IRAN/SYRIA/RUSSIA/US
The allegation of Russian cruise missiles landing in Iran has been reported by CNN and refuted by Russia.
Cruise missiles fired at Syrian targets from a Russian ship in the Caspian Sea have landed in Iran, unnamed US officials told CNN and the New York Times.
http://presstv.com/Detail/2015/10/08/432591/Russia-cruise-missiles-Daesh-militants-Syria-crash-Iran-rejection
A senior Russian military official has vehemently rejected US allegations that Russian cruise missiles launched from the Caspian Sea and aimed at Daesh positions in Syria have crashed in Iran.
"Any professional knows that during these operations we always fix the target before and after impact. All our cruise missiles hit their target," Russia's Defense Ministry spokesman, Major General Igor Konashenkov, said in a statement on Thursday
"Unlike CNN, we don't report quoting anonymous sources, but we show launches of our missiles and the targets they hit in real-time mode," Konashenkov said.
"No matter how unpleasant and unexpected it is for our colleagues in the Pentagon and Langley, our strike yesterday with precision-guided weapons at ISIS (Daesh) infrastructure in Syria hit its targets," the Russian Defense Ministry spokesman added.
On Wednesday, the Russian Navy launched a total of 26 cruise missiles at terrorist targets in Syria from its warships in the Caspian Sea. The Russian Defense Ministry also released video footage of the missile launches.
“[Last] night the ship strike group of the Russian Navy, consisting of the Dagestan missile ship, the small-sized missile ships, Grad Sviyazhsk, Uglich and Veliky Ustyug, launched cruise missiles against ISIS infrastructural facilities in Syria from the assigned district of the Caspian Sea,” the Defense Ministry noted in a comment accompanying the released video image.
The ministry stressed that the attack was launched “by high-precision ship missile systems, Kalibr-NK, the cruise missiles of which engaged all the assigned targets successfully and with high accuracy.”
REMARKS: If the Russians did not fire missiles into Iran, WHO DID?
WHO DID IT and where did they get those weapons from?
Russia and Iran are allies. While the Sunnis do not like Shiites, some of the resistance groups have agreements with some of the Iranians, ie. Osama's children were sheltered in Iran after the seize at Tora Bora. Who wants to kill all the Shiites? ISIS.
[Edited on 10/10/2015 by gina]
SYRIA and thereabouts
http://www.businessinsider.com/syria-rebels-and-tow-missiles-2015-10
BBC correspondent Frank Gardner tweeted that Saudi Arabia sent 500 (five hundred) TOW anti tank missiles to Syria for use by the Free Syrian Army. Saudi and the US want to send Man Portable
Air Defense Systems there also (MANPADS in military speak).
The Russians press onward, undaunted by US and Saudi efforts to depose the Assad regime.
#BREAKING Russian airstrike destroys the HQ of the 13th Division (FSA) responsible for launching multiple anti-tank (TOW) missile attacks.
https://twitter.com/Brasco_Aad/status/652441589869101056
(it just got more interesting. Russian cargo planes are flying weapons to Yemen to help the Houthis).
http://www.yementimes.com/
Yemeni army spokesman Col. Sharaf Luqman vows that more surprises are awaiting the Saudi aggressors and their allies. “We have defense systems which they had not experienced,” The Yemeni colonel said, stressing that the army and the committees will use such systems in the coming days.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34488087
The Islamic State seizes villages north of Aleppo.
WHERE ARE ALL THE WARS GOING/WHAT DO THEY LEAD UP TO?
We are in the early stages of the greatest war mankind has ever faced, the war when Jesus himself comes back to fight to slay the anti-Christ (called the dajjal in Islamic prophecy). The Bible tells you about the final battles. Ezekiel Chapter 38 and the nations that will be involved. Those fighters over in Afghanistan, Pakistan and other lands KNOW this, and they reject democracy because it is based on secular law, instead of God's laws (as they know them to be). When any of them point out ways that nations, peoples have transgressed the bounds of what was given to them, to the messengers, Prophets, like Moses, Noah, Abraham, etc. and ask questions, they are called terrorists. Maybe their version of society seems wrong to some people. Some want a strict religious society, the US wants no religion in our society. It is slowly being torn down. This is from Pakistan, where one of the TTP Commanders even tells the Pakistani soldiers they are welcome to join them. They would be forgiven for their previous stance of fighting against them.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/4681.htm
If the US wants secular law and a democratic non religion country, that is the US. We do not have a right to impose this on other countries. We have no right to be intervening in their affairs. But sadly, the prophecies will be fulfilled, leading up to the 3rd World War as detailed in Ezekiel Chapter 38.
Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority told the UN that they can no longer abide by the documents they signed, the Oslo Accords, with Israel because of Israel's ongoing violation of the agreements. Israel is annexing 60% of the West Bank. This was September 30, 2015.
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5091.htm
WHO will be the one to lead the march to Jerusalem? First the anti-Christ will go there and take his position in the Temple. Most the world will be deceived and worship him. Eventually Jesus and the small band of fighters with him will go to there to reclaim what was promised to all God's faithful people. Flags from 80 nations will call him a terrorist and be hunting him down. Learn what you can now, so that later on you are not deceived, by anyone or any particular group.
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Update on Raif Badawi
Raif has remained in Saudi custody after sentence of 1,000 lashes and 10 years of imprisonment was imposed upon him for his literary activities which questioned and criticized the current governmental regime. He proposed more freedom of speech and other reforms. The Saudis have a policy of not allowing people to critize their government. There has been previous public outcry from many countries asking the Al Saud government to release Raif and let him go to another country. His wife was exiled and relocated to Canada and lives there with her children. Raif's punishment was halted after the first round of FIFTY lashes due to the effect it had on his health. The usual policy is to administer the beatings every week, but his body could not take that.
Now The European Union has awarded Raif the Sukharov Prize and hopes he can be released to come and accept it.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/29/raif-badawi-sakharov-human-rights-prize-saudi-blogger
"Martin Schulz, the European parliament president, said: “I urge the king of Saudi Arabia to free him [Badawi], so he can accept the prize.”
Named after the Soviet scientist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, the award was created in 1988 to honour people and organisations defending human rights and fundamental freedoms. Badawi was one of three nominees this year, along with the Venezuelan opposition movement Mesa de la Unidad Democrática and the assassinated Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov."
Justin Trudeau, the Canadian prime minister-elect, has called Badawi’s detainment and torture unacceptable.
Amnesty International also calls for his release.
This month in London, he was given the International Writer of Courage award and was co-recipient of the PEN Pinter Prize. Saudi Arabia’s ambassador in London on Monday threatened “potentially serious repercussions” for its ties with Britain unless a more respectful discourse developed.
British lawmaker Syed Kamall, a member of the European assembly who nominated Badawi for the EU prize, said, “Saudi Arabia can lock up the man and they can lash him, but they will only strengthen amongst his countrymen the yearning for free speech and debate that he stands for.”
http://yalibnan.com/2015/10/29/saudi-blogger-raif-badawi-wins-eus-human-rights-prize/
Comments: Saudi Arabia stands by their laws and punishments while the rest of the world disagrees. The blogger, Raif could have just left the country to find a place more suitable to his beliefs and way of life that he desired, but he tried to change the system. I've come to realize what Franklin Delano Roosevelt said many years ago, 'there's no use arguing with the wind, put on your overcoat and leave'. Which is much the same as Jesus said, "when you are persecuted in one place, flee to another", and the Quran says not to challenge whatever leader God has allowed to be put in place, you are to bear with it until he changes it. Those who do not agree with the Saudi regime, laws should seek to leave that land, even if it means seeking asylum in a more liberal land.
[Edited on 10/29/2015 by gina]
OTHER NEWS
SAUDI ARABIA BACKS ISRAEL
One would think that an Arab nation, a Muslim nation would not be backing a Jewish state, but this is not the case.
http://dunyanews.tv/en/World/306155-Will-side-with-Israel-not-Palestine-in-case-of-war
SYRIA
Two hundred fighters who tried to leave Daesh (The Islamic State) to join al Nusra (an Al Qaida organization) were executed.
http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2468406&language=en
PAKISTAN/INDIA
While Al Qaida has long sought to conquer the Indian peninsula, they have had a strategy called Ghazwa e Hind to plan for that. Pakistani Taliban are going to Kashmir to set up an office there. Now that in an of itself would not be cause for concern, EXCEPT that they have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. In my opinion, they have done this because they really want a caliphate and they believe Isis is the only group who may be able to achieve this. Muslims are really not supposed to cross borders to go START wars in other places. They can defend their own lands, but STARTING wars is not proper jihad as I understand it (from the Quran), but these are second and third generation mujahideen progeny fighters. Their beliefs were developed from Soviet War veteran fighters and that was a long, cruel war.
http://www.khaama.com/ghazwa-e-hind-al-qaedas-final-jihad-plan-for-india-6425
The Islamic State had taken a position against the Afghan Taliban and Mullah Omar last year.
http://www.khaama.com/isis-taliban-announced-jihad-against-each-other-3206
REMARKS AND ANALYSIS: Recently there was a massacre in Afghanistan in Badakshan, whereby Isis put Afghan Taliban in a trench and blew them up. There are an estimated 3,500 Isis fighters already in Afghanistan seeking to destabilize that country. If they significantly weaken the Afghan Taliban, it will assist them in their ambition to create a united front of Afghan, Pakistani fighters to wage jihad on India, a nuclear armed country.
The recent large earthquake in Badakshan might be God's answer to Isis. It was said long ago, that God would not allow non-Afghans to conquer that land on any permanent basis. He gave that land to native born Afghans. Isis fighters are from Iraq and other lands. Even related to the US, any country that seeks to conquer it will leave humiliated and/or see their own country punished as a consequence. (waging wars cost a lot of money, the longer a nation stays there the worse it is for their own economy. Osama pointed this out and nobody listened. )
If the US continues shooting at Afghan Taliban, assists the Afghan National Army in doing so, that action will strengthen ISIS because there will be no one to stop Isis's incursion into the country. Who is fighting against the occupation of Afghanistan by non Afghans? Only the Afghan Taliban. While the US does not view itself as an occupying force, we are non Afghans, bear in mind that once Isis has an occupational presence there, the US and it's silent partner allies will not reap any economic rewards from business deals (oil, gas, minerals etc) because Isis will be running things.
You can't run businesses in war torn countries effectively, profitably for any length of time. We have not even stabilized Iraq, and Isis is not leaving there, nor is Al Qaida or any of the other groups who are there fighting against non Iraqi's being there. All these countries really want their own sovereignty, we cannot give them that without leaving our troops there, which makes us an occupying force, because we are not from these lands.
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CHINA/US/PAKISTAN
China has said it will respond accordingly if we keep sending boats near areas they deem to be theirs. These areas have been in dispute among many countries. They are also visiting with Pakistani (one of their allies) and Indian officials, regarding mutual interests. [meaning if we piss them off and start a war with them, their allies, Pakistan and India will back them up].
China's military will take "all necessary" measures in response to any future U.S. Navy incursions into what it considers its territorial waters around islands in the South China Sea, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Thursday.
The statement by Col. Yang Yujun followed the sailing of a U.S. guided missile destroyer within the 12-nautical mile (22-kilometer) territorial limit of one of the islands newly created by China in the strategically vital region
http://www.dawn.com/news/1216173/top-chinese-military-officer-to-visit-pakistan-india
[Edited on 10/29/2015 by gina]
SYRIA AND MULTINATIONAL STATES
The situation there is so serious due to the borders and potential incursions into other countries that multinational states have agreed to meet in Vienna, Austria to try to come to agreement on how the international community will deal with the threat posed by Isis. Iran confirmed they will attend and John Kerry has already met with the Iranian representative Mohammad Javad Zarif in a private closed door session.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/193173-u-s-iran-meet-before-multilateral-syria-talks
https://www.rt.com/news/320079-russia-syrian-opposition-isis/
Turkey is concerned about their borders and is very concerned with the Kurds. They have said they will take whatever action is necessary to stop that, and they will not ask anyone else's permission to do so.
https://www.rt.com/news/320016-turkey-threatens-kurds-syria/
The US just sold Turkey 70 million dollars in smart bomb kits. (Just in case they need them?)
"1,000 Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) tail kits that are used to turn unguided bombs into all-weather smart munitions using GPS guidance systems."
While not mentioned in the above articles, fighters from Uzbekistan have given their allegiance to Isis. Russia believes that the entire Asian region is at risk.
RUSSIA/SYRIA
Russia has hit 118 targets in the last 24 hours in Syria. They are not waiting. They want to protect their own borders and they know if Isis is successful in Syria, they will go to neighboring countries and they are not waiting for their own borders to be breached.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/193106-russian-warplanes-hit-record-118-syria-targets-in-24-hours
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While people keep focusing on the debates and the cornucopia of candidates, we ought to be paying attention to what is going on behind our backs right in front of our faces that the mainstream news people don't talk about.
This past week there were three Congressional hearings you should know about.
"In the morning, the Senate Armed Services Committee held a lengthy hearing on cyberwarfare.
In the afternoon, a subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee discussed the present size and deployment of the US fleet of aircraft carriers,
while another subcommittee of the same panel discussed the modernization of US nuclear weapons.
What's going on here? They are getting ready for WWIII. They know it will come, it is only a matter of when, and they know who the adversaries will be (and they haven't even read Ezekiel that describes the big war!).
The hearings were component parts of an ongoing process. The witnesses referred to their past writings and statements. The senators and representatives referred to previous testimony by other witnesses. In other words, the preparations for world war, using cyber weapons, aircraft carriers, bombers, missiles and the rest of a vast array of weaponry, have been under way for a protracted period of time. They are not a response to recent events, whether in the South China Sea, Ukraine, Syria or anywhere else.
Each of the hearings presumed a major US conflict with another great power (sometimes unnamed, sometimes explicitly designated as China or Russia) within a relatively short time frame, years rather than decades. The danger of terrorism, hyped incessantly for the purposes of stampeding public opinion, was downplayed and to some extent discounted. At one point in the Senate hearing on cyberwarfare, in response to a direct question from Democrat Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, the panel witnesses all declared that their greatest concern was nation-states, not terrorists.
One of the witnesses at that hearing was Dr. Peter W. Singer, listed as a “Strategist and Senior Fellow” for New America, a Washington think tank. He titled his presentation, “The Lessons of World War 3.” He began his prepared statement with the following description of that imagined conflict:
“US and Chinese warships battle at sea, firing everything from cannons to cruise missiles to lasers. Stealthy Russian and American fighter jets dogfight in the air, with robotic drones flying as their wingmen. Hackers in Shanghai and Silicon Valley duel in digital playgrounds. And fights in outer space decide who wins below on Earth. Are these scenes from a novel or what could actually take place in the real world the day after tomorrow? The answer is both.”
None of the hearings saw any debate about either the likelihood of a major war or the necessity of winning that war. No one challenged the assumption that “victory” in a world war between nuclear-armed powers is a meaningful concept. The discussion was entirely devoted to what technologies, assets and human resources were required for the US military to prevail.
At the House subcommittee hearing on aircraft carriers, the chairman noted that one of the witnesses, a top Navy admiral, had expressed concern over having “an 11-carrier navy in a 15-carrier world.” There were so many challenges confronting Washington, he continued, that what was really needed was a navy of 21 aircraft carriers—double the present size, and one that would bankrupt even a country with far more resources than the United States.
The Senate hearing on cybersecurity touched briefly on the internal challenge to American militarism. The lead witness, retired Gen. Keith Alexander, former director of the National Security Agency and former head of the Pentagon’s CyberCommand, bemoaned the effect of leaks by NSA contractor Edward Snowden and Army private Chelsea Manning, declaring that “insider attacks” were one of the most serious threats facing the US military.
It's not about Afghanistan, Iraq, Somalia, Libya, Syria, Yemen.
A war between the United States and a major power like China or Russia, even if it were possible to prevent its escalation into an all-out nuclear exchange, would involve a colossal mobilization of the resources of American society, both economic and human. It would mean further dramatic reductions in the living standards of the American people, combined with a huge blood toll that would inevitably fall mainly on the children of the working class."
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article43343.htm
Remarks: Why would they consider such a war that would cause the deaths of millions of people? The goal of the power elite is to depopulate the earth to save resources and land for their own selves and uses. They only need a certain number of people to work as the slaves that pay taxes into a system that supports them. (hey they don't work, they are invested, their money works and they just spend and enjoy that. They own the stocks of the corporations that make money every time you create or consume products from these companies. If you work at these companies, they make money off the profits of the company, because they are invested in the companies. You work there, you are their slave, they make millions, you don't. You are allowed to eek out your day to day existence and in return for being a good slave you get a vacation once or twice a year, a house that you spend your life paying for and by the time it is paid off, you have 10-15 years left, then you die. The rest of the creature comforts, the SUV, the wife etc. are just perks for being a good slave. The put it on the Georgia Guidestones how many people should be on the earth, what about the rest, they will be taken out in wars, famines, pandemics and natural disasters (man made or bonafide real disasters).
Congress discussing going to war with Russia and China and nobody hears about that. Guess we will hear about it when there is an event that we need to respond to. I could make the analogy but I won't. (September 2001).
PAKISTAN/CHINA
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/11/437254/Pakistan-hands-over-Gwadar-FTZ-to-China-
Pakistan handed hundreds of hectares of land over to China Wednesday for development of a special economic zone in the port of Gwadar, part of a $46 billion project giving Beijing greater access to the Middle East, Africa and Europe.
The government of Baluchistan province -- Pakistan's poorest -- handed over about 280 hectares of a 923-hectare (2,300-acre) swathe of tax-exempt land that Beijing will develop under a 43-year lease.
The rest of the land will be handed over under the agreement with the public China Overseas Port Holding Company "soon", senior Pakistani government officials told AFP.
The development is part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, an ambitious $46 billion investment plan linking western China to the Arabian Sea, part of Beijing's ambition to expand its trade and transport footprint across Central and South Asia while countering US and Indian influence.
REMARKS: "linking western China to the Arabian Sea". The oil in Balochistan, Pakistan was desired by the US as well as the oil in the Caspian Sea (bordering Afghanistan). Pakistan has now given the rights to the land to China. In your Bible, in Ezekiel, it says the third world war will be Russia, China against the US. The Saudis? Today they are our friends, but they have taken a hit with oil prices plummeting, and that hurts their economy. Will they end up siding with China, who has the Reminbi that many feel could become the world's reserve currency, after the US dollar (which oil is traded in) falls.
China wanted it added to the basket of currencies that is held in reserve, the Special Drawing Rights, SPDR's. Eventually.....
FRANCE
Isis has admitted that they were behind the attacks in France. At least eight attackers are dead, seven of them in suicide bombings. Witnesses to one shooting said police had told them at least one attacker was still at large. The latest death toll from French prosecutors stands at 128. A further 200 people were injured, at least 99 of them seriously. Mark Colclough, a British-Danish psychotherapist witnessed the shooting at the restaurant and said the shooter was professionally dressed and trained
“He was standing in a shooting position. He had his right leg forward and he was standing with his left leg back. He was holding up to his left shoulder a long automatic machine gun. I saw it had a magazine beneath it.”
Colclough said the man was left-handed and shooting in short bursts. “It was fully intentional, professional bursts of three or four shots. Everything he was wearing was tight, either boots or shoes and the trousers were tight, the jumper he was wearing was tight, no zippers or collars. Everything was black.
“If you think of what a combat soldier looks like, that is it – just without the webbing. Just a man in military uniform, black jumper, black trousers, black shoes or boots and a machine-gun.”
Colclough said police had told him the killer he shad seen had not been caught. “We were taken to the police station to give a witness statement. The gunman we saw has not been apprehended. They confirmed that on the way out. We asked if it was safe to walk home and they said definitely not.”
The Guardian’s journalists currently in Paris are Angelique Chrisafis, Luke Harding, Kim Willsher, Jon Henley and Emma Graham-Harrison. The Observer’s reporter in Paris is Tracy McVeigh. The Guardian’s Shiv Malik has been looking at which group is likely to be behind the well co-ordinated attack reminding us that Al Qaeda was behind the Charlie Hebdo attack in France.
Le Monde journalist Daniel Psenny, whose apartment overlooks the emergency exit of the Bataclan has posted an extraordinary video, of people clambering out of windows to escape from the theatre – a scene he said reminded him of 9/11.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/13/paris-attacks-shootings-explosions-hostages
the video in this one shows people hanging out the windows.
The Islamic State group has released a undated video where a militant is heard saying France “will not live in peace as long as bombing continues”. The video was released through the group’s propaganda arm, the Al-Hayat Media Centre. It shows a bearded fighter, speaking in Arabic, calling on on French Muslims to carry out attacks in France if they are unable to travel to Syria themselves.
“As long as you keep bombing you will not live in peace. You will even fear traveling to the market,” he says, according to a Reuters translation.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/13/paris-attacks-shootings-explosions-hostages
ISIS statement:
The statement said: “France and those who follow her voice must know that they remain the main target of Islamic State and that they will continue to smell the odour of death for having led the crusade, for having dared to insult our prophet, for having boasted of fighting Islam in France and striking Muslims in the caliphate with their planes".
Remarks: I've read accounts that authorities captured someone in Bavaria last week that had bomb making materials and they know he was en route to France, and another report that said one of the shooters was of small, European descent.
That seven out of eight fighters is killed may not be the end of the carnage for France. No one knows how many were sent there. It was reported that there was a Syrian passport next to one of the suicide bombers. Isis is truly waging a Holy War. Osama's perspective that the world is in a Holy War has come to fruition. Isis is not backing down, they have elements of Al Qaida that have joined them AND IF Osama was not killed in Abbottabad, world leaders should be very afraid, because he never cared about getting any glory, he would be very happy to operate from behind the scenes and not even claim responsibility for attacks, just let the world say what it will and keep doing his jihad.
As for reporters in France, France 24 should be covering it in depth locally.
What you may not have heard is that the French President Hollande was at the soccer match, and Al Gore and Obama were due to go there this week for a climate change summit. I think those plans have changed. The attacks are a reminder that foreign policy, France participating in the war in Syria cause retribution attacks in their own lands. This is something the world has not learned yet.
[Edited on 11/16/2015 by gina]
RE: Mohamed Emewazi
The US launched drone strikes against a group of people last week and believe that Mohamed Emewazi was among those killed, but no confirmation from Isis has come forth on this. If/When he is killed, someone else will assume the responsibilities entrusted to him. Here is some background and photos of the man we have come to know as Jihadi John, who killed foreigners in all those chilling Isis videos.
http://news.sky.com/story/1441818/is-defector-i-saw-jihadi-john-kill-hostage
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/isis-defector-describes-jihadi-john-140644740.html#
COMMENT: How likely is it that Mohamed Emewazi was in that car? Well the guy who was known to guard the prisoners that were eventually taken to be executed was found in Turkey.
Aine Lesley Davis has reportedly been detained by Turkish authorities in the hours following his former comrade’s suspected death in a US drone strike. Two Turkish officials declined to release any further information, telling Reuters investigations by intelligence and police officers were continuing.
[Edited on 11/14/2015 by gina]
SYRIA
The al-Qaida-affiliated al-Nusra Front announced on Saturday the capture of a number of Hizbullah fighters in Syria. It said via its Twitter account that three Hizbullah fighters were capture in Reef Aleppo in Syria.It identified the detainees as Mohammed Mehdi Shoaib and Moussa Qurani, both from southern Lebanon, and Hassan Nazih Taha from al-Hermel from the Bekaa.
http://www.naharnet.com/stories/en/194436-nusra-front-captures-3-hizbullah-fighters-in-syria
Remarks: Hezbollah fighters in Syria since 2012 Shiites fighting since 2012. Hezollah is from Lebanon. Iran is a Shiite nation. The US is actually sending 1,000 troops to Syria to try to train the Syrian Army. The Syrian Army is no match for Hezbollah troops or Isis fighters. Will the US see attacks such as those in France? We're not as safe as people think we are apparently.
Sheikh Nasralluh of Hezbollah met with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahianc regarding the Syrian situation. Amir-Abdollahian, who is on a regional tour, arrived in Beirut on Wednesday morning and held talks with a number of Lebanese officials, including Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri.
The Iranian diplomat has now flown to the Omani capital of Muscat on the next leg of his tour.
On Tuesday, Amir-Abdollahian held talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Bogdanov in Moscow, the Iranian official’s first destination in the tour. The two sides discussed international plans for a new round of talks on Syria and underlined bilateral cooperation on the issue.
The talks, scheduled for Saturday in Vienna, will bring together some 20 countries and international bodies to try to hammer out a roadmap for peace in Syria.
http://www.albawaba.com/news/nasrallah-and-senior-iranian-diplomat-meet-beirut-767544
Remarks: There will be much to discuss at that Summit in Vienna. What is the best course of action that we can take? Get out of foreign lands, let them manage their own countries. Will that happen? Nope.
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FRANCE additional
Others were killed outside La Belle Epuipe bar in the 11th district.
CNN iReporter Chris Morrow from San Diego was staying five minutes from the Cambodian restaurant covering an event.
"I heard an explosion and pop, pop, pop, which sounded like gunfire. I instinctively grabbed my phone and started filming out of the window."
"The men were huddling around and there was no one on the street except them. They had long shotguns and seemed hysterical, screaming and not really sure what to do.
"They tried a few apartment doors, trying to get in but they were locked. In the end, they ran towards the river. I am not sure if they were police or the attackers.
Remarks: Men with shotguns ran towards the river.
UPDATE:
Police are reportedly tracking down a "Citroën Berlingo style car" carrying four heavily armed people who forced their way through a tollbooth on the A10 motorway, south-west of the capital this afternoon. According to The Parisien newspaper, the car is said to be heading towards the capital.
Police are also trying to track down two cars they believe were used by the perpetrators of Friday’s deadly attacks, according to the French media. The first, according to radio station RTL, is a black Seat with blue xenon headlights and according to the l’Obs website, a second car is also being searched for.
[Edited on 11/14/2015 by gina]
This is the Full Statement the Islamic State released to the press.
A Statement on the Blessed Onslaught in Paris Against the Crusader Nation of France
in the name of Allah, the Most Merciful, Most Beneficient,
Allah t'aala said, "they thought that their fortresses would protect them from Allah, but Allah came upon them from where they had not expected and he cast terror into their hearts seod thy estroyed their houses by their own hands and the hands of the believers. So take warning O People of vision [al Hashr 2]
In a blessed battle whose causes of success were enabled by Allah, a group of believers from the soldiers of the Caliphate (may Allah strengthen them and support it) set out targeting the capital of prostitution, and vice, the lead carrier of the cross in Europe - Paris. This group of believers were youth who divorced the worldly life and advanced towards their enemy hoping to be killed for Allah's sake, doing so in support of his religion, His Prophet, (blessings and peace be upon him) and His allies. They did so in spite of his enemies, Thus they were truthful with Allah we consider them so and Allah granted victory upon their hands and cast terror into the hearts of the crusaders in their very own homeland.
And so eight brothers equipped with explosive belts and assault rifles attacked precisely chosen targets in the center of the capital of France. These targets included the Stade de France stadium during a soccer match, between the teams of Germany and France, both of which are crusader nations attended by the imbecile of France, (Francois Hollande). The targets included the Bataclan theatre for exhibitions, where hundreds of pagans gathered for a concert of prostitution and vice. There were also simultaneous attacks on other targets in the tenth, eleventh and eighteenth districts and elsewhere. Paris was thereby shaken beneath the crusaders feet, who were constricted by it's streets. The results of the attacks was the deaths of no less than two hundred crusaders and the wounding of even more. All praise, grace and favor belongs to Allah.
Allah blessed our brothers and granted them what they desired. They detonated their explosive belts in the masses of the disbelievers after finishing off their ammunition. We ask Allah to accept them as martyrs and to allow us to follow them.
Let France and all nations following in it's path know that they will continue to be at the top of the target list for the Islamic State and that the scent of death will not leave it's nostrils as long as they partake in the crusader campaign as long as they dare to curse our Prophet, (blessings and peace be upon him), and as long as they boast about their war against Islam in France and their strikes against Muslims in the land of the Caliphate with their jets, which were of no avail to them in the filthy streets and alleys of Paris. Indeed this is just the beginning. It is also a warning for any who wish to take heed. Allah is the greatest, And to Allah belongs all honor and to His Messenger, and to the believers, but the hypocrites do not know al Munifiqun 8
Comment: It is important for people to understand what is going on and for people to hear what those who did the attacks have to say.
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P.S. In addition to the French, Isis has said during the last few days, that they will be attacking Russia very soon, because Russia has come to Syria and is bombing and shooting at them. Many might think, are they crazy, they cannot defeat Russia, well those same people thought the mujahideen could not defeat Russia either when they came to Afghanistan, but God's hand was with the mujahideen and Russia had to leave, with only 7 groups of fighters led by people whose sons and their sons are now following in their footsteps.
I will also bring up there was prophecy by that nice lady named Annie, who said she had a vision of Russia bombing Chicago and Washington, D.C., so we really need to pay attention and encourage our govt. to not get further involved in this fight among these other countries or it can mean the destabilization of America. Others have prophecized there would NOT be an election in 2016, the only way that seems possible is if there is no more organized government to elect someone to govern.
Each country has a right to govern themselves, to choose democracy and secular law, or Sharia law and a caliphate or anything in between. It is not the right of other countries to go there and get involved in it. China doesn't go to war. They stay home and mind their own business. Most countries do that, why are we always everywhere involved in all these wars? It is time to stop that. Our government is bringing into a global war scenario, and in a global war, it will be a nuclear war. Why are we allowing this and courses of action that lead up to that?
ISIS/WASHINGTON WARNED
CAIRO - Islamic State warned in a new video on Monday that countries taking part in air strikes against Syria would suffer the same fate as France, and threatened to attack in Washington.
"We say to the states that take part in the crusader campaign that, by God, you will have a day, God willing, like France's and by God, as we struck France in the center of its abode in Paris, then we swear that we will strike America at its center in Washington," the man said. [The man identified as Al Ghareeb the Algerian].
REMARKS: When any country sends bombs or troops to another country and drops their bombs or shoots at the locals, it is an act of war against THAT country unless the leader of that country asked you to come and even then they only ask others to come because they are involved in a war IN their country. Assad did NOT ask us to come there to deal with Isis. He is the current leader of that country and does not want us there.
ISIS did NOT come to the US and do anything here, so we cannot say our fighting them is retaliation for acts they committed here. Yes they went to France, but only after France sent planes to Syria to bomb them, and all the other things previously mentioned (humiliating the Prophet of Islam with those cartoons, refusing to allow women to veil themselves is the same as declaring war on the religion of Islam - telling people they cannot practice their religion).
Our political policy of going anywhere, anytime and shooting and bombing people of other countries is not acceptable foreign policy for a civilized people. Even in the Quran it explains to Muslims if they are under the leadership of an oppressive leader, they have to bear with it, they are not allowed to assassinate him. They have to bear with it because it is only Allah who can remove oppression at his will. Understanding this concept is one reason the Taliban did not seek to take out Karzai; the situation under Rabbani's regime was different, Mullah Omar said "there is no law, there is no order" and the common people were being attacked including the women. Men are the protectors and maintainers of women and the things that were going on there were so horrible, they had no choice. Fifteen men with 30 rifles set out to stop the raping, pillaging, abduction of women. God agreed with them and granted them success. Even now, there is a division of Taliban who do not accept Mullah Mansour as the successor Amir, they are the Mullah Dadullah faction, led by Mullah Mohammad Rasul Mullah Rasul, who was believed to be close to Taliban founder Mullah Omar, served as the governor of southwestern Nimroz Province during the group's rule.
but they have said in regards to Isis, they regard them as brothers, but they will not tolerate them operating from inside Afghanistan.
"Mullah Mohammad Rasul, leader of a dissident Taliban faction calling itself the High Council of Afghanistan Islamic Emirate, told a November 7 rally in the western Herat province that the group will not harm any "mujahedin -- whether they are Daesh [the IS militant group] or Al-Qaeda -- who are fighting in other countries."
"They are our brothers; [but] we will not let them in [Afghanistan] nor will we agree with them in this country. They should not interfere here. We highly appreciate them while they are [outside Afghanistan]," Rasul told some 6,000 people who attended the rally in Zerkoh, in the Shindand district.'
The groups within the countries, and the leaders of individual countries must decide their own fates. We CANNOT, SHOULD NOT, and MUST NOT be globally interfering in world affairs to benefit our foreign trade partner friends, which is the basis of ALL our wars in the Middle East.
We are quick to yell 'terrorists' if any group launches attacks on US interests, or allied countries, but we have no qualms going to other lands and bombing/shooting them because we don't like them, they are in the way.
Our going to Syria was an act of war on Bashir Al Assad and his regime. To say well we are going after terrorists is like a sideshow. We want Assad out of power, but what right do we have to try to force that to happen? Isn't it the people in Syria who have that right, and that right alone?
This 'war on terror' will continue and targeting only certain religious groups, goes against the freedom of religion concept that we hold dear. We have to stop the caliphate because they might want to come here later is not sufficient justification for what we are doing - and I do NOT like it that Isis put 100 Afghan Taliban in a trench and blew them up in Baghlan - but that is the Afghan Talibs right to avenge that.
We should secure out borders, declare secular law and democracy as the law of the US, and get out of other countries. Let them decide for themselves what they want. That is the only way for us to have peace, otherwise, we can keep bombing, and they will launch attacks here. It is cause and effect, what is it that the people in Washington cannot understand? Osama was able to go with someone and personally watch the person murder a CIA agent outside CIA headquarters. He also launched a car bomb suicide attack on the Bureau Chief in Pakistan some years back.
This back and forth solves nothing, does not bring peace to anyone in any lands. Again, I recommend RE-THINK foreign policy, get out of foreign lands, secure US borders.
[Edited on 11/16/2015 by gina]
We went to Iraq to fight Saddam Hussein, but he had not come to the US nor attacked the US. The US declared war on him.
We went to Pakistan to shoot at Pakistani Taliban, but they had not come here, nor attacked us, and Pakistan did not ask us to come there to help them out.
We went to Afghanistan, Mullah Omar did not ask us to come. He was in charge. When the problems of Osama's being there caused too much turmoil, he dealt with it himself, he asked Osama to leave and granted him a year to do that. Honor bound to his word, Osama left and went to Pakistan. There was no reason for the US to keep attacking Afghans, and we are still there doing it. Karzai did not ask us to come, he asked us to leave, he asked us stop the Night Raids, we refused and it goes on and on.
We went to Libya, Qaddafi did not ask us to come, he could have put down his own insurgency.
We went to Syria, Assad did not ask us to come.
We ignored the wishes of the rulers of other countries and went there essentially declaring war on those countries and their peoples. That is the point.
FRANCE - updates AND BELGIUM, GERMANY
Roughly an hour ago, armed police undertook an operation at the hotel in Alfortville, which investigators believe Friday night’s attackers used as a safe house. A room in Appart’City Alfortville, a hotel in southern Paris, was booked in the name of Salah Abdeslam from 11-17 November.
The security cordon has just been lifted, and guests were allowed back into the hotel, according to Sky News correspondent Tom Parmenter
Tom Parmenter
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Julian Borger reports:
According to reports in Belgium, a car has run through a police checkpoint near the Belgian town of Quiévrain on the French border, triggering a large Franco-Belgian police operation.
The car has so far not been found, and a description not yet released.
Syringes, vials, and tourniquets. The newspaper is in French, pop ups occur asking if you want a free subscription for a certain amount of time, just click on cancel and the article will come up with the hotel room video.
in Paris: Jonathan Bucks reporting (15 minutes ago).
According to French newspaper 20 Minutes, a police officer opened fire earlier this afternoon in central Paris. One person seriously injured, the area is cordoned off.
Info @20Minutes] Rue Saint-Honoré: Un blessé grave après un coup de feu d'un policier http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1732655-20151117-paris-policier-ouvre-feu-apres-refus-obtemperer …
Search underway in Mollenbeeck, Belgium.
https://twitter.com/GuillaumeAuda?ref_src ="twsrc%5Etfw"
#Molenbeek policiers à cran. 1 caméraman de France 2 se fait brutalement confisquer sa caméra par 1 policier belge
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Molenbeek?src ="hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"
GERMANY: Suspicious Suitcase Found At Stadium - Stadium evacuated.
Germany’s interior ministry has said the arrests made earlier near Aachen were not “closely connected” to the Paris attacks.
https://twitter.com/jennyhillBBC
From Associated Press: 7 minutes ago Germany) Their Sports Reporter was asked to leave (evacuate) for safety reasons. The Associated Press reports that the Hannover stadium hosting the Germany-Netherlands game is being evacuated: due to a suspicious suitcase found at the stadium. German Chancellor Angela Merkel and several cabinet ministers were expected to attend the match, which comes four days after the terrorist attacks in Paris.
REMARKS: France, the US and others continue bombing Syria. The Islamic State therefore, will probably continue to attack the countries that are bombing them and their territory.
[Edited on 11/17/2015 by gina]
Some prophecy. Interesting that the land the Islamic State wants is the same as the original war of the Assyrian empire. The latter day of Assyria will arise it is in the Bible.
[Edited on 11/18/2015 by gina]
ISIS/NY
Isis did recently release a new video praising the attacks on France and promising that what will come to the United States will be "even more bitter". In the video they showed scenes of Times Square (42 Street and 8th Avenue), and Herald Square (34 Street and 6th - 7th Avenue). The videos reportedly showed cabs and suicide bombers.
NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio says there is "no specific threat against NY". If the video showed Times Square and Herald Square, so why does he say there is no specific threat against NY? Bill Bratton is the NYC Police Commissioner. NYC has 35,000 police officers and Mayor DeBlasio said there are 500 Critical Response Command officers who specialize in terror/mass casualty attacks. They will provide appropriate response to any threat or situation that occurs, but seriously, can they stop someone who is going to blow themselves up in a crowded city?
Isis said they would retaliate for the ongoing airstrikes being conducted in Syria, the US is leading those strikes, so it is reasonable to conclude that yes they will strike America. Are they just trying to scare people? No, in Islam, they warn you before they attack, that is so that you have a chance to stop what you are doing, in this case our bombing in Syria, to prevent future loss of life. In Islam repentence is very important, the warnings are a chance for people to repent. If the people do not repent, then the retaliation is carried out.
As I have said before, our foreign policy actions have been, are and will be the justification for others to fight back. We go to their countries to bomb them, they come here to bomb us. Again, I suggest letting other countries handle the disputes within their own borders and we stay out of it. I know that will not happen, so that means an escalation of violence, injuries and death to people in Syria, Isis fighters, civilians too, and to peoples anywhere they retaliate against the aggression being launched on them. Our leaders can justify it all they want to, but the bottom line is violence begets violence. Eventually, these decisions will lead to persecuting Muslims, and the religion itself and their will be full blown wars. There is prophecy that it will be so bad when Jesus returns, he will be called mislabeled as a terrorist, because the anti-Christ will be in power and be accepted by people as Jesus. The real Jesus will have 80,000 troops coming after him from multiple nations and yes the fighting will still be going on in Syria at that time. This is what is to come.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/18/us/new-york-isis-video-threat/index.html
I did not know what that thing was that the guy in the video was pulling, now I do. It is the same as one of the things in the pictures from this article, the pin to a hand grenade. So they want to do a suicide bombing and also use a hand grenade in Times Square - but the authorities tell us not to worry. The stampede alone from the people would kill people.
http://mic.com/articles/95384/what-syria-s-civil-war-looks-like-through-the -instagram-of-a-young-jihadist#.WhdnlqNSO
[Edited on 11/23/2015 by gina]
ISIS Supply Lines could be stopped in Turkey. David Graeber asks why they aren't.
How could Isis be eliminated? In the region, everyone knows. All it would really take would be to unleash the largely Kurdish forces of the YPG (Democratic Union party) in Syria, and PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ party) guerillas in Iraq and Turkey.
But instead, YPG-controlled territory in Syria finds itself placed under a total embargo by Turkey, and PKK forces are under continual bombardment by the Turkish air force. Not only has Erdo?an done almost everything he can to cripple the forces actually fighting Isis; there is considerable evidence that his government has been at least tacitly aiding Isis itself.
http://journal-neo.org/2015/08/24/erdogan-s-dirty-dangerous-isis-games/
More and more details are coming to light revealing that the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, variously known as ISIS, IS or Daesh, is being fed and kept alive by Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, the Turkish President and by his Turkish intelligence service, including MIT, the Turkish CIA.
Remarks: Some of those who say they want to eliminate Isis's ability to wage war should look at this.
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[Edited on 11/20/2015 by gina]
There is someone who used to work for Isis's media who now has his own campaign against them called Raqqa Is Being Silently Slaughtered. This is his website.
FRANCE ON NEW ALERT THURS 11.19.15 Time 11:18 AM Eastern Standard Time, this is from two hours ago:
I didn't think anything would top the video threat of suicide bomber(s) in Times Square and Herald Square NYC but this even beats that. Officials are now concerned there may be a biological or chemical weapons hazard attack for France.
"French emergency services were being issued with the most powerful antidote to sarin and other nerve gases." The distribution of atropine was ordered before the November 13 Paris attacks and ahead of the climate change summit in the French capital, which starts at the end of this month.
The French Prime Minister is warning France could be attacked by a dirty bomb. Well he must have some info. to think that and issue the warning. At least he is being straightforward the public, not like Bratton saying "there is no specific threat against NYC" when the video clearly shows someone preparing to do a bombing in Times Square.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/france-is-put-on-alert-for-chemical-terror-attack-a3118581.html
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/476523/Chemical-attack-ISIS-Poland-exercise
REMARKS:
1) In the past week, The capital of a major European City was attacked along with other simultaneous attacks, thereafter, Washington, DC and NYC have been told they will be next.
Yet officials tell us to just go about our daily lives and not to be afraid.
Why shouldn't people be afraid?
2) France may be facing sarin or nerve gas attacks.
But officials tell them they should just go about their daily lives.
3) Isis cites the bombings in Syria as reasons they attacked France and will attack the US. The governments continue attacking Isis in Syria.
Are the people of France and the US just supposed to accept that they will be attacked because our govts. keep bombing in Syria? Are the citizens of these countries just collateral damage in a larger
more covert war for world resource acquisition and dominance?
4) Isis has said more suicide and car bomb attacks will be coming to France, yet they are still going to hold the global Climate Change summit Nov. 29-Dec. 12th jeopardizing the lives of world leaders. They are sure they can protect them.
Why are they risking the lives of global dignitaries and heads of state?
5. "US warned IS was capable of Paris attack in May. US intelligence meanwhile published a report showing it warned in May that IS was capable of carrying out the kind of large-scale coordinated attacks seen in Paris. The assessment from the Office of Intelligence and Analysis, in coordination with the FBI, specifically refers to Abaaoud as a ringleader of Belgian plotters and warned Europe was more at risk of attack than the United States."
http://www.geo.tv/article-204706-French-PM-warns-of-risk-of-chemical-attack#_
Nothing was able to be done to protect the citizens of Paris preventing this attack. How can they assure the safety of their citizens against future attacks? They can't. How can the US safeguard it's citizens against the attacks threatened? They can't either.
[Edited on 11/20/2015 by gina]
There is a video that has emerged from inside the apt. of the co-called mastermind of the France attacks, that was released upon his death, calling other Muslims to fight. He asks them if they are happy with their humiliating lives and advises that happiness is only found in religion and fighting for it.
They say that 5,000 rounds of ammo were used in the standoff with police, which ultimately led to his death.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/paris-attacks-chilling-video-emerges-6861688
REMARKS: They fight against secular law. They fight for what they believe to be God's laws to be implemented, but raping women does not earn the pleasure of God. I have seen other videos that say that they believe if a non believing woman is raped 10 times, she can become a Muslim or will be forgiven of her sins prior to accepting Islam. That is not the way of the God that I know. Newsmedia correspondent Atika Shubert has the videos on these things that have been going on in Iraq. This is one thing that the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant is incorrect about.
The way to stop terror attacks requires education on the correct application of God's laws. For this scholars are needed. All the other groups would listen to your point and discuss it with you. Isis does not want to discuss anything. They attack other Muslims in Muslim lands, and that is forbidden in Islam also.
In the Quran, it is commanded "there is no compulsion in religion", you cannot force religion on someone and have it be a legitamite conversion. People have free will to either be faithful to God's ways or to be a polytheist, an apostate, a disbeliever, an atheist. The person must choose for themselves. The Quran also stated that the Jews, Sabians, Christians, Zoroastrians would have no fear or regret on the Last Day as long as they believed in God, did good deeds, (including zakat, which is charity). The different groups received their guidance from messengers sent to them.
What Isis is doing is like ethnic cleansing, only it is religious cleansing, yet their beliefs as Muslims are not accepted by other Muslims. They have been disavowed by the Afghan Taliban, by scholars from Al Azhar in Cairo, by Al Qaida itself led by Ayman Al Zawahiri who refuses to give an oath of allegiance to them.
You don't want to hear it, but it is ALL these other groups who must unite under one banner to try to counter the effects that Isis is having on the youth in other countries. They must put forth correct Islamic doctrine othwerwise what is your alternative, kill every Muslim just in case he might end up siding with Isis? That is like what Hitler did with the Jews. We cannot have another holocaust like that.
John McCain feels that we should send 10,000 US troops to Syria to destroy their base, but I do not think that is the solution. That would be a band aid on the larger problem, which is secular law vs. religious law and who will be leading lands in the world.
To reiterate what should be done to foster peace.
1) Work to unite the other Muslim groups under one banner. Stop shooting and bombing those Afghans who only want to protect their own borders and state sovereignty. Let them work out their differences with their govt. The more Afghans you shoot, the more Isis fighters make incursions into that country.
2) Take David Graeber's advice and have Turkey cut off the supply lines.
3) Get our troops out of ALL Muslim countries, let them handle their own affairs.
4) Stop bombing Isis in Syria, the locals have already left and are refugees in other countries, let Assad handle his own country. Stop trying to depose him.
5) Seal the US border with Mexico particularly near El Paso. Stop holding Congressional debates, and actually DO something about it. Hire veterans, homeless, retired people to do it. Set up man and woman camps like the oil companies have to house them while they work. Truck in donated food for them.
That's a start.
[Edited on 11/19/2015 by gina]
11.20.15
The UN Security Council permanent members seek to have legislation passed regarding Isis within days. World powers want a single resolution that declares they will destroy Isis in Iraq and Syria by using all necessary means. France is formally submitting a draft that could be implemented by the weekend. The Russian version previously submitted had provisions seeking cooperation from Assad and his regime. This is also the reason John McCain is against working with Russia on the airstrikes in Syria, Russia is loyal to Assad, so is Iran.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/isis-world-powers-plan-uni ted-nations-security-council-resolution-to-declare-war-against-group-in-a67 41181.html
There are additional new targets announced by Isis today, they include St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, along a cathedral in Milan, Italy, and more suicide and car bomb attacks in France in a video called "Paris Before Rome" they also said that they would end these new attacks with the White House and it would burn. (sounds like nukes).
This is from one year ago, the plan to take Paris and all of France and other nations for the caliphate.
We will attack Washington and soon conquer Rome
Muslim Leaders Aim of World Domination Rome, London, Spain, Paris America.
Russia has been launching nuclear missiles from the Caspian Sea.
ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaZ4h7WDns
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AFGHANISTAN
The situation in Afghanistan is that Isis has opened three training camps inside the country, at the protest of the Afghan Taliban who are NOT part of and will NOT be part of Isis. The Sheikh Jalaluddin training camp, Sheikh Abu Omar al Baghdadi camp, “Sheikh Abu Musab al Zarqawi camp in Nangahar province. In August, the “Shahid Hakeemullah Mehsud camp" opened in Pakistan's tribal areas.
The US killed Jalaluddin Haqqani on October 13th this year with a drone airstrike. He was a well respected scholar and Commander during the Afghan Soviet War. In recent years he retired from his military duties and remained a spiritual leader for the group under his command. The US also assassinated two of his sons, and Siraj Haqqani has been the operational leader in Afghanistan to present day. It was Siraj's group who negotiated and facilitated the release of the prisoner of war, Bowe Berghdahl, who is now back in the United States.
The US launched drone strikes on Abu Musab al Zarqawi in Iraq, Al Qaida mourned and praised his activities as he was the operational leader in Iraq. The US launched a drone on Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the operational leader of Isis and killed him also.
The US also was responsible for the drone strike into the compound where Baitullah Mehsud was. At the time he was laying on the roof getting an i.v. drip for a stomach condition, while many others were in the house. When the drone strike hit, the shock put him in a coma where he died a few weeks later. Hakimullah Mehsud vowed revenge for the attack and continued with Tehrik-i-Taliban's activities. Hakimullah was assassinated by a drone also, as well as Wali ur Rehman and other notable Pakistani Taliban leaders. The Pakistani Taliban became so fed up, they joined Isis believing that as one united group they can avenge the ongoing slaughter of their brothers.
Mullah Omar died of natural causes, I heard he had hepatitis and pneumonia when he passed. There were divisions within the Taliban but most have accepted Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour as the successor Amir of the group. They fight only for the sovereignty of Afghanistan and their borders. They fight only to remove foreign forces from their lands and they want a Shariah compliant government.
If the premis that the US is secretly running, funding (covertly thru various Arab states that provide funding, weapons, etc) Isis, then it means the Afghan talibs have to either compromise on their religion and join Isis or die as martyrs. They live with dignity and conscience and God knows who are his and who are not. Some of them can trace their ancestry back to the Sahaba, the companions of the Prophet of Islam, but we still keep shooting at them. That shows a lack of understanding, intolerance of other religions, or just plain evil. Still there are prophecies from 1,300 years ago and all that is happening now and that will happen will fulfill them. Some of the Afghans will be saved and will actually fight alongside Jesus when he returns. That's the upside to this whole miserable situation.
P.S.
"Zawahiri says that one of the most important features of the “prophetic method” is arbitration according to sharia law. Al Qaeda has consistently criticized Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s Islamic State for failing to arbitrate its differences with other jihadist groups in sharia courts. Anyone who fails to abide by sharia arbitration, Zawahiri argues, “is not following the prophetic approach” and is therefore “not even fit to be pledged to.”
Zawahiri cites a variety of Islamic texts, including hadiths, to emphasize his point that Muslims must be consulted before a caliph accepts their pledges of fealty. Neither the person who gives his allegiance “without consulting the other Muslims,” nor the man “to whom the pledge of allegiance was given” should be “supported, lest they both should be killed,” Zawahiri says, citing one text.
After working his way through additional Islamic tracts, Zawahiri argues that the community of worldwide Muslims, represented by those in power, has the right to select a caliph from among those fit for the leadership role. Baghdadi was not elected in such a manner, but instead by the people immediately “around him.”
Al Qaeda’s emir lists a number of other criteria that a caliphate must satisfy in order to be considered legitimate, arguing that the Islamic State falls short in each case. And Zawahiri closes with a warning for Baghdadi’s followers. He tells them not to fight any man unless they are certain that he is “an enemy of Islam and deserves to be fought.” It doesn’t matter if their emir (leader) commanded them to do so, Zawahiri says, as this excuse will not save them from Allah’s judgment should they spill Muslim blood without good reasons. "
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CONSPIRACY THEORY ON ISIS AND PUTIN IS AMONG THE THEORISTS!
THIS IS QUITE UNSETTLING:
Paris Attacks: William Engdahl Explains the Past, Present and Future of the War in Syria
ISIS financed from 40 countries, incl G20 members – Putin (FULL SPEECH)
Putin Tells Everyone Exactly Who Created ISIS
General Wesley Clark explains ISIS was created by U.S. Allies
7 countries in 5 years. Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran.
So how are we doing?
Remarks: Putin thinks that the US is funding Isis, providing weapons etc. Others say that Isis is just the next group to help the 2003 plan The Greater Middle East Project come to pass. If any of these things are true, the future for America and the world is darker than the ISIS flag. By the way in Islam, black flags and turbans are used during wartime, white flags and turbans during peacetime. Osama always wore a white turban, he wanted peace. Ayman al Zawhiri thinks that Isis "went rogue", splintered off from Al Qaida ideologically, operationally and otherwise and they disavow them.
So what is going to happen? There will be attacks by Isis, anytime, anywhere, any way they can. No government can protect against suicide bombers, car bombs. People will die, wars will be waged, freedoms lost in the name of safety and security. Remember the Jade Helm exercises this summer? Heavy military training exercises? They were getting ready for when the attacks come to US soil, and people DEMAND answers, and revolt. For now, I advise you take heed to the messages of Isis, because they will warn before they attack, and they have. Our response to that has been more bombings in Syria. Their answer to us and to France will be more bombings.
I will put up some of the prophecies from 1,300 years ago later on. But Muslims conquering Rome is one of them, just as Isis has threatened.
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Interview with Richard Barrett former head of the MI-6 (British Military Intelligence) on Isis.
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2015/11/isil-attacks-paris-151120132834566.html
11.22.15 Updates
OpParisIntel, the Anonymous online campaign against Daesh, said Saturday it had uncovered information about new terror plots “on Paris and the world” scheduled for November 22.
“All proof was submitted to official authorities all around the globe days ago,” the group said in a statement. “They have it and it is their responsibility to do something with it. But because they have not done anything with it yet and it’s almost the 22nd, we have matters into our own hands.”
“We only take the responsibility of warning civilians,” the statement added. The group also warned Daesh terrorists may be planning to launch an attack at a WWE professional wrestling event in the Philips Area in Atlanta on Sunday night.
http://presstv.ir/Detail/2015/11/22/438723/US-Daesh-attack-Paris-
Remarks: Isis did NOT threaten any attack on Atlanta, they threatened NYC (Times Square and Herald Square areas) as well as Washington, DC, and Rome and France - the threats to France were suicide bombers and car bombs.
Why hasn't Isis been defeated?
They started in 1997 as the al Qaida in Iraq wing. Osama praised Abu Musab al Zarqawi. I think there was a split between Ayman al Zawahiri and Osama, ideologically. Osama was aligned with the hardliners. The Iraqis are more hardline than any other group. They don't give in, give up or take no for an answer. Dr. Zawhiri gave his oath of allegiance to Mullah Omar and then again to Mullah Mansour, he is aligned with the Afghan Taliban not Isis.
Why are people still going to join them?
There are prophecies from 1300 years ago that when you see the black flags from Khorasan, go to join them even if you have to crawl over ice, for among them will be the Mahdi. The Mahdi is a rightly guided religious figure that will arrive before Jesus comes back. There will be wars and many things that happen when he comes back. Many youth are convinced this is the army, this is the time. Others have suggested that Isis is just trying to live out and create that prophecy, that they are not really THE army prophecied about. The army when it does come will be able to re-take Jerusalem and place it under Muslim conquest, which has not happened since the Ottoman Empire. Thus, this is a very exciting time.
How easy it is to get phony passports? There was so much outcry at the Congressional level about the Syrian refugees coming in, but that is not how they will come here. Refugees are vetted over 18-24 months before getting in the US. If they are coming here they will come thru the Visa Waiver program or on phony passports. That is the real threat Americans face, but that is only one of the issues.
How easy is it to get a phony passport in Syria? Very easy according to many.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/17/how-easy-is-it-to-buy-fake-syr ian-passport
Forgers in the Middle East are offering fake Syrian passports for as little as $250, days after it emerged that one of the Paris bombers may have entered Europe using false Syrian paperwork. The EU border agency revealed that it does not have the equipment to assess the authenticity of people’s identification documents in all of the Greek islands.
A Guardian journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan was offered fake Syrian passports by two separate smuggling rings, less than a week after French authorities alleged that a terrorist used a similar forgery to enter the Greek island of Leros, before taking part in an attack on the Stade de France in Paris. For just $250, one smuggler based in Sulaymaniyah promises to deliver a fake Syrian passport, ID card or birth certificate within 10 days. A second forger in Duhok says he can procure a passport, allegedly with the help of a Syrian embassy official, within four days – for a premium price of $2,500. Overworked officials who spoke no Arabic could have little idea who they were letting into Europe.
670,000 people have crossed the borders this year seeking asylum!
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/15/why-syrian-refugee-passport-fo und-at-paris-attack-scene-must-be-treated-with-caution
[Edited on 11/23/2015 by gina]
SYRIA/RUSSIA/ JABHAT al NUSRA
October 28th Jabhat al Nusra released a video titled Syria is the Graveyard of the Occupiers.
http://www.chechensinsyria.com/?p=24206
There are Chechnyans, Uzbeks, Crimeans, Tarstan fighters. Russians fighting alongside al Qaida groups in Syria. Al Qaida has relations with the Russians. For the most part they have stayed out of the war in Syria, except with smaller groups like al Nusra still fighting.
Russians are joining al Qaida affiliated groups, even Isis because of disgust with their own country. (poetry). This is not going to be any shock and awe short war in Syria.
http://www.chechensinsyria.com/?p=24155
