scientific Research of the Committee on Human Resources, United States Senate, Ninety-fifth Congress, first session, August 3, 1977. United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Intelligence.
Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
New Political Religions, or Analysis of Modern Terrorism by Barry Cooper
Obama's Wars by Bob Woodward
Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townsend
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower by William Blum
The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Hall (1928)
Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins
The Taking of America 1-2-3 by Richard Sprague
Unfinished Business, U.S. Overseas Military Presence in the 21st Century by Michael O'Hanlon
The U.S. and Vietnam 1787-1941 by Robert Hopkins Miller
You didn't think he understands English? He learned it a boarding school he went to. He just refused to speak it with reporters. It gave him an edge. He could understand what they were saying to each other about him (like being in a foreign country when people talk behind your back, but you know what they are saying). As a proud Arab, he would not give up his heritage or language.
Bin Laden also owned books by famed Watergate scandal reporter Bob Woodward and US academic Noam Chomsky.
And his interest in conspiracy theories was not confined to 9/11 - there were also books on the kinds of powerful shadowy elites obsessed over by conspiracy theorists, including the "Illuminati" and "Committee of 300".
Among tomes on law and military strategy are books claiming the US was complicit in the 9/11 attacks. [Remember on 9/13/01 he said that he did not do the attack? But that interview with the Afghan Islamic Press was suppressed for many years. When asked who did do it, he said the US should look within it's own borders for whoever is dissenting against it. ]
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32816412
Remarks: Withheld for now. There are prophecies, but you could not handle them at this time. Could you handle it if you knew 30 million people would die in one day from a man made tsunami that takes out the east coast (seven states) a wall of water ten stories high that is created during a Tropical Storm/Hurricane watch? Oh yes there are more.
[Edited on 5/22/2015 by gina]
PATRIOT ACT AND NSA SPYING LEGISLATION UPDATE
A renewal of the Patriot Act was not passed, but it ain't over yet. Congress meets again Sunday May 31st in a rare emergency session. The so called USA Freedom Act does not stop spying, it only stops collection of mega data on massive amounts of people.
http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/243018-mcconnells-nsa-gambit-fails
Remarks: The old ways of doing things from before the days of internet worked just fine for police precints all over the country. If they had to go by the book, and actually have real evidence against someone people's right would be more protected. Actually have to take your evidence before a non crooked judge to get a court order to wiretap someone's phone, actually have to have a warrant to go in someone's home. The way it is now, it doesn't matter what legislation they pass, the evil do-ers just do what they want whenever they want to whoever they want. We have no rights in this country. None at all.
There will be a prophecy section coming shortly, have a lot to review but as I mentioned in another thread, but right now you should be aware that it is the annual Bilderberg meeting, where the power elite meet to decide what things will occur in the world in the near future. They do not allow reporters, they do not talk about what is discussed, they deny any evil doing planning etc. At the Interalpen Hotel near Innsbruck. Meetings are held June 11-14th.
Participants List
http://bilderbergmeetings.org/participants2015.html
Achleitner, Paul M. Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Deutsche Bank AG DEU
Agius, Marcus Non-Executive Chairman, PA Consulting Group GBR
Ahrenkiel, Thomas Director, Danish Intelligence Service (DDIS) DNK
Allen, John R. Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, US Department of State USA
Altman, Roger C. Executive Chairman, Evercore USA
Applebaum, Anne Director of Transitions Forum, Legatum Institute USA
Apunen, Matti Director, Finnish Business and Policy Forum EVA FIN
Baird, Zoë CEO and President, Markle Foundation USA
Balls, Edward M. Former Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer GBR
Balsemão, Francisco Pinto Chairman, Impresa SGPS PRT
Barroso, José M. Durão Former President of the European Commission PRT
Baverez, Nicolas Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP FRA
Benko, René Founder, SIGNA Holding GmbH AUT
Bernabè, Franco Chairman, FB Group SRL ITA
Beurden, Ben van CEO, Royal Dutch Shell plc NLD
Bigorgne, Laurent Director, Institut Montaigne FRA
Boone, Laurence Special Adviser on Financial and Economic Affairs to the President FRA
Botín, Ana P. Chairman, Banco Santander ESP
Brandtzæg, Svein Richard President and CEO, Norsk Hydro ASA NOR
Bronner, Oscar Publisher, Standard Verlagsgesellschaft AUT
Burns, William President, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA
Calvar, Patrick Director General, DGSI FRA
Castries, Henri de Chairman, Bilderberg Meetings; Chairman and CEO, AXA Group FRA
Cebrián, Juan Luis Executive Chairman, Grupo PRISA ESP
Clark, W. Edmund Retired Executive, TD Bank Group CAN
Coeuré, Benoît Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank INT
Coyne, Andrew Editor, Editorials and Comment, National Post CAN
Damberg, Mikael L. Minister for Enterprise and Innovation SWE
De Gucht, Karel Former EU Trade Commissioner, State Minister BEL
Donilon, Thomas E. Former U.S. National Security Advisor; Partner and Vice Chair, O'Melveny & Myers LLP USA
Döpfner, Mathias CEO, Axel Springer SE DEU
Dowling, Ann President, Royal Academy of Engineering GBR
Dugan, Regina Vice President for Engineering, Advanced Technology and Projects, Google USA
Eilertsen, Trine Political Editor, Aftenposten NOR
Eldrup, Merete CEO, TV 2 Danmark A/S DNK
Elkann, John Chairman and CEO, EXOR; Chairman, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles ITA
Enders, Thomas CEO, Airbus Group DEU
Erdoes, Mary CEO, JP Morgan Asset Management USA
Fairhead, Rona Chairman, BBC Trust GBR
Federspiel, Ulrik Executive Vice President, Haldor Topsøe A/S DNK
Feldstein, Martin S. President Emeritus, NBER; Professor of Economics, Harvard University USA
Fischer, Heinz Federal President AUT
Flint, Douglas J. Group Chairman, HSBC Holdings plc GBR
Franz, Christoph Chairman of the Board, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd CHE
Fresco, Louise O. President and Chairman Executive Board, Wageningen University and Research Centre NLD
Griffin, Kenneth Founder and CEO, Citadel Investment Group, LLC USA
Gruber, Lilli Executive Editor and Anchor “Otto e mezzo”, La7 TV ITA
Guriev, Sergei Professor of Economics, Sciences Po RUS
Gürkaynak, Gönenç Managing Partner, ELIG Law Firm TUR
Gusenbauer, Alfred Former Chancellor of the Republic of Austria AUT
Halberstadt, Victor Professor of Economics, Leiden University NLD
Hampel, Erich Chairman, UniCredit Bank Austria AG AUT
Hassabis, Demis Vice President of Engineering, Google DeepMind GBR
Hesoun, Wolfgang CEO, Siemens Austria AUT
Hildebrand, Philipp Vice Chairman, BlackRock Inc. CHE
Hoffman, Reid Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, LinkedIn USA
Ischinger, Wolfgang Chairman, Munich Security Conference INT
Jacobs, Kenneth M. Chairman and CEO, Lazard USA
Jäkel, Julia CEO, Gruner + Jahr DEU
Johnson, James A. Chairman, Johnson Capital Partners USA
Juppé, Alain Mayor of Bordeaux, Former Prime Minister FRA
Kaeser, Joe President and CEO, Siemens AG DEU
Karp, Alex CEO, Palantir Technologies USA
Kepel, Gilles University Professor, Sciences Po FRA
Kerr, John Deputy Chairman, Scottish Power GBR
Kesici, Ilhan MP, Turkish Parliament TUR
Kissinger, Henry A. Chairman, Kissinger Associates, Inc. USA
Kleinfeld, Klaus Chairman and CEO, Alcoa USA
Knot, Klaas H.W. President, De Nederlandsche Bank NLD
Koç, Mustafa V. Chairman, Koç Holding A.S. TUR
Kravis, Henry R. Co-Chairman and Co-CEO, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. USA
Kravis, Marie-Josée Senior Fellow and Vice Chair, Hudson Institute USA
Kudelski, André Chairman and CEO, Kudelski Group CHE
Lauk, Kurt President, Globe Capital Partners DEU
Lemne, Carola CEO, The Confederation of Swedish Enterprise SWE
Levey, Stuart Chief Legal Officer, HSBC Holdings plc USA
Leyen, Ursula von der Minister of Defence DEU
Leysen, Thomas Chairman of the Board of Directors, KBC Group BEL
Maher, Shiraz Senior Research Fellow, ICSR, King's College London GBR
Markus Lassen, Christina Head of Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Security Policy and Stabilisation DNK
Mathews, Jessica T. Distinguished Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA
Mattis, James Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University USA
Maudet, Pierre Vice-President of the State Council, Department of Security, Police and the Economy of Geneva CHE
McKay, David I. President and CEO, Royal Bank of Canada CAN
Mert, Nuray Columnist, Professor of Political Science, Istanbul University TUR
Messina, Jim CEO, The Messina Group USA
Michel, Charles Prime Minister BEL
Micklethwait, John Editor-in-Chief, Bloomberg LP USA
Minton Beddoes, Zanny Editor-in-Chief, The Economist GBR
Monti, Mario Senator-for-life; President, Bocconi University ITA
Mörttinen, Leena Executive Director, The Finnish Family Firms Association FIN
Mundie, Craig J. Principal, Mundie & Associates USA
Munroe-Blum, Heather Chairperson, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board CAN
Netherlands, H.R.H. Princess Beatrix of the NLD
O'Leary, Michael CEO, Ryanair Plc IRL
Osborne, George First Secretary of State and Chancellor of the Exchequer GBR
Özel, Soli Columnist, Haberturk Newspaper; Senior Lecturer, Kadir Has University TUR
Papalexopoulos, Dimitri Group CEO, Titan Cement Co. GRC
Pégard, Catherine President, Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles FRA
Perle, Richard N. Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute USA
Petraeus, David H. Chairman, KKR Global Institute USA
Pikrammenos, Panagiotis Honorary President of The Hellenic Council of State GRC
Reisman, Heather M. Chair and CEO, Indigo Books & Music Inc. CAN
Rocca, Gianfelice Chairman, Techint Group ITA
Roiss, Gerhard CEO, OMV Austria AUT
Rubin, Robert E. Co Chair, Council on Foreign Relations; Former Secretary of the Treasury USA
Rutte, Mark Prime Minister NLD
Sadjadpour, Karim Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace USA
Sawers, John Chairman and Partner, Macro Advisory Partners GBR
Sayek Böke, Selin Vice President, Republican People’s Party TUR
Schmidt, Eric E. Executive Chairman, Google Inc. USA
Scholten, Rudolf CEO, Oesterreichische Kontrollbank AG AUT
Senard, Jean-Dominique CEO, Michelin Group FRA
Sevelda, Karl CEO, Raiffeisen Bank International AG AUT
Stoltenberg, Jens Secretary General, NATO INT
Stubb, Alexander Ministers of Finance FIN
Suder, Katrin Deputy Minister of Defense DEU
Sutherland, Peter D. UN Special Representative; Chairman, Goldman Sachs International IRL
Svanberg, Carl-Henric Chairman, BP plc; Chairman, AB Volvo SWE
Svarva, Olaug CEO, The Government Pension Fund Norway NOR
Thiel, Peter A. President, Thiel Capital USA
Tsoukalis, Loukas President, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy GRC
Üzümcü, Ahmet Director-General, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons INT
Vitorino, António M. Partner, Cuetrecasas, Concalves Pereira, RL PRT
Wallenberg, Jacob Chairman, Investor AB SWE
Weber, Vin Partner, Mercury LLC USA
Wolf, Martin H. Chief Economics Commentator, The Financial Times GBR
Wolfensohn, James D. Chairman and CEO, Wolfensohn and Company USA
Zoellick, Robert B. Chairman, Board of International Advisors, The Goldman Sachs Group USA
I could make remarks about some of the people and organizations but you can and should do your own research. (just note that heads of banks and financial institutions, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Executive Board of European Central Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, are there. Jim Messina is Hillary's advisor for her 2016 campaign. David Petraeus made the big leagues now. Richard Perle was one of those who wrote Operation Clean Break with the others the plan to destabilize the Middle East with Washington lawmakers. The Google people are there to push their microchip).
Former DARPA director and now Google executive Regina Dugan is pushing an edible "authentication microchip" along with an electronic tattoo that can read you...
Bilderberg2015 Will You Swallow Google's Edible Microchip?
via @PrisonPlanet
#Bilderberg2015 in Austria this week: South stream gas pipeline or nuclear war with Russia? Martin Summers' briefing
http://bilderbergmeetings.org/meeting_2015.html
The key topics for discussion this year include:
Artificial Intelligence
Cybersecurity
Chemical Weapons Threats
Current Economic Issues
European Strategy
Globalisation
Greece
Iran
Middle East
NATO
Russia
Terrorism
United Kingdom
USA
US Elections
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Bilderberg2015?src ="hash"
[Edited on 6/14/2015 by gina]
I'm not going to harp on it, because links went up in another thread. I will just re-iterate what is going on. The military exercise called Jade Helm 15 begins July 15 and lasts till September 15, 2015. It is designed to help military personnel respond to rapid crises within our borders. I believe the biggest part of this crisis can be the failure of large banks. Which banks? Analysts think these because the ratio of assets to derivatives that they hold is very unbalanced. (meaning they hold paper without assets to back them up. Ie. Bank of America had 2.2 trillion in assets in 2013 and 44 trillion in derivatives. The others have billions in assets and trillions in derivatives.
Deutsche Bank
Goldman Sachs
Wells Fargo
JP Morgan Chase
Citigroup
Bank of America
If they fail, people could have significant losses, riots could occur etc. That is just one scenario for the military exercises to address. There could be other emergencies, earthquakes, hurricanes, nuclear missiles from other countries etc.
The way you will know if your bank is going to fail, 72 hrs before hand there will be a message that the banking system has a virus so all electronic and other transactions cannot be performed, in effect it is being shut down to protect it. IF you hear that, get what you can and get ready.
Yes there are other things.
US TROOP DEPLOYMENT AND BUILD UP IN EUROPE
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/us-poised-to-put-heavy-weaponry-in-east-europe/ar-BBl6eku
RIGA, Latvia — In a significant move to deter possible Russian aggression in Europe, the Pentagon is poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy weapons for as many as 5,000 American troops in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, American and allied officials say.
“We need the prepositioned equipment because if something happens, we’ll need additional armaments, equipment and ammunition,” Raimonds Vejonis, Latvia’s minister of defense, said in an interview at his office here last week.
“If something happens, we can’t wait days or weeks for more equipment,” said Mr. Vejonis, who will become Latvia’s president in July. “We need to react immediately.”
In an interview before a visit to Italy this week, Mr. Putin dismissed fears of any Russian attack on NATO.
“I think that only an insane person and only in a dream can imagine that Russia would suddenly attack NATO,” he told the newspaper Corriere Della Sera. “I think some countries are simply taking advantage of people’s fears with regard to Russia. They just want to play the role of front-line countries that should receive some supplementary military, economic, financial or some other aid.”
Comment: Russia is not chomping on the bit to engage in war, but privately if you hear what certain people think, this is from 2013:
A Russian geopolitical analyst says the best way to attack the United States is to detonate nuclear weapons to trigger a supervolcano at Yellowstone National Park or along the San Andreas fault line on California's coast. The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow, Konstantin Sivkov said in an article for a Russian trade newspaper on Wednesday, VPK News, that Russia needed to increase its military weapons and strategies against the "West" which was "moving to the borders or Russia".
He has a conspiracy theory that NATO - a political and military alliance which counts the US, UK, Canada and many countries in western Europe as members - was amassing strength against Russia and the only way to combat that problem was to attack America's vulnerabilities to ensure a "complete destruction of the enemy".
Conspiracy theory: The president of the Academy of Geopolitical Problems based in Moscow, Konstantin Sivkov.
"Geologists believe that the Yellowstone supervolcano could explode at any moment. There are signs of growing activity there. Therefore it suffices to push the relatively small, for example the impact of the munition megaton class to initiate an eruption. The consequences will be catastrophic for the United States - a country just disappears," he said.
"Another vulnerable area of the United States from the geophysical point of view, is the San Andreas fault - 1300 kilometers between the Pacific and North American plates ... a detonation of a nuclear weapon there can trigger catastrophic events like a coast-scale tsunami which can completely destroy the infrastructure of the United States."
He said the Russian geography on the other hand would protect it from a tsunami or a volcano attack. Few people live on the coast in Russia and Siberia which rests on basalt would withstand similar attacks.
REMARKS: If we are stupid enough to attack Russia, the cost will be very high to us. Some have said Russia has 22,000 nuclear warheads, they have underground bunkers for their government, just as we do. (this is why you have to pay attention to what is going on in the world).
ADDITIONAL to Jade Helm exercises.
As you know now, the Jade Helm nationwide military exercises will begin July 15 and run thru September 15. They are stated to be preparedness drills for any big disasters/catastrophes that happen on American soil; which could be
LAND DISASTERS (includes hurricanes, earthquakes, asteroids, epidemics),
FINANCIAL DISASTERS- banks going bust, dollar going down as the world's reserve currency.
TERROR DISASTERS- Border invasion from people coming thru Mexico (though they would probably not be Mexicans) who have planned and implement bombing attacks anyplace.
Well now there is something worse than ALL of those potential hazards. The potential of Russia attacking the US with EMP weapons. EMP means Electro Magnetic Pulse weapon. What they would do is take down the national power grid, putting us back to the 1900's function wise. The rest of the world would have what we all have today, but us, we would not have electricity, no telecommunications, no satellites, no planes, no advanced weaponry.
Syria under Assad's regime provided oil to Russia. With the war there now, they are not doing that. Since the US sponsored ousting of Assad and the Isis situation, Russia's Ruble (their currency) has lost considerable value, the longer this war goes on, the worse it is for them. The only way for them to salvage their currency is to stop US aggression on Syrian oil, sanctions on Iran, etc. EITHER WE GET OUT OF THE MIDDLE EAST, OR RUSSIA HAS TO TAKE US DOWN TO SAVE THEIR OWN ECONOMY.
IF the national grid goes down 140 Million people will be in the dark for YEARS. Riots? Revolution? What do you think? (what I saw were Biblical references from a theologian who studied ancient scriptures for 17 years with the interpretation of the US being the Babylon referred to in the Biblical passages that refers to a great war. The original Babylon was a town in Iraq). Ezekiel plainly describes the third world war and identifies the countries involved.
When could this happen? One analyst said BEFORE January 2017 due to the financial problems Russia is having due to our foreign policies with oil rich nations over there.
What should you do? He recommended we need to learn what the Amish know. They grow, store and have food without electricity etc. Learn how to do THE THINGS they do, the WAY they do. Then, get your butt off the grid, escape riots, looting, martial law. Learn how to survive without dependence on the modern day conveniences you are not accustomed to.
Rabbi Cahn from the Harbinger studied religious history and says the next financial crisis occurs September 13, THIS YEAR. The Jade Helm military exercises end September 15, THIS YEAR. Coincidence? The four countries that will go down first in the financial collapse are reportedly Portugal, Italy, Greece and Spain. Greece is in default June 30th and is already asking the International Monetary Fund for mercy.
[Edited on 6/21/2015 by gina]
[Edited on 6/21/2015 by gina]
9.11.01 Newly released information
http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-911-cia-344693?ref=yfp
Mark Rossini former FBI agent maintains that 9/11 would not have happened if the CIA heeded warnings they provided. He maintains " “They ran a clandestine op in the U.S., and they didn’t want the bureau involved in it.”
"Rossini, a former FBI special agent at the center of an enduring mystery related to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, says he is “appalled” by the newly declassified statements by former CIA Director George Tenet defending the spy agency’s efforts to detect and stop the plot.
Rossini, who was assigned to the CIA’s Counterterrorism Center (CTC) at the time of the attacks, has long maintained that the U.S. government has covered up secret relations between the spy agency and Saudi individuals who may have abetted the plot. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers who flew commercial airliners into the World Trade Center towers, the Pentagon, and a failed effort to crash into the U.S. Capitol, were Saudis.
A heavily redacted 2005 CIA inspector general’s report, parts of which had previously been released, was further declassified earlier this month. It found that agency investigators "encountered no evidence" that the government of Saudi Arabia "knowingly and willingly supported" Al-Qaeda terrorists. It added that some CIA officers had “speculated” that “dissident sympathizers within the government” may have supported Osama bin Laden but that “the reporting was too sparse to determine with any accuracy such support.”
Over 30 pages relating to Saudi Arabia in the report were blacked out. The Obama administration has also refused to declassify 28 pages dealing with Saudi connections to the hijackers in a joint congressional probe of the attacks.
As has been previously reported, Rossini and another FBI agent assigned to the CTC, Doug Miller, learned in January 2000 that one of the future hijackers, an Al-Qaeda operative by the name of Khalid al-Mihdhar, had a multi-entry visa to enter the U.S. By mid-summer of 2001, the CIA was repeatedly warning President George W. Bush and other White House officials that an Al-Qaeda attack was imminent. But when Miller and Rossini attempted to warn FBI headquarters that al-Mihdhar could be loose in the U.S., a CIA supervisor ordered them to remain silent.
Rossini says he is “deeply concerned” by how the agency continues to suppress information related to contacts between the CIA and Saudi Arabia, particularly when the spy agency is declassifying other portions of documents to show that it did everything possible to thwart the September 11, 2001 plot.
“There would have not been a 9/11 if Doug's CIR [Central Intelligence Report] on al-Mihdhar was sent,” he told Newsweek in an email. “Period. End of story.
“The total lack of accountability, nor a desire to drill down on the truth as to why Doug's memo was not sent,” he added, “is the reason why the 28 pages pertaining to the Saudis have been blocked” from release.
In 2005, Tenet, the CIA director at the time of the attacks, angrily refuted the judgment of then-CIA Inspector General John Helgerson who said Tenet did not do enough to stop the Al-Qaeda plot.
"Your report challenges my professionalism, diligence and skill in leading the men and women of U.S. intelligence in countering terrorism," Tenet wrote to Helgerson in another heavily redacted document released June 12. "I did everything I could to inform, warn and motivate action to prevent harm. Your report does not fairly or accurately portray my actions, or the heroic work of the men and women of the Intelligence Community."
Rossini claims still-classified documents would “show a pattern of financial assistance, and moreover, the CIA's role to try and recruit al-Mihdhar.” He says he was “convinced” of that and that “there is no other explanation" for the CIA refusing to release further information.
A former CIA field operative who worked at the CTC in 2001 told Newsweek earlier this year that Rossini’s theory had merit. “I find that kind of hard to believe, that [al-Mihdhar] would be a valid source,” says the former operative, who spent 25 years handling spies in some of the world’s most dangerous places, including the Middle East. “But then again, the folks that were making a lot of calls at the time there were junior analysts, who had zero general experience and absolutely zero on-the-ground operational experience or any kind of operational training.”
The analysts had begun to take intelligence collection initiatives beyond their skill level, usually by developing their own confidential “sources” in Middle East spy services, says the former operative, who spoke on condition of anonymity to freely discuss such a sensitive issue. So it is entirely reasonable, the former operative says, that an intelligence analyst at the CTC was trying to develop al-Mihdhar as a source through Saudi contacts.
“I don’t think they ever personally talked to anybody” in the field, the former operative added. “They probably got a source through liaison. So their source [on the hijackers] might have been someone in the Saudi service who said they are talking to somebody, or someone in the Jordanian service who said he was talking to someone. As far I was concerned, they were a bunch of lying pieces of shit. So they could’ve done that.”
Rossini and his colleague, Miller, following the CTC’s strict rules on secrecy, kept silent for years about their thwarted effort to warn FBI headquarters about al-Mihdhar, providing critics with ammunition to cast doubt on their story. But in a Newsweek interview, a former FBI colleague has now come forward publicly for the first time to buttress their version of events.
James Bernazzani, who took charge of the FBI contingent at the CTC in Langley, Virginia, soon after 9/11 attacks, recalled an encounter with Rossini. “Mark walks into my office one day at Langley and says, ‘Something's been really bothering me.’ He tells me the whole story" about how he and Miller had been prohibited from telling anyone about the likely presence of at least one Al-Qaeda terrorist, al-Mihdhar, in the U.S. the previous July, Bernazzani says.
“I said, Mark, if it ain't on paper, it never happened. He said, ‘I got it.’ After a few minutes he came back and showed it to me.” Miller, as it turned out, had made a copy of the warning cable he had prepared for FBI headquarters.
“I looked at it and I said, ‘Holy friggin’ shit,’” Bernazzani recalls. “I said, ‘This would've stopped this thing.’ I called up Assistant Director Pat D’Amuro,” who was in charge of the FBI’s investigation into the 9/11 attacks. “I said I needed to see him right away. He said, ‘This better be worth it.’ I assured him it was. I drove straight to FBI headquarters. It took me only about 15 minutes to get there. I probably set some speed records.”
Bernazzani, who retired in 2008 with a Presidential Award for Meritorious Service, says D’Amuro “looks at it, he looks at me, and he says, ‘I’ll take care of it.’”
Bernazzani returned to CIA headquarters. “I told Mark it was done, it was in the right hands,” Bernazzani says. Later, when congressional investigators came looking for documents related to the 9/11 attacks, “the FBI couldn't find it in their computers,” he says. “If they did, they didn't tell me.”
D’Amuro, now managing director of 930 Capital Management in New York, did not immediately respond to request for comment.
All these years later, “What Mark said is true,” Bernazzani says. “It did happen” as Rossini told it.
As for why CIA analysts at the CTC ordered Rossini and Miller not to tell the FBI about Al-Qaeda terrorists at large in the U.S., Bernazzani can only theorize. "It was a classic example of analysts owning information,” he says. “Operators share information. Some analysts tended to think of information as none of your business.”
Rossini is more blunt. “They ran a clandestine op in the U.S., and they didn’t want the bureau involved in it.”
ISIS
Abu al Baghdadi has announced the discontinuance of the complete execution videos the group has become known for because it could scare children. They will only be allowed to show the initial cutting of the throat and placement of the head upon the body after it has been severed from the body.
BRITAIN TO SEND SPY PLANES TO GET LOCATIONS FOR OTHER COUNTRIES TO LAUNCH ATTACKS ON ISIS IN SYRIA. They will send Rivet spy planes and then send that info to British planes in Iraq or US coalition planes in Syria to bomb Isis locations in Syria.
ISIS CONTINUES RECRUITMENT - Shopping malls with stuff fighters want if they join Isis, they will get paid a monthly wage that can be used to buy what they want, including candy.
REMARKS: When the Afghan talibs recruited, those who joined them were given shelter, weapons, and they were fed along with the other fighters. They were not paid in money. Some of the fighters even shared their shoes, when one would be out fighting the other would be back in a house sleeping, when his shift was over, he would come back and the other fighter would get up and go out to continue defending his land. The locals would open their homes to them, feed them, tuck them in with blankets and let them rest. The places they stayed in were functional. If it was one of their own houses they would have a bed and an ammo box at the foot of their bed. It's different with Isis. They don't want to stay on the battlefield. They want to take over towns, they don't want to live in caves. The wars have certainly changed.
[Edited on 7/19/2015 by gina]
IRAN, ISIS, IRAQ
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi volunteer forces announced on Sunday that they have shot down a drone that was spying on the Arab country's security forces in the city of Fallujah, Western Iraq.
Iraq's popular forces reported that they have brought down a hostile surveillance aircraft over the Southeastern Fallujah in Anbar Province. They said that the wreckage of the ISIL's spy drone carried 'Israel-Made' labels. No further detail has yet been released on the incident.
This was not the first Israeli-made drone downed in Iraq.
In August an Israeli Hermes drone was shot down in the vicinity of Baghdad Airport, the second such loss in less than three days after another Israeli pilotless drone of the same model was shot down by Iranian troops in the Central parts of the country.
The Arabic-language Al-Mayadeen TV channel reported that an Israeli drone crashed near Baghdad Airport, adding that the unmanned aircraft was a Hermes Model. FNA correspondent in Baghdad reported that the US embassy security staff rushed to the crash site and collected the debris and the remains of the downed Israeli drone.
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx?nn=13940428000448
REMARKS: Why and HOW does ISIS have Israeli made drones? One US military official who does not want to be named said:
" Iran's forces or its technology and weapons systems are present in several countries across the region, and the repeated downing of the same model of drones became meaningful to Israeli army analysts."
From the news article:
"Following the IDF decision, all Hermes missions will be halted in skies over Iran, Iraq, Syria, Palestinian territories and Lebanon," he told FNA in August. A few days earlier in August, Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement that it had shot down a similar Israeli drone near the highly sensitive nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz in Central Iran.
REMARKS: So, the military official believes Iran is supplying Isis, but the same type of Israeli drones were shot down over Iran by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard. Looks like Israel is spying on Iran. But how ISIS got one of their drones intact to use for spying missions does not seem to be known. Who is supplying ISIS? Iran is a Shiite nation, Isis is a Sunni group, it is not likely they are joining forces.
[Edited on 7/20/2015 by gina]
ISRAEL and the IRANIAN DEAL
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2015/07/19/
By Staff writer | Al Arabiya News
Sunday, 19 July 2015
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly warned against world powers reaching a nuclear deal with arch-nemesis Iran. But after the deal was struck last week, it appears the world hasn’t been listening.
Now, the premier is trying a new approach, reportedly threatening to “kill himself” over the upcoming vote in the U.S. Congress on whether to accept the deal.
According to Haaretz newspaper, citing his spokespeople, Netanyahu made the threat in an attempt to leverage Israeli security, which he believes is threatened by Iran’s nuclear accord.
“Netanyahu’s spokespeople said he plans to ‘kill himself’ pursuing the last remaining option for scuttling the deal – preventing its ratification by the U.S. House of Representatives – by persuading Democratic congressmen to defect to the Republican camp and vote against their president,” Haaretz’s Yossi Verter reported earlier this week.
REMARKS: Someone needs to verify this with Netanyahu.
7.30.15
Many of you probably wondered why I did not start commentary on the reported death of Mullah Omar. I did not believe the reports. I still do not believe them. I am aware of the power struggles in Afghanistan among many of the groups, there is a real divide in Pakistan that started when members of the Pakistani Taliban under Baitullah Mehsud's leadership were killed, arrested and disappearing from public view, leaving factionalism and uncertainties.
ISIS wants the incursion into Afghanistan. Mullah Omar would forbid that. His differences with that group are not something that can be reconciled because they are not moot points He disagrees with suicide bombings, he forbids children on the battlefield doing armed jihad. That's not negotiable. Isis has went beyond their own borders of Iraq and Syria, Mullah Omar will not fight in other countries and holds the sovereignty of Afghan soil as his only battleground. Other commanders think, look if we can take the whole thing and get to Jersuasalem let's go, let's do this and unite and reclaim it for Islam.
Now onto other developments.
RUSSIA/IRAN
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/30/422595/Russia-S300-delivery-Iran-upgrade
A high-ranking Russian official says Moscow is working to upgrade the S-300 surface-to-air missile defense system it plans to deliver to Iran. The contract for the deal was done before the sanctions, so they are honoring it because the sanctions have recently been lifted.
Last month, Yan Novikov, the chief executive of Russian state arms producer, Almaz-Antey, confirmed the removal of all restrictions on S-300 deliveries to Tehran. On April 13, Putin signed a presidential decree paving the way for the long-overdue delivery of the missile defense system to Iran.
The decision to deliver the missile system came after Iran and the P5+1 group of countries - the United States, France, Britain, China and Russia plus Germany - reached a mutual understanding on Tehran’s nuclear program in the Swiss city of Lausanne on April 2.
GULF PEACE/SECURITY TALKS
Meanwhile Kerry goes back to the Gulf to talk to them about security issues.
http://www.arabnews.com/featured/news/783876
As posted under the other thread, the Leadership Council of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan confirms Mullah Mohammad Omar's passing and the appointment of a new Emir. No One will ever be called Al Mumineen of the Emirate again. That was Mullah Omar's designation only.
RE: The appointment of a new Amir for the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Our Muslim Brothers!
As you know that the founder and leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, His Excellency Amir-ul-Momineen Mullah Mohammad Umar Mujahid (may mercy be upon him) has passed away from this world due to the illness he was suffering from.
After his passing away, the leading council of the Islamic Emirate, authentic scholars and venerable people of the country embarked on selecting the new leadership. Members of the leading council of the Islamic Emirate, saints and scholars, all of them discerning and influential people, in the wake of a prolonged discussion, decided in a meeting to appoint the intimate and trusted associate of Mullah Mohammad Umar Mujahid and the former deputy head of the Islamic Emirate, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, as the new leader of the Islamic Emirate.
Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor, who was considered a reliable and suitable person for shouldering heavy tasks even in the lifetime of late Mullah Mohammad Umar Mujahid (may mercy be upon him) and had been administrating the Islamic Emirate since long therefore, the leading council of the Islamic Emirate and authentic scholars judged him a suitable and talented personality for the leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and appointed him as their legalized leader.
In this meeting of leadership appointment, scholars, saints and dignitaries of the Islamic Emirate pledged their allegiance with Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor as Amir-ul-Momineen in accordance with the principal of listening and obedience. He, as a legal Amir, pledged his commitment to the Sharia Law too.
Similarly, after due consultation and approval in this meeting, each one, the former judiciary chief of the Islamic Emirate, religious scholar, Moulavi Haibatullah Akhunzada and the son of the renowned Jihadi and scholarly figure Moulavi Jalauddin Haqqani (may Allah safeguard him), a well-known Jihadi commander Mullah Sirajuddin Haqqani, as the deputy heads of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan.
The leading council of the Islamic Emirate pray to Almighty Allah to bestow this new newly appointed leadership with steadfastness, honesty and allegiance to the Divine Sharia and invites the Muslim Nation, particularly, all Mujahidin of the Islamic Emirate, to obey him as their legal Amir (head)."
The other message is from the family to the fellow countrymen in Afghanistan.
"And no person can ever die except by Allah’s Leave and at an appointed term. And whoever desires a reward in (this) world, We shall give him of it; and whoever desires a reward in the Hereafter, We shall give him thereof. And We shall reward the grateful. 146. And many a Prophet (i.e. many from amongst the Prophets) fought (in Allah’s Cause) and along with him (fought) large bands of religious learned men. But they never lost heart for that which did befall them in Allah’s Way, nor did they weaken nor degrade themselves. And Allah loves As-Sabirin (the patient ones, etc.). 147. And they said nothing but: “Our Lord! Forgive us our sins and our transgressions (in keeping our duties to You), establish our feet firmly, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk.” (Surah Al-Imran)
Death is certain. It is part of our faith that except for the Almighty Allah all living beings will taste death. Even the most beloved being to Allah Almighty, the leader of both Universes, the Prophet Muhammad Peace be Upon Him, tasted the bitterness of death and passed away from this World.
In light of this reality the Leadership of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and the family of Amir ul Mumineen Mulla Muhammad Omar Mujahid May Allah have mercy on him announce that the founder and leader of Islamic Emirate, as a result of an illness, handed his spirit over to the taker of souls and passed away from this temporary world towards the everlasting one, surely to Allah we belong and to Him we must return And May Allah SWT have boundless mercy on him.
Mulla Muhammad Omar Mujahid May Allah have mercy on him was an esteemed and sincere leader of the Islamic Ummah, who raised the fallen flag of Islam under the most difficult of circumstances. Under the name of Islamic Emirate, he founded a complete government within the framework of Islamic politics and in full compliance with the laws of Islam. Through him, Allah Almighty graced not only Afghanistan but the entire Ummah with an Islamic government and portrayed to the world the true meaning of Islamic sovereignty.
These few lines might not be sufficient to testify to his achievements, so therefore we turn to the issue at hand, which is that the esteemed Amir ul Mumineen May Allah have mercy on him has passed away from this world. Under these circumstances it is our duty to steer this Islamic Emirate, left behind to us as a trust, in the same direction as he had done. To remain as committed to Shariah as he had done. To remain as sincere and steadfast as he had done. To be as ready to sacrifice it all for the right path, to keep promises, trusting in Allah, patient, steadfast, and fearful of Allah as he had been so that Allah Almighty similarly helps us sustain this heavy burden and reach our destination as well as enables us to hold our heads high both in this world and hereafter.
The deceased Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid may Allah have mercy on him who, despite the military might and intelligence tracking of America and all her allies, continued to live in Afghanistan and in the previous fourteen years never for a single day did he leave Afghanistan to visit Pakistan or another country. From his place he led the affairs of Islamic Emirate and there are ample proofs and witnesses to testify to his historic perseverance. Some time ago he became ill which intensified in the last two weeks before he passed away from this world.
While the esteemed Amir ul Mumineen May Allah have mercy on him was bodily a single person yet he encapsulated an entire movement, a philosophy, and the bearer of an ideal. If anyone wants to please his soul and show proof of their loyalty to him, then they should show loyalty to his inheritance which is the Islamic Emirate. Under the present circumstances, it is our individual duty as Muslims to work towards establishing an Islamic system by assisting, unifying, expanding and ultimately enabling the success of the Islamic Emirate. The foundations of this joint home must be solidified and the strengthening of our ranks is the only way to ensure we achieve the objectives of our people and the Mujahideen.
The deceased Amir ul Mumineen May Allah have mercy on him founded and strengthened this movement in such a way that it is based upon strong foundations, sincere and prudent colleagues, and supported by solid formations. Therefore the Mujahideen and all Muslims should be rest assured that, with the help of Allah Almighty, the leaders and members of Islamic Emirate will steer this caravan with the help of Allah and backing of Muslims towards its destination which was the deceased Amir ul Mumineen’s lasting wish, and nothing is hard for Allah.
The leadership of the Islamic Emirate, the Leadership Council, and the family of the deceased Amir ul Mumineen have agreed that for the following three days (from 14th Shawwal 1436) in all the lands, scholars, clerics, national and Jihadi figures – on behalf of the leaders of the Islamic Emirate, Mujahideen and all the nation – should pray for the soul of the deceased Amir ul Mumineen and offer Quranic recitations, prayers and condolences and pray for the forgiveness of the deceased and the steadfastness and success of the Islamic Emirate.
Finally we would like to recall that Mullah Muhammad Omar’s maternal brother – Mullah Abdul Manan Akhund – and his eldest son – Maulawi Muhammad Yaqoob – specifically ask all Muslims that if during the rule of the Islamic Emirate, under the leadership of the deceased Mullah Muhammad Omar, they were deprived of any rights then they should forgive him and always remember him in their prayers. We consider the entire Muslim Ummah, and especially the Mujahid nation of Afghanistan as our partners in this great calamity and ask Allah Almighty to give us all patience and consolation."
Leadership Council of Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and family of the esteemed Mullah Muhammad Omar Mujahid
My Closing Remarks: Mullah Mansoor will make his own statement in the next few days. To die during Ramadan is a great honor for a Muslim and to die during the last week of Islam when the Night of Power occurs is the most befitting way Mullah Omar could go, being admitted to paradise then. Omar was a messenger and Mentor of Islam. He did not give up his struggle or lose his faith even in the face of personal loss. He continued fighting for the sovereignty of his homeland. While it is the end of an era under Mullah Omar's leadership, the legacy of the Islamic Emirate continues and evolves as does the great land of Afghanistan, and it's people.
[Edited on 8/2/2015 by gina]
AFGHANISTAN
Yes today's update is about Afghanistan. The safety and security of that country is pivotal to world security. There must be peace, but the world at large needs to recognize the Taliban (and that word means student of knowledge of Islam and Islamic law) have always lived in at least 13-17 provinces out of 33. These are rural areas. They were not bothering any other country when the US campaign in 2001 began. It is currently facing destabilization not even by the US but by it's own government, who is provoking them denying them the right to even assemble in funerals for their slain comrades. In addition, Pakistani tribal groups have sworn allegiance to the Islamic State and would like to help the Afghan Taliban defeat Ghani's regime, then they can establish a caliphate nationwide in Afghanistan and once that is done, then they can all work on taking Pakistan.
The US and foreign investors want to be involved in the management of resources in both these countries. The oil in the Caspian Sea, the minerals in Afghanistan, the oil in Balochistan. Ghani is in favor of and has signed contracts to work with the US in these endeavors. They just call it reconstruction development, enhancing energy resources etc.
"Afghan Minister of Finance Hakimi, the U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan P. Michael McKinley, and the USAID Mission Director William Hammink signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the New Development Partnership on August 3, 2015".
In return the US provides 800 million US dollars.
Sooo, there is a vested interest in the Taliban not returning to power. Ashraf Ghani has even signed legislation that Taliban grieving at funerals are legitamite targets for assassination.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1198162/afghanistan-says-gatherings-mourning-mullah-omar-legitimate-target
KABUL: Afghanistan's spy agency on Monday banned all mourning ceremonies for deceased Taliban leader Mullah Omar, warning that any gatherings condoling his death would be a “legitimate target” for Afghan forces. They were prevented from mourning in Ghazni, one of their strongholds.
Add onto that inaccurate reports coming from Afghanistan's first deputy speaker of the Wolesi Jirga (Lower House of Parliament) Zahir Qadir which recently said that Mullah Omar's son, Yaqoob was killed last Thursday. HE WASN'T. Taliban sources REFUTED that to the press. Yaqoob even gave a press release to the Associated Press on Sunday, so it is clear he did not die on Thursday.
http://www.rferl.org/content/article/27165811.html
http://www.rferl.org/content/taliban-mansur-omar-leadership-split/27163312.html
Everyone speculates can the Taliban survive Omar's passing. The answer is they have to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8583018.stm
“There are some Taliban you don’t control at all and who hate you. There are some you can influence, even if they don’t trust you. And there are some Taliban you do control. At least, Daudzai asked, organize a meeting between the Afghan government and some Taliban you control. That seems to be what Pakistan did on July 7, 2015.”
"The Talibs have a Leadership Council Shura, four military shuras, at least 10 committees that handle things. Some people seem to think if the head person dies that everything else falls apart. This is not the case. "
REMARKS: Some people think that the Taliban movement is just a small group, it is not. They have widespread support of the local people. Those who do not support Mullah Mansoor as successor should have the right to ask for the full shura to formerly appoint him. Differences should be discussed and worked out for harmony purposes. Some want Omar’s son to succeed him, but what about his battlefield experience?
Commanders who can lead an entire movement effectively, such as Commander Hakimullah Mehsud as young as he was have had significant battlefield experience and logistics. Siraj Haqqani has been leading the Haqqani faction for some time now, because Jalaluddin felt he was ready and he wanted to be relieved of day to day operational responsibilities. He wanted to retire militarily and did, back when Osama was still putting out videos. Siraj has more than 10 years leading operations, plus everything else he learned from his Father prior to that.
WANT PEACE?
Stop shooting at them.
Let them live the areas they have spent their lives in, stop harassing them, including denying them the right to bury their dead and have funerals in peace.
If this does not happen, they have to fight back, and at some point may have to accept help from across the border, and THEN you have destabilized two countries, one a nuclear armed country.
[Edited on 8/4/2015 by gina]
