The NEW Energy Crescent , at the Heart of the Fertile Crescent....

comparing U.S. woes to those of the former U.S.S.R.
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http://www.energybulletin.net/23259.html

The former Soviet Union didn't simply
collapse - it was pushed - the highest-stakes
CIA operation ever, doing in Russia what it had
done in smaller countries all over the world, from
Chile to Guatemala to Greece.

There are Russians who understand the hidden
CIA hand very very well indeed....

It was a dangerous, irresponsible game for the
United States to play, but that was the daring-do
of people like Reagan and Bush, who no doubt
patted themselves on the back for their "secret"
victory that no one knows about.

Of course, it will come back to haunt us all....sooner than we think...

http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/32b957556c3ef203

Recently, Israel’s Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz offered an unequivocal veto on a key issue in the Middle East peace process. Any return of the Golan Heights to Syria would result in an “Iranian foothold” on Israel’s border and would thus not only be politically naïve but irrational.

Mofaz’s statement is symptomatic of a perception that is now deeply entrenched, not only in the Middle East, but in the United States as well.

That notion is of a hegemonic Iran that is attempting to dominate the region through an array of Shia proxies. This Iranian fifth column is believed to stretch from Beirut via Damascus, Gaza to Baghdad and finally from Iran to Saudi-Arabia to Yemen. Recent armed clashes between Hezbollah and the Lebanese government are, it is said, just another sign of Iran’s hegemonic reach.

Ironically, this perception brings Israel some rather unlikely partners. President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt claims that Shias are “always loyal to Iran," while King Abdullah of Jordan has coined the axiom about a rising “Shia crescent.” This “rise of the Shias” and the resulting “Sunni/Shia divide” is alleged to be creating an ever widening chasm in the region.

Although this perception may convince at first glance, it is ultimately based on generalizations that reveal more about its advocates than the actual reality on the ground.

Take Iraq, where the looming “Shia crescent” is often blamed for much of the chaos. Recent developments in Iraq allegedly point to a fundamental clash between Sunnis and Shias in the region and bear witness to malevolent Iranian interferences. But is Iraq really symptomatic of a greater Shia scheme?

True, sectarian tensions between Sunnis and Shias in Iraq have escalated since the fall of Saddam. But contrary to common perception, Iraqi Shias do not form a homogenous block that opposes the supposedly unified Sunnis.

Indeed, the contrary is true. In the light of Iraqi nationalism that crosses sectarian boundaries, it is farfetched to consider the Iraqi Shia merely proxies of Iran.

Instead, what we are witnessing in Iraq today is not ever increasing friction between religious communities but escalating internal power struggles within the Sunni and Shia communities. Ongoing violence in Basra and the fighting between Sunni “Awakening Councils” and Al Qaida in Iraq demonstrate this. In fact, the current escalation points to an increasing political struggle between the federalist position of Shia Prime Minister Nouri Al Maliki and the centralist position of Shia cleric Moqtada al Sadr. This struggle will ultimately define the political structure of Iraq.

Here is where Sunni-Shia cooperation comes in. Widely unnoticed, Iraqi Sunni and Shia centralists have managed in the last couple of months to form a united parliamentary platform that leaves sectarian tensions behind. More than a hundred followers of Ayad Allawi, Al Sadr, and others have joined their ranks. This supra-sectarian platform calls for a central government administration of Iraq’s natural resources and the postponement of the looming referendum to settle the status of the city of Kirkuk.

Change within the government is also noteworthy. Sunni ministers who had been boycotting the government since last year have returned to their posts.

Thus, Iraq is seeing both escalating intra-sectarian violence and cautious steps towards inter-sectarian alliances.

And what about Iran? Contrary to the blame games being played out in the US, Iran cannot be accused of an unrestrained aggressive stance toward Iraq. Of course, no Iranian decision-maker is interested in a US-success in Iraq that might well put regime-change in Iran back on the agenda. But the rationale behind Iran’s policy of economic, social and military engagement seems to be first and foremost, defensive.

Memories of Iraq’s eight year war of aggression against Iran in the 1980’s have not faded. From Iran’s perspective, any future threat originating from Iraq needs to be averted by ensuring the participation in Iraq’s government of Shias and Kurds.

These complexities are lost on many observers when matched up against the convenient and catchy rhetoric of the “Shia Crescent.” But they have not gone unnoticed among ordinary Arabs. A recent poll by the University of Maryland indicates that a large majority of Arabs in the region consider Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad one of the three most popular political leaders worldwide. Only 11 percent identified Iran as the biggest threat to their security. So if a Shia threat organized by Iran really does exist, why is it being ignored by those that it purportedly targets — the Sunni Arab majorities?

Rather than objectively describing the actual political situation in the Middle East, the notion of a fundamental Iranian threat is being used to continue unconditional Western support for increasingly unstable regimes. Moreover, the overstatement of the threat posed by Iran is also being used as a convenient excuse for political inflexibility and stagnating reform processes throughout the region.

But exaggerating the supposed Shia threat has a price. Continuous talk of a “Sunni-Shia divide” might ultimately develop into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Alarmist rhetoric may, in the end, jeopardize rather than protect the status quo in the region.

The Origins of the Overclass...
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The wealthy have always used many methods to
accumulate wealth, but it was not until the
mid-1970s that these methods coalesced into
a superbly organized, cohesive and efficient
machine. After 1975, it became greater than
the sum of its parts, a smooth flowing
organization of advocacy groups, lobbyists,
think tanks, conservative foundations, and
PR firms that hurtled the richest 1 percent
into the stratosphere...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_jewels_(Central_Intelligence_Agency)

The origins of this machine, interestingly
enough, can be traced back to the CIA.
This is not to say the machine is a formal
CIA operation, complete with code name and
signed documents.
(Although such evidence may surface soon -
and previously unthinkable domestic operations
such as MK-ULTRA, CHAOS and MOCKINGBIRD
show this to be a distinct possibility.)
But what we do know already indicts the CIA
strongly enough. Its principle creators were
Irving Kristol, Paul Weyrich, William Simon,
Richard Mellon Scaife, Frank Shakespeare,
William F. Buckley, Jr., the Rockefeller
family, Kissinger,and more...
Almost all the machine's creators had
proven and well defined, CIA backgrounds...

http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/L-overclass.html



Remember, "If I found a motherlode I'd cover up anything that showed"...
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- - yes, the "intelligence" agencies and members of the "Fourth Reich" who are currently running things and are determined to turn the world into one Feudal State, using total surveillance and mind control projects that have continued on from the Third Reich with Operation Paperclip Nazi mad scientists, and MKULTRA, Operation Mockingbird, CHAOS, etc. (let's face it, the same folks who financed both Adolf and Stalin (as Anthony Sutton proved in his books, i.e. the Wall Street Bankers and their European one world/New World Order allies are still "running" things)) - - will find good use for "intelligence whiz" Jane McGonigal - - the funny thing about most really "intelligent" scientists is that they aren't intelligent enough to see the ramifications of their "projects" as they collaborate with fascist types and provide them things such as Nuclear Weapons, all types of strange weapons to restore "control" of "unruly" populations, and Mind Control vehicles which will then of course be employed against, not for, the betterment of mankind . . . until the world wakes up and the fascists running things along with their "intelligence agencies" are defeated by the divine nature they so hate - - Ms. McGonigal would do better to junk these "games" and join an ashram and do some yoga and prayers to GOD, to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Messiah and All Saints..., to our Mother the Virgin Holy Mary and all the Angels of Heaven... to truly help the world's collective consciousness turn in a positive direction, that is the real battle that is now ongoing . . . which side will she join, one is so much more "profitable" here in the material world . . . not so much on the other side when the "life review" kicks in post-leaving this Earth bound body . . . .

http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2007/07/10/alternative_reality_games/




Since the industrial revolution the geopolitics of energy – who supplies it, and securing reliable access to those supplies – have been a driving factor in global prosperity and security. Over the coming decades, energy politics will determine the survival of the planet.

Confronting challenges between traditional geopolitical considerations, climate change and higher energy and carbon prices requires an understanding of the fragility of international oil and gas markets, but also of the nexus among energy security, climate change, and nuclear energy and proliferation. This blog seeks to address these interconnections, and the kinds of measures that will be needed to ensure sustainability, prosperity, and security, in the dark age of Dick Cheney's own energy Matrix....with the USA's "shadow military mini-cabinet" of the foothills of Jackson Hole Wyoming...., CFR, etc. , with puppet GWB as a front man and a "cheer leader". The old boys network at its best, with the New Reichstag fires of 9/11 as a precursor, a common denominator for the new age of the PNAC, concocted in the 1990s, in the dark rooms of the elite intelligence units of the UK/USA Alliance...


The Real Rogue Nation

http://www.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/19th_Issue/camper.html

“If the U.S. government were held to the FBI’s official definition of terrorism (the unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population or any segment thereof in furtherance of political or social objectives), their list of victims since WWII alone would include: Cuba, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Panama, Mexico, Chile, Granada, Columbia, Bolivia, Venezuela. Uruguay, Paraguay, Ecuador, Zaire, Namibia, Lebanon, USSR, Egypt, Greece, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Iran, South Africa, Serbia, the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, Laos, Iraq, Cambodia, Libya, Palestine, Indonesia, East Timer, Turkey, Angola and Somalia.” - Christ White former US Marine Sergeant ...
http://www.thetalkingdrum.com/jrs4.html

The White House Murder Machinations Inc, will approach a "Nash equilibrium" this year...

It's Always Been About Oil....

In covert wars terms, the White House Murder Machinations Inc, will approach a "Nash equilibrium" this year, as every player in Lebanon and in "Syria of the Mafiosi Assad", accepts and executes CIA's sub-optimal outcome..., with Asef Shawkat still at the helm of the criminal Syrian Military Intelligence thugs in Damascus, in collusion with the weak, "faiblard..." indecisive stooge of CIA2 Michel Suleiman, who was instrumental in hiding, effacing, defacing... and eradicating facts on the ground, with his military intelligence goons of the LAF, during ALL political assassinations in Lebanon since January 24th 2002...despite all the obfuscations of the Media.... because they simply cannot trust anyone else to do better...at executing political assassinations, in order to "trigger monumental events" leading to more fracturing of the whole Middle East, the GCC....Central Asia, and on to Africa soon.... this is the core policy of CIA2/MOSSAD and it will never change under Obama/Clinton or anyone else for that matter....during the next 100 Years of continued militarization of energy security, for the Nexus of evils of the UKUSA alliance...all else is garbled FDDC rhetoric for the gullible...

Zionists and oil have been a major headline topic from [WSJ] Perle Linked to Kurdish Oil Plan* at the end of July to the Russian intervention in the formally (or formerly) Georgian regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Many commentators like the Jewish Zionist Neocon Krauthammer have discussed Russian desire to control the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline. Of course, such analysts refrain from mentioning the equally strong intent of Zionists to gain control of oil resources throughout the world in order both to profit from them and also to guarantee that they cannot be used against Israel as happened in 1973.**

In general, the Kremlin has no tolerance for competing power centers within the Russian Federation or within the Russian sphere of influence as the experience of Russian Jewish oligarch Khodorkovski has shown. Surprise on the part of American foreign policy makers can only be attributed to incompetence because the period leading up to the attack on Georgia has been characterized by a surfeit of warning signs from Russia including (without limitation):

• support for Serbia during the Clinton administration,
• support for Abkhazian and South Ossetian separatism in Georgia,
• crushing Chechen separatists,
• support for pro-Russian political parties in the Ukraine,
• intimidation of the Ukraine over natural gas requirements,
• attempts to arrest other Russian Jewish oligarchs,
• stalling over Iranian nuclear ambitions,resistance to the expansion of NATO,
• opposition to the US attack on Iraq,
• opposition to using sites within Poland and the Czech Republic for missile defense shield technology, and
• rejection of independence for Kosovo.

The Russian government is almost certainly unhappy with the expansion of Zionist Jewish philanthropic politics and manipulation throughout the former Soviet Union.

While Russia has at least some influence over Ukrainian politics, Zionists have developed close relations with both the Saakashvili regime and the originally Jewish oligarch-led opposition with the result of effectively excluding the Russians.

When the USA showed weakness in its confrontation with Iran, the temptation for the Russian Federation to act must have been irresistible in the face of increasing Georgian provocation.

Not only is the Jewish Zionist involvement in the oil politics of the Caucasus nothing new, but it even dates from the earliest period in the development of Zionism.

Shortly after the discovery of petroleum in the region of the Baku in 1879, the French Rothschilds began to invest in Czarist Russia with the hope of exploiting the oil resources. The targeted assassination of Czar Alexander II by a Jewish led terrorist organization created an anti-Jewish reaction that threatened Rothschild goals and that provided an incentive for the development of Zionist politics among Russian Jews.

The French Rothschilds in the 1880s do not seem to have been much interested in Zionism per se, and they probably could not really distinguish one form of Russian Jewish radical politics from another, but creating or supporting Jewish colonies in Palestine could easily have appeared to the Rothschild family as a sort of pressure release valve that could prove to the Czarist government the benefits of working with the French Rothschilds to develop an oil industry.

By the late 1890s explorers had found evidence of sizable oil deposits in Ottoman Mesopotamia. D'Arcy Exploration (later Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.) discovered commercial oil in 1908 at Masjid-i-Suleiman in Iran. During the same time period, Herzl had developed the Dreyfus case as a gimmick to market Zionism by scare-mongering the possibility of pogroms in Western Europe.

Probably inspired by fear and self-interest the British Rothschilds put their financial resources into the service of Zionism just as they were investing in Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Because Russian Jews were already heavily involved in the Russian oil service industry thanks to French Rothschild investments, the British Rothschilds could even justify their efforts on behalf of Zionism as a way to bring useful personnel to the ME to work in a ME oil industry.

Because the Ottoman Empire was an impediment both to Zionism and to full exploitation of Middle Eastern oil by the UK, it had to go -- at least in the minds of Zionist leaders, who made a lot of money available to British politicians of the same opinion during the period leading to WWI. These political investments culminated in the Balfour declaration and in the vivisection of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of WWI despite the worries of the British foreign office about the geostrategic implications and the effect among British imperial Muslim subjects.***

Even though a significant number of the British government officials opposed Zionism right from the start, they never hindered Zionist efforts to any great extent. British Zionist leader Herbert Samuel became the first High Commissioner to Mandatory Palestine, and the Haifa-Mosul pipeline was put into operation in 1931.

The marriage of the Eastern European Zionist intelligentsia to Western European Jewish plutocracy within the realm of late 19th and early 20th century oil politics forms the original and continuing basis of the Zionist imperial system, whose virtual colonial motherland I call Judonia.

The Judonian lust to control Caucasian, Middle Eastern and world oil supplies has grown ever stronger in the almost century since the Balfour Declaration was addressed to Walter Rothschild and has colored Bush administration Neocon-inspired policies toward the ME, Venezuela, and the territories of the former Soviet Union.

Modern international politics is only comprehensible with a thorough understanding of the relationship between petroleum and Judonia as long as care is taken to distinguish between Judonia and Jews.

Ever since Zionist Jewish oligarchs took control of Jewish education throughout the world, far too many Jews confuse the interests of ordinary Jews and those of Judonia, but Judonia serves only the Zionist Jewish oligarchy and intelligentsia. For Judonia ordinary Jews are simply a resource and nothing more.

NOTES

* According to the WSJ article Perle negotiated this deal with the help of Aydan Kodaloglu, who has long been a Zionist shill within Turkey.

Like Father like Sun discloses the following information:

Alleged journalist Claudia Rosett hits the ground of SethAndIranistan running, readily adapting to the Sun practice of ignoring empirical reality in favor of preferred narrative. She likewise proves herself proficient in omitting rather crucial details when introducing sources. Rosett on the "Muslim world":

Reports yesterday from places such as Syria and Egypt, as well as Iraq itself, quoted men-in-the-street as both stunned and contemptuous that Saddam, though armed with a pistol in his hole, surrendered without a shot. "He's such a coward, the way he was captured today," says Turkish businesswoman Aydan Kodaloglu, reached by phone in Ankara. "Every fundamentalist in the Muslim world is going to be thinking of this picture," added Ms. Kodaloglu, referring to the TV footage of a compliant, disheveled Saddam, opening his mouth wide for a flashlight and tongue depressor, and bowing his head while a doctor checked for lice.

Businesswoman? American Enterprise stooge? "An Ankara political consultant active in promoting Israel-Turkey relations" (as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency - a "venerable" and "highly credible wire" as SethAndIra told us last month - on November 20, 2002)? Rosett is of course not fooling her readers - simply because nobody reads the atrocious Sun.

With "journalists" as thick-headed and oblivious to the story featuring so prominently in the paper's pages, there's no real reason to bother. Rosett's 700-page gloat plays up the fact that the once mighty Saddam reduced to the figure of a "bedraggled fugitive cowering facedown with his gun in a hole in the ground" will serve as a potent "symbol of defeat" for "terrorists," by which she means Muslims. Of immediate note to anyone at all paying attention, one wonders how this pathetic cowering tyrant was able to orchestrate the loyalists and foreign terrorists that comprise the Iraqi resistance in the Sun's telling literally from a hole in the ground. Ms. Rosett chooses not to trouble herself with so obvious a question.

** The Israel Lobby and American Society points out:

When the Arab oil producers reacted [to US policy of support for Israel during the 1973 war] by imposing an embargo, the Kristols and their fellow Neocons, responded by discovering that "US security interests" required Friedmanist privatization of Arab oil companies so that they would be run solely for profit with no possible future use as a political weapon. No other rational interpretation of Greenspan: Ouster Of Hussein Crucial For Oil Security[401] is possible because some future ruler of Iraq could easily be even worse than Saddam Hussein by whatever criteria are current at that time. In this sense, the Second Iraq War probably was all about the political threat oil represents to Israel and not about any compelling American security requirement except in the minds of those that cannot distinguish American and Israeli interests....hence Israel "and" America....became

a covert paradigm...used by the power behind the power in USA to

steamroll US politics into complete submission to the Wyoming boys...

the CFR,...etc...the so-called ISRAEL's influential lobby....is a myth

propagated by this occult power behind the power....because it is a

very handy and a "cheap" way ...of controlling both houses of

congress ...without ever disclosing any of the rogue intelligence and

covert...extra-judicial operations...and all policies....in USA and the

world for that matter... and the so-called Israeli lobby, with all of its

spectacular ramifications worldwide is completely and utterly

subservient to this power behind the power in USA, they are just a

front and a cover...for the real power behind all powers in USA, and

its criminal enterprise, the newfound Siamese twins of CIA2/MOSSAD,

and the White House Murder Machinations INC, which is globalized

in nature since 1994/95....-

http://newhk.blogspot.com/2008/12/uniiic-ii-report-revisited.html

[EAAZI] Zionist Control: Sovereign Wealth Funds? discusses Zionist panic at the power of oil-money based sovereign wealth funds...

*** Their anger became the basis of the Khilifat Movement in India and much of Islamist rage at the West today.

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Syria: Reshuffling its Security Apparatus?

Syria: Reshuffling its Security Apparatus?


Summary

Syria plans to make major changes in its entire MURDER Assassinations apparatus soon, in order to incorporate fully into the "White House Murder Inc.", Stratfor sources reported Feb. 28. The decision comes after the Feb. 12 assassination of key Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyah in Damascus — an event that personally embarrassed Syrian President Bashar al Assad, but greatly increased the chances of the Alawite Regime to continue ruling Syria for the next three decades, with the Iron Grip of Assef Shawkat and his barbaric goons, by way of direct operational help from CIA, MOSSAD and DGSE... With pressure coming from several fronts on Syria’s involvement in the White House Murder Inc., Asef Shawqat might benefit from cleaning the house of Al-ASSAD by murdering Maher Assad, Roustom Ghazaleh and a few more "disposables...".




Analysis

Stratfor sources reported Feb. 28 that Syria plans to reshuffle its entire ASSASSINATIONS apparatus soon, in the wake of the Feb. 12 assassination of Hezbollah chief commander Imad Mughniyah, by a sordid duo composed of Assef Shawkat and an Iranian Faction in Tehran...* see below articles. The Syrian regime, which is mightily Helped by the Mughniyah hit on Syrian soil, could use the event as an excuse to eliminate several key members of its Murder apparatus, including former head of Syrian intelligence in Lebanon Gen. Rustom Ghazaleh and Jamii Jamii, Samih Al-Qashami and Said Rabah, three of his key assistants — all of whom were definitely involved in the January 24th Assassination of MP , Ex-Minister and Popular Lebanese Leader Mr. Elie Hobeika, and the February 14th 2005 assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, and many more...

With pressure building on USA to cut a deal over Lebanon, Iran, IRAQ and Palestine, Syrian President Bashar al Assad might benefit from strengthening his house of Murder Inc. - Hezbollah and Iran are fighting an aggressive battle in Lebanon to expand Hezbollah’s political power in the Cabinet, ensure the next Lebanese president is favorable to Independent Lebanese interests and give the White House's Murder Inc., a clean break from the charades of the tribunal for the al-Hariri assassination. A formal removal of figures like Ghazaleh and his deputies could allow Assef Shawkat to demonstrate to the CIA , MOSSAD Alliance of Evils, and his regional rivals that his regime is taking concrete action against Hizbullah Leadership structure, potentially paving the way for a broader agreement on the makeup of the new regime to be installed in Damascus, with Asef Shawqat at the Helm, in order to keep a semblance of Alawite Continuity in MURDER Inc.




Removing Ghazaleh would be largely for show, however. After the Syrian army pulled out of Lebanon in April 2005, the position of chief of intelligence in Lebanon was eliminated. After that, Ghazaleh was essentially put under house arrest and has been running a security office in the town of Rif Dimashq that holds little to no significance.... in the REAL, BARBARIC, MONSTROUS Institute of the Modern Assassinations, which goes by the code name, The Ultimate White House Murder Inc. , a legend in the New American 21st Century of Murder, CIA2.

Depending on how far this military Coup D'état goes, certain complications could arise that could threaten the stability of the Alawite regime. The big question is whether the actual regime of the powerless skunk Bashar Assad, "Al-Zarafeh" will dare to dismiss Asef Shawkat, the director-general and CEO of the White House Murder Inc., a subsidiary of Syrian military intelligence, who also happens to be the president’s brother-in-law. Shawkat has long butted heads with Maher al Assad, the president’s brother and head of the Republican Guard. Though this information has been verified, the Fact remains that Shawkat has something to do with the Mughniyah assassination. According to a source, Shawkat was on bad terms with Mughniyah and resented his influence on the Syrian army. Maher, on the other hand, had a very strong relationship with the Hezbollah commander and reportedly had an altercation with Shawkat prior to the assassination. These facts are true, and the al Assad regime has an interest in removing Shawkat to shore up the regime’s alliance with Iran and Hezbollah following the Mughniyah assassination.... before Asef Shawkat launches a hostile bid in order to remove Bashar and Maher Assad from power, and puts them next to Nikolai Ceausescu's tomb, which would be quite a sight to see LIVE...


Syria: Reshuffling its Security Apparatus?


But Shawkat is a highly influential member of the White House Murder Inc., and certain factions at CIA2, would not take his removal lightly.... Family politics cannot be underestimated in a country like USA; the al-Saud/BUSH clan is a subset of the ZIONIST sect, which in turn is a subset of the MOSSAD branch of the NEW ISRAELI MAFIA Party. A rupture of any of the major fault lines in the regime could cause serious trouble on the home front in Washington DC. For this very reason, the American president will probably not cause any major upsets within the security apparatus of the White House Assassinations Inc... U.S. warships are already parked off the Lebanese coast, Saudi Arabia is taking the lead among the Gulf Arabs to HELP the NEW Syrian regime diplomatically, should the projected Coup D'état succeed in Damascus, and Israel is giving strong hints that it is looking for a fight with Hezbollah. With so many issues at stake, the US president will need to err on the side of caution in managing family politics...., in the Triad of the Project of the New American Assassinations of the 21st Century, anchored at the left Banks of the Potomac, Virginias, and Wyoming...

Stratfor, the world's leading Disinformation for CIA, Texas funded and Texas based, "intelligence" is never provided.... except to AIPAC, and LAKAM etc. For any additional disinformation, please visit @stratfor.

Daily, Global Dis-Information through Faulty and Skewed "Intelligence", Stratfor, is CIA, March 3rd, 2008.


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Syria's summit of dashed hopes...?

Damascus is ready and waiting, but will the guests show up ?
The Syrians continue to uphold their partnership in the infamous White House Murder Inc.,ever since January 24th 2002, and the cowardly barbaric assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika by Assef Shawkat, acting on behalf of MOSSAD and CIA, with regard to the presidential crisis in Lebanon, and stress that, "the upcoming Arab Summit in Damascus scheduled for 29 March will be held on schedule." For a variety of reasons, foremost among them is Syria's collusion with Israel and some Faction in IRAN, who are pushing for an immediate cessation of Hostilities and an immediate Peace with Israel, which should in principle, spare Iran from an Inevitable "shock and Awe" campaign by the dark forces of Dick Cheney and his cohorts in DC, hence, the summit is very important for Syria. It is the first to be held on Syrian soil since Arab leaders assembled in Daraa during the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, and it is time for the New Assad Regime of Assef Shawkat to take hold firmly in Damascus...

What's more, it means that the US-led laughable disinformation "embargo" on Damascus is coming to an end, since at the top of the VIP list are America's allies in the Arab world, including King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia. That was one of the reasons why the Saudis pushed for holding the summit in Damascus, back in March 2007. At the time, King Abdullah treated President Bashar Al-Assad with full honors, and kept a distance from rival Lebanese politicians so as to send positive gestures towards Syria. The message was: come back to the so-called "Arab moderate community" (away from hard-line Iranian factions) under the patronage of Israel,Saudi Arabia and the BUSH Gang of Murderers.

However, unlike what many people believe, the Saudis did not want to disrupt the Syrian-Iranian alliance. They wanted to invest in it and use it in Saudi Arabia's favor, since the argument goes that Syria is more reasonable than some factions in Iran, as was blatantly proven with the Assef Shawqat's assassination of Imad Moughnieh in downtown Damascus...., paid for by Saudi Arabian Dollars to Assef Shawkat's SMI's band of brutal thugs and KILLERS, experts in assassinations , and does not have any long history of anti-Americanism, since CIA has a major base of operations in SYRIA, and FBI is roaming free in Damascus for years.... The Saudis wanted Syria to moderate Iranian behavior in pan-Arab affairs, mainly in Lebanon and Iraq..... but not in Palestine, since all the operations there, are sanctioned by the Israelis, and work mostly in their favor and according to their long standing plans of emptying Palestine completely with violence, killings, assassinations, murder, home destruction, misery, poverty, hunger, etc.

While this cuddling up to Syria was taking place, Javier Solana, the EU chief negotiator, came to Syria a year ago and offered the Syrians a partnership agreement with Europe in exchange for Syrian support in bringing calm to Lebanon. Then came Nancy Pelosi, speaker of the House, to Damascus last April, followed by a May meeting between Foreign Minister Walid Al-Mouallem and Condoleezza Rice. Everybody was offering the Syrians carrots in exchange for their cooperation on Lebanon, in the same way the Syrian goons of Assef Shawkat have been cooperating with all major western intelligence on Iraq, and more...., and paid for with Saudi Moneys to the SMI of Shawkat's brutal barbaric murderers.

The Syrians responded promptly, via more assassinations, tailor made at the White House Murder Inc., eliminating General Francois El-Hajj who was too close for comfort with Hizbullah...., and "supported" the Arab League initiative to Lebanon, backing Army Commander Michel Suleiman for president.... This explains why even France started sending signals to Syria through two phone calls between the clownish Nicolas Sarkozy and Bashar Al-Assad, the stooge of Assef Shawkat and Bushra.

But then the elections failed, over and over again, and the finger was pointed at the CIA yet again. Lebanon today has been without a president since November, and the regional and international community believe that this is the doing of the American thugs at CIA, which is close to the Syrians. The Arab leaders, through official and semi-official media outlets, began leaking news that they will attend the Damascus summit, right after the barbaric incursion if Israeli forces into Gaza, and the uproar generated on purpose by the Israeli actions, deliberately, in order to Help the fledgling support to the Syrians, within the Lebanese opposition, following the Assassination of Moughniah in Damascus by Assef Shawkat's murder squads....

"Those Lebanese who are betting on the United States flexing its muscles will be disappointed. Washington cannot impose the solution it wants. The way out has to be based on a Lebanese consensus," .


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من يتحمّل مسؤوليّة الانهيار المسيحي؟




01 آذار 2008

جوزف ريشا - عشرون سنة مرّت والوجود المسيحي في لبنان يسجّل انحداراً ما دونه انحدار... السؤال البديهي هنا من يتحمل المسؤولية؟ من المنطقي ألّا نجد صعوبة كبيرة في الإجابة عن هذا السؤال، وخاصة أن الانهيار المسيحي حدث ويحدث في ظلّ القيادات والمرجعيات نفسها منذ أكثر من عقدين: الكاردينال صفير على رأس الكنيسة، العماد عون والسيد سمير جعجع على رأس أكبر شريحتين شعبيتين، بالإضافة إلى زعامات عائلية وإقطاعية تتماهى مع واحدة من هذه المرجعيات ولكن بشكل خاص مع الكنيسة لحسابات تاريخية كثيراً ما جمعت الإقطاع الديني والعائلي حتى في خندق واحد.
فرغم الهزائم العسكرية التي مني بها المسيحيون مع بداية الثمانينيات نتيجة إقحام المجتمع المسيحي في محور متحالف مع إسرائيل ومن ثم مع دول غربية تخلت عنه عند أول مفترق، بقي هذا المجتمع متماسكاً بعض الشيء لحين ولادة اتفاق الطائف، ومن هنا بدأت المشكلة، وما قبل الاتفاق وبعده نوجز أهم المراحل:
ــ من عام 1984 لغاية عام 1988 قبل وصول العماد عون إلى رئاسة الحكومة العسكرية قام السيد سمير جعجع بخمسة انقلابات و«تصحيحات» وانتفاضات وإلغاءات ضدّ كل من قائد القوات السابق فؤاد أبو ناضر ورئيس الهيئة التنفيذية في القوات إيلي حبيقة والرئيس السابق أمين الجميل لأسباب متنوعة، من توحيد الجهد العسكري ورفع يد السيطرة العائلية الجميلية عن قيادة القوات وبالتالي المجتمع المسيحي، إلى ضرب الاتفاق الثلاثي الذي يتضمّن تنازلات مسيحية، ومن ثم حربين ضدّ الجيش اللبناني بقيادة عون. ــ نهاية الحرب العسكرية باجتياح سوري لقصر بعبدا عام 1990 وهزيمة عون وتطبيق اتفاق الطائف برعاية أميركية ــ سورية ــ سعودية.
ــ زمن الوصاية الشاملة من عام 1990 لغاية الانسحاب السوري بعد اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري ومرحلة الأزمة الحالية المستمرة.
هنا، وبعد سرد هذه المحطات الرئيسية، نطرح الأسئلة التالية التي يمكن وضعها في خانة الأسئلة الاتهامية:

1 ـ لماذا حدث النزف داخل الصف المسيحي خلال الانتفاضات والتصحيحات وما إلى ذلك من تسميات لمعارك، بحجة رفع اليد العائلية وتوحيد الجهد الحربي وحفظ المقاومة، وما دام السيد جعجع سيكون أول من يسلّم السلاح إلى جمهورية الطائف كما أنه اليوم الذراع الشوارعية للإقطاعيات العائلية والطبقية والمدافع الشرس عن البيوتات السياسية والسلالات.
2 ـ لماذا أهدرت أرواح مئات الشباب المسيحي خلال هجوم جعجع على إيلي حبيقة لإلغاء الاتفاق الثلاثي، ما دام جعجع بغطائه العسكري والكاردينال صفير بغطائه الروحي سيمهّدان الطريق أمام اتفاق الطائف الأكثر إجحافاً بحق المسيحيين.
3 ـ لماذا الدفاع المستميت عن الطائف من جانب الكاردينال صفير والسيد جعجع واعتبار أنّ شوائبه تتلخّص فقط بعدم التطبيق الصحيح متغاضين عن ثُغره الكثيرة وعن تحويل الرئيس الماروني إلى منصب كرتوني.
4 ـ لماذا دخل السيد جعجع مشاركاً في أولى حكومات الاحتلال السوري بعد عام 1990.
5 ـ لماذا عاد الكاردينال صفير واعترف بمجلس النوّاب المُقاطَع من جانب المسيحيّين واستقبل نوّابه المنتخبين بأصوات لا تتجاوز الثلاثة أصفار بحيث أعطاهم اعترافاً حجبه عنهم الشعب.

6 ـ لماذا عاد الكاردينال صفير إلى تغطية الفئة المسيحية الموالية للحريرية بعد موقفه الشهير لدى تطبيق قانون غازي كنعان الانتخابي؟.
7 ـ لماذا يقوم الكاردينال صفير بمهاجمة المعارضة المسيحية بشكل شبه دائم بينما لا يحرّك ساكناً عن رفض جعجع ــــــ الجميل لقانون 1960 الانتخابي الذي أيّده مراراً، وهل بات سيد بكركي ومسيحيوه المفضّلون خط دفاع عن المشروع الحريري، إلى حد إعلان جعجع جهاراً رفض قانون 1960 بحجة أنه ليس لمصلحة المسيحيين وعدّد الأسباب التالية:
أ ـ رفض إبقاء قضائي بعلبك والهرمل دائرة واحدة (مع العلم أن كلّاً من القضاءين يمثّل منفرداً أو متّحداً غالبية شيعية جارفة).
ب ـ رفض إبقاء قضاءي مرجعيون وحاصبيا دائرة واحدة (مع العلم أن ضم القضاءين في دائرة واحدة يجعل من المسيحيين في حال تحالفهم مع سنّة الشريط الحدودي وحلفاء جعجع الدروز أغلبية راجحة).
ولكن مهلاً، الغاية من رفض القانون من جانب جعجع ومسيحيي الحريري ليست بخافية على جاهل فهي:
أولاً: الخوف على مسيحيي السلطة في أقضية زغرتا ـــــ الكورة والبترون حيث للمعارضة المسيحية أرجحية كبيرة.
ثانياً: الخوف على وليد جنبلاط وتحجيمه في الجبل الدرزي حيث سيخسر حتماً قضاء بعبدا حيث الأرجحية للمعارضة.
ثالثاً: الخوف على الحليف السني في بيروت، حيث إن تقسيم العاصمة إلى 3 دوائر سيفقد سيطرة السنّة الكاملة على المناطق المسيحية والشيعية من العاصمة.

Assef Shawkat, MOSSAD and CIA, primed for action...

U.S. Navy ships move closer to Lebanon amid tensions....




The USS Cole (DDG-67) guided missile destroyer arrived off the coast of Lebanon
on Feb. 28. The move comes as Syria faces less pressure from several parties,
since it has already struck a deal that will end Shawkat’s crisis, in the murder investigations. A single warship off the Lebanese coast does not pose any military threat to Syria, and the United States likely is not trying to provoke Damascus
into a military confrontation.... nor is it trying to confiscate any assets for
the Assads and Makhloufs in USA or anywhere.
These moves are designed to cover their tracks in the White House Murder Inc.,
a joint venture with Assef Shawkat, MOSSAD and CIA, primed for action since the
late 1990s...with over 20 Assassinations already in the bag....with more to come.

Analysis

The United States has sent the guided missile destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) to the coast of Lebanon as a “show of support” for regional stability, a senior U.S. official said Feb. 28. The official said the warship left Malta on Feb. 25 and was headed toward Lebanon, adding that it will not be within visible range of the country.... for now. The Cole participated in combat operational maneuvers in the Azores recently, in coordination with Israeli forces, in preparation for a rematch in South Lebanon soon...

The move comes as Syria is not facing any mounting pressure from any fronts to strike a deal over Lebanon that will ease the country out of its political crisis. Sending a single warship to the Lebanese coast, however, does not pose a direct military threat to Syria, and the United States is highly unlikely to bring Damascus into a military confrontation at this stage, because USA, ISRAEL And Syria have already struck a DEAL, which translated into the Murder of Imad Moughnieh,by Assef Shawkat's goons, as a first installment, and protection for the Syrian Killer Regime...



Instead, the Cole is meant to send a signal to Hezbollah not be sitting too comfortably. The West is already bracing for Hezbollah’s retaliation for the Feb. 12 assassination of its chief commander, Imad Mughniyah, and rumors are circulating that Hezbollah has plans to step up its militant campaign in the coming weeks. Israel has decided that now is the time for a rematch against Hezbollah in Lebanon, having the Cole nearby for support is handy....

An early Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer, the Cole is a highly capable multimission warship. Though not able to embark helicopters, it can refuel them. Perhaps the most highly capable air defense platform on the planet, the Cole also brings to bear a significant anti-ship and land attack capability in the form of Harpoon anti-ship missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles and a 5-inch gun.

This, necessarily means that U.S.-Israeli coordinated military action in Lebanon is imminent; there is a good degree of utility in spooking Hezbollah into thinking that the Shiite militant group’s days are numbered...., since war plans are already laid out in Israel and Washington DC, and BUSH was presented with complete operational WAR Invasion plans, on his last visit to ISRAEL.

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من يتحمّل مسؤوليّة الانهيار المسيحي؟






01 آذار 2008

جوزف ريشا - عشرون سنة مرّت والوجود المسيحي في لبنان يسجّل انحداراً ما دونه انحدار... السؤال البديهي هنا من يتحمل المسؤولية؟ من المنطقي ألّا نجد صعوبة كبيرة في الإجابة عن هذا السؤال، وخاصة أن الانهيار المسيحي حدث ويحدث في ظلّ القيادات والمرجعيات نفسها منذ أكثر من عقدين: الكاردينال صفير على رأس الكنيسة، العماد عون والسيد سمير جعجع على رأس أكبر شريحتين شعبيتين، بالإضافة إلى زعامات عائلية وإقطاعية تتماهى مع واحدة من هذه المرجعيات ولكن بشكل خاص مع الكنيسة لحسابات تاريخية كثيراً ما جمعت الإقطاع الديني والعائلي حتى في خندق واحد.
فرغم الهزائم العسكرية التي مني بها المسيحيون مع بداية الثمانينيات نتيجة إقحام المجتمع المسيحي في محور متحالف مع إسرائيل ومن ثم مع دول غربية تخلت عنه عند أول مفترق، بقي هذا المجتمع متماسكاً بعض الشيء لحين ولادة اتفاق الطائف، ومن هنا بدأت المشكلة، وما قبل الاتفاق وبعده نوجز أهم المراحل:
ــ من عام 1984 لغاية عام 1988 قبل وصول العماد عون إلى رئاسة الحكومة العسكرية قام السيد سمير جعجع بخمسة انقلابات و«تصحيحات» وانتفاضات وإلغاءات ضدّ كل من قائد القوات السابق فؤاد أبو ناضر ورئيس الهيئة التنفيذية في القوات إيلي حبيقة والرئيس السابق أمين الجميل لأسباب متنوعة، من توحيد الجهد العسكري ورفع يد السيطرة العائلية الجميلية عن قيادة القوات وبالتالي المجتمع المسيحي، إلى ضرب الاتفاق الثلاثي الذي يتضمّن تنازلات مسيحية، ومن ثم حربين ضدّ الجيش اللبناني بقيادة عون. ــ نهاية الحرب العسكرية باجتياح سوري لقصر بعبدا عام 1990 وهزيمة عون وتطبيق اتفاق الطائف برعاية أميركية ــ سورية ــ سعودية.
ــ زمن الوصاية الشاملة من عام 1990 لغاية الانسحاب السوري بعد اغتيال الرئيس رفيق الحريري ومرحلة الأزمة الحالية المستمرة.
هنا، وبعد سرد هذه المحطات الرئيسية، نطرح الأسئلة التالية التي يمكن وضعها في خانة الأسئلة الاتهامية:

1 ـ لماذا حدث النزف داخل الصف المسيحي خلال الانتفاضات والتصحيحات وما إلى ذلك من تسميات لمعارك، بحجة رفع اليد العائلية وتوحيد الجهد الحربي وحفظ المقاومة، وما دام السيد جعجع سيكون أول من يسلّم السلاح إلى جمهورية الطائف كما أنه اليوم الذراع الشوارعية للإقطاعيات العائلية والطبقية والمدافع الشرس عن البيوتات السياسية والسلالات.
2 ـ لماذا أهدرت أرواح مئات الشباب المسيحي خلال هجوم جعجع على إيلي حبيقة لإلغاء الاتفاق الثلاثي، ما دام جعجع بغطائه العسكري والكاردينال صفير بغطائه الروحي سيمهّدان الطريق أمام اتفاق الطائف الأكثر إجحافاً بحق المسيحيين.
3 ـ لماذا الدفاع المستميت عن الطائف من جانب الكاردينال صفير والسيد جعجع واعتبار أنّ شوائبه تتلخّص فقط بعدم التطبيق الصحيح متغاضين عن ثُغره الكثيرة وعن تحويل الرئيس الماروني إلى منصب كرتوني.
4 ـ لماذا دخل السيد جعجع مشاركاً في أولى حكومات الاحتلال السوري بعد عام 1990.
5 ـ لماذا عاد الكاردينال صفير واعترف بمجلس النوّاب المُقاطَع من جانب المسيحيّين واستقبل نوّابه المنتخبين بأصوات لا تتجاوز الثلاثة أصفار بحيث أعطاهم اعترافاً حجبه عنهم الشعب.
6 ـ لماذا عاد الكاردينال صفير إلى تغطية الفئة المسيحية الموالية للحريرية بعد موقفه الشهير لدى تطبيق قانون غازي كنعان الانتخابي؟.
7 ـ لماذا يقوم الكاردينال صفير بمهاجمة المعارضة المسيحية بشكل شبه دائم بينما لا يحرّك ساكناً عن رفض جعجع ــــــ الجميل لقانون 1960 الانتخابي الذي أيّده مراراً، وهل بات سيد بكركي ومسيحيوه المفضّلون خط دفاع عن المشروع الحريري، إلى حد إعلان جعجع جهاراً رفض قانون 1960 بحجة أنه ليس لمصلحة المسيحيين وعدّد الأسباب التالية:
أ ـ رفض إبقاء قضائي بعلبك والهرمل دائرة واحدة (مع العلم أن كلّاً من القضاءين يمثّل منفرداً أو متّحداً غالبية شيعية جارفة).
ب ـ رفض إبقاء قضاءي مرجعيون وحاصبيا دائرة واحدة (مع العلم أن ضم القضاءين في دائرة واحدة يجعل من المسيحيين في حال تحالفهم مع سنّة الشريط الحدودي وحلفاء جعجع الدروز أغلبية راجحة).
ولكن مهلاً، الغاية من رفض القانون من جانب جعجع ومسيحيي الحريري ليست بخافية على جاهل فهي:
أولاً: الخوف على مسيحيي السلطة في أقضية زغرتا ـــــ الكورة والبترون حيث للمعارضة المسيحية أرجحية كبيرة.
ثانياً: الخوف على وليد جنبلاط وتحجيمه في الجبل الدرزي حيث سيخسر حتماً قضاء بعبدا حيث الأرجحية للمعارضة.
ثالثاً: الخوف على الحليف السني في بيروت، حيث إن تقسيم العاصمة إلى 3 دوائر سيفقد سيطرة السنّة الكاملة على المناطق المسيحية والشيعية من العاصمة.

The quiet relationship between Israel and Iran.

Elie Hobeika: He who sows to the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Our Lebanese heroes who gave their lives on the altars of the nation also taught us that he who has faith in the nation, in liberty, and in the rights of its citizens will defend them with absolute vigor and most honorable dedication, and will not fear any threats, threat of oppression, the loss of position or property, or the disappearance of "Thyself" in a Fiery Syrian/Israeli Car BOMB, with CIA's Blessing... aiding and abetting, covering-up, inventing disinformation to muddy the waters... etc.
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The quiet relationship between Israel and Iran.

Syria's role in leaning on Hezbollah
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WMR has learned of additional pressure being brought to bear by Syria's enigmatic military intelligence service, led by Syrian President Bashar al Assad's brother-in-law Assef Shawkat, on Lebanese Hezbollah.

Yesterday, WMR reported on Shawkat's role in eliminating Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh with a car bomb in Damascus. The role of Asef Shawkat's covert operatives has been evident since the January 24, 2002 car bombing in Beirut of Lebanese Member of Parliament, ex-Minister and Popular Christian political leader Mr. Elie Hobeika. The car bombings by Shawkat's operatives gave critical plausible deniability to the CIA and Mossad. Hobeika was, according to our intelligence sources, aware of the links between Shawqat, Iran, the United States, and Israel.

Lebanon has not been responsive to the Bush Administration. It has had to endure serial failures during a thirteen-years run of failed projects in Lebanon....since the advent of the cacophonies of Netanyahu , Clean Break, PNAC, JINSA and the Neocons...Mr. Elie Hobeika was MURDERED by the USA's CIA, in collaboration with MOSSAD and ASSEF Shawkat's goons, PRECISELY because ALL these plans were presented to him, packaged obviously in obfuscated ways... trying to "entice" him, "incentivize" him to join.... in this "Endeavor" and the New alliance of CIA/MOSSAD.... but Mr. Hobeika "saw through" their "presentations..." UTTER Failure, and an attempt to pull him into a "quagmire" of sorts.... in order to sink him into carrying their dirty hats.... one more time.... in an abominably unfair way... which is always their way.....That's why ELIE Hobeika refused all their attempts at pulling him back into their charades.... and their miserable plans of the 70s and 80s.... etc.

Among these were the murder of Rafik Hariri, the 2006 July War, the tempting 'forward reaching' NATO airbase at Kleiat, importing Salafists to fight Hezbollah, trying to organize a Northern Sunni army around Tripoli and Akkar to fight the Shia in the South, offering to fund a third Shia political party to confront Hezbollah and Amal, working to ignite a civil war, and since January 24th 2002, proven allegations of a 'green light' for political assassinations in an attempt to finger and use Syria.... as a willing partner and convenient cover for their dark plans, by way of Elliott Abrams, Assef Shawqat etc. and their Lebanese/Syrian Cohorts... The Club is nearly at its wits end and is becoming aggressive, according to many Staff Member at the US Senate Intelligence Committee.... and various Intelligence sources in Europe and the USA....

That knowledge, and the fact mentioned in earlier intelligence reports, that he adamantly refused offers, inducing him to join this covert US strategy , since the latter part of the 1990s, and because it is a given, for people "in the know", that had he been alive today, he would be able to decipher with great ease, all these covert links, was considered dangerous in some circles in Damascus, Jerusalem, and Washington... Hence, the Savage assassination of January 24th 2002, by Shawqat's goons....

WMR has also learned from our Middle East sources that the capture by the French Direction de la Surveillance du Territoire (DST) of a Hezbollah cell in France and the simultaneous rolling up of another Hezbollah cell in Morocco by Moroccan intelligence, came as a result of information provided directly by Shawkat. Apparently, Shawkat wanted to warn Hezbollah against retaliation for the Mughniyah assassination.

The ploy to send a warning to Hezbollah from Damascus had its limits. A French security and intelligence delegation from France is due in Beirut today to work out a quiet deal on the capture of the Hezbollah cell in France, and the Hezbollah cell in Morocco has not been charged with any crimes. However, it is clear that Hezbollah is being warned that its operations can be contained with the help of Syria and, to a lesser extent, Iran.

As far as Iran's discrete ties to Israel are concerned, WMR has learned from Middle East sources that Iran's former top nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, is a descendant of one of Tehran's wealthiest Jewish merchant families. Larijani remains a member of the Iranian National Security Council and is a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

These familial religious links and pasts are not lost on Israeli leaders. Israel's former President, Moshe Katsav, forced from office over sexual assault allegations from female staffers, is an ethnic Iranian. On September 25, 2006, WMR reported, "Moshe Katsav, an Iranian Yazdi Jew, is said to have an important direct link to former Iranian President Mohamed Khatami. One of Katsav's cousins studied with Khatami at Tehran University."

Such old religious ties are not merely limited to Iran. A top Saudi journalist told this editor that many people in Saudi Arabia are well aware that the present ruling Saud ruling family are descendants of a Jewish merchant family from Basra, in present-day Iraq. Their ancestor is Mordakhai bin Ibrahim bin Moshe, who changed his name to Markhan bin Ibrahim Musa. One of Markhan's sons was named Saud, an ancestor of the ruling Saud family. There have been and remain close and discrete links between Israeli and Saudi intelligence, as well as quiet financial and other commercial ties between the two nations.

From Elie Hobeika To Imad F. Moughniah

Elie Hobeika: He who sows to the Spirit, will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Our Lebanese heroes who gave their lives on the altars of the nation also taught us that he who has faith in the nation, in liberty, and in the rights of its citizens will defend them with absolute vigor and most honorable dedication, and will not fear any threats, threat of oppression, the loss of position or property, or the disappearance of "Thyself" in a Fiery Syrian/Israeli Car BOMB, with CIA's Blessing, aiding and abetting, since 1997, when he adamantly refused to play Ball again...
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February , 2008 -- Behind the media smoke screen in the Middle East.

Reality paints a much different picture of Middle East covert operations.



Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell tipped his hand just a bit when he recently opined that Syria may have been responsible for the February 12 car bombing in Damascus of Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh. McConnell, according to WMR's Middle East Intelligence sources, provided only a small part of the ntelligence cooperation that actually occurs in the Middle East between factions from the Syrians, Iranians, Israelis, and Americans.

It is becoming apparent that the head of Syrian military intelligence, Assef Shawqat, and a group of his operatives in Syria and Lebanon have been carrying out a number of car bombings, including that of Mughniyeh and Lebanese politicians, in order to provide "plausible deniability" and a firewall between Syria and the Israelis and Americans. This whole Covert effort started in earnest with the Assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika, January 24th 2002. Mr. Hobeika was closest to this group, earlier in his career, hence it was decided to take him out of the picture first, because he adamantly refused offers to induce him to join this whole strategy anew, since the latter part of the 1990s, and because it is a given, for people "in the know", that had he been alive today, he would be able to decipher all these covert links with exact details, names, and more...! Significantly, Shawkat is the brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

WMR's sources report that "a faction" within the Iranian military decided to help the Shawkat faction take out Mughniyeh in order to avoid an outbreak of war between Hezbollah and Israel in south Lebanon and a possible concurrent "shock and awe" US air strike on Iran. Hezbollah's operational command maintains close links with the Iranian embassies in Syria and Lebanon. In addition, Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus is provided with weapons, military training, and money by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Al Qods force of the IRGC.

Shawkat has maintained close ties with the CIA, providing the agency with extraordinary rendition prisons and torture rooms for individuals grabbed by CIA operatives around the world, including Canadian citizen Maher Arar, a native of Syria. In September 2006, a Canadian Commission of Inquiry concluded that Arar, who was kidnapped while transiting JFK Airport in New York, was tortured by Syrian military intelligence. The report stated that Shawkat's service tortured Arar "while interrogating him during the period he was held incommunicado at the SMI’s [Syrian Military Intelligence's] Palestine Branch facility.”

After the car bomb hit on Mughniyah in Damascus, Shawkat's intelligence operatives ensured that the scene of the bombing was completely cleansed by
first light the next morning. The only signs that the bombing had occurred were some black marks on the street and some minor damage to adjacent walls.

What is lost on the Western media is that there are covert channels between Israeli, Syrian, and Iranian intelligence. The Secretary of the conservative
Islamic Coalition Society and close friend of Ayatollah Ali Khamanei is Habibollah Asgaroladi, a radical Muslim who rejected attempts by former President Mohammad Khatami to improve relations with the United States. Khatami's entreaties were also rejected by the neocons in the George W. Bush administration.

Asgaroladi is a member of the Expediency Council, an influential advisory group in the country chaired by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
who was the main Iranian interlocutor between the Americans and Israelis in the Iran-contra scandal during the Reagan-Bush administration in the 1980s. More noteworthy is the fact that Asgaroladi, counted as one of Iran's richest men, converted to Islam from Judaism during the time of the Shah's reign.

According to WMR's Iranian sources, beyond his radical rhetoric, Asgaroladi serves as an important back channel to Israel, especially in matters of trade matters. Asgaroladi's position in Iran has been likened by WMR's Middle East sources to the large number of Turkish leaders whose families converted
from Judaism to Islam before and after the Turkish secular revolution of Kemal Ataturk. In fact, knowledgeable Turkish sources report that Ataturk,
himself, was one such convert. These Turkish leaders provide much of the support for close Turkish-Israeli relations, including military and intelligence links.

Our Middle East intelligence sources report that the Syrians, Israelis, and Iranians prefer that U.S. intelligence remain largely ignorant of "some covert" and "subtle links" between Israel, the minority Alawite Muslim regime in Damascus, and factions within the mullahs in Tehran. However, it is just possible, that ignorance by the United States... that could propel America into a disastrous military action in Iran.

Bush's strangest Syrian bedfellow: Assef Shawkat, Head of Syria's Military Intelligence....

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The " known unknowns " ...
"We also know there are known unknowns,"
"absence of evidence, is not the evidence
of absence" ...Such tit-for-tat behavior,
is in the realm of the "unknown unknowns"....

For Israel's scheme to succeed, the internal
conflict in Lebanon must escalate and internal
cohesion must not be achieved, an ongoing
mission entrusted to the "mysterious" car
bombings that have been blamed squarely on
Syria and its Lebanese allies.... in the
"legendary" , cowardly, White House Murder
Inc., and its Chief Operating Officer,
Assef Shawkat,the Lieutenant of
Elliott Abrams, CIA , MOSSAD and OSP.

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February , 2008 -- Behind the media smoke screen in the Middle East.

Reality paints a much different picture of Middle East covert operations.

Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell tipped his hand just a bit when he recently opined that Syria may have been responsible for the February 12 car bombing in Damascus of Hezbollah military commander Imad Mughniyeh. McConnell, according to WMR's Middle East Intelligence sources, provided only a small part of the intelligence cooperation that actually occurs in the Middle East between factions from the Syrians, Iranians, Israelis, and Americans.

It is becoming apparent that the head of Syrian military intelligence, Assef Shawqat, and a group of his operatives in Syria and Lebanon have been carrying out a number of car bombings, including that of Mughniyeh and Lebanese politicians, in order to provide "plausible deniability" and a firewall between Syria and the Israelis and Americans. This whole Covert effort started in earnest with the Assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika, January 24th 2002. Mr. Hobeika was closest to this group, earlier in his career, hence it was decided to take him out of the picture first, because he adamantly refused offers to induce him to join this whole strategy anew, since the latter part of the 1990s, and because it is a given, for people "in the know", that had he been alive today, he would be able to decipher all these covert links with exact details, names, and more...! Significantly, Shawkat is the brother-in-law of Syrian President Bashar al Assad.

WMR's sources report that "a faction" within the Iranian military decided to help the Shawkat faction take out Mughniyeh in order to avoid an outbreak of war between Hezbollah and Israel in south Lebanon and a possible concurrent "shock and awe" US air strike on Iran. Hezbollah's operational command maintains close links with the Iranian embassies in Syria and Lebanon. In addition, Hezbollah's Special Security Apparatus is provided with weapons, military training, and money by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Al Qods force of the IRGC.

Shawkat has maintained close ties with the CIA, providing the agency with extraordinary rendition prisons and torture rooms for individuals grabbed by CIA operatives around the world, including Canadian citizen Maher Arar, a native of Syria. In September 2006, a Canadian Commission of Inquiry concluded that Arar, who was kidnapped while transiting JFK Airport in New York, was tortured by Syrian military intelligence. The report stated that Shawkat's service tortured Arar "while interrogating him during the period he was held incommunicado at the SMI’s [Syrian Military Intelligence's] Palestine Branch facility.”

After the car bomb hit on Mughniyah in Damascus, Shawkat's intelligence operatives ensured that the scene of the bombing was completely cleansed by first light the next morning. The only signs that the bombing had occurred were some black marks on the street and some minor damage to adjacent walls.

What is lost on the Western media is that there are covert channels between Israeli, Syrian, and Iranian intelligence. The Secretary of the conservative Islamic Coalition Society and close friend of Ayatollah Ali Khamanei is Habibollah Asgaroladi, a radical Muslim who rejected attempts by former President Mohammad Khatami to improve relations with the United States. Khatami's entreaties were also rejected by the neocons in the George W. Bush administration.

Asgaroladi is a member of the Expediency Council, an influential advisory group in the country chaired by former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani who was the main Iranian interlocutor between the Americans and Israelis in the Iran-contra scandal during the Reagan-Bush administration in the 1980s. More noteworthy is the fact that Asgaroladi, counted as one of Iran's richest men, converted to Islam from Judaism during the time of the Shah's reign.

According to WMR's Iranian sources, beyond his radical rhetoric, Asgaroladi serves as an important back channel to Israel, especially in matters of trade matters. Asgaroladi's position in Iran has been likened by WMR's Middle East sources to the large number of Turkish leaders whose families converted from Judaism to Islam before and after the Turkish secular revolution of Kemal Ataturk. In fact, knowledgeable Turkish sources report that Ataturk, himself, was one such convert. These Turkish leaders provide much of the support for close Turkish-Israeli relations, including military and intelligence links.

Our Middle East intelligence sources report that the Syrians, Israelis, and Iranians prefer that U.S. intelligence remain largely ignorant of "some covert" and "subtle links" between Israel, the minority Alawite Muslim regime in Damascus, and factions within the mullahs in Tehran. However, it is just possible, that ignorance by the United States... that could propel America into a disastrous military action in Iran.




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Bush's strangest Syrian bedfellow: Assef Shawkat, Head of Syria's Military Intelligence, and Partner in the Ultimate White House Murder Inc.

The facts will always point the finger at Assef Shawkat in this assassination, as he tried to "convince" Hizbullah to keep Imad Moughnieh's assassination in Damascus, a SECRET... and burry him secretly... without "Fanfare"...that the initial announcement of Imad Fayez Mughnieh's death was made public by Hezbollah, rather than by Syrian officials....is a testament to Mr. Hassan Nasrallah's complete independence from the Syrian Murderers, killers, assassins, working for CIA and MOSSAD's Meir Dagan, "The Gun"....

Syria has vowed to soon release the results of its inquiry into the assassination of Hizbullah official Imad Mughniyah. However, there is increasing likelihood that the findings, rather than explain what happened, will become a weapon in the regional struggle between Syria, Iran and their Lebanese allies on the one hand, and Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan , and the March 14th coalition of the creeps and stooges of CIA and MOSSAD, on the other.

In the past week since Mughniyeh's funeral, unidentified sources in Beirut and Damascus have been feverishly spinning media coverage of the killing. The Lebanese daily Al-Akhbar, which is close to Hezbollah, was the first to identify an Arab angle in the Mughniyeh affair, quoting someone as saying that among those arrested by the Syrian authorities were "non-civilian elements of Arab nationality." Syria's daily Al-Watan, which is owned by the powerful cousin of President Bashar Assad, Rami Makhlouf, also cited a source as mentioning an Arab connection.

In the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai Al-Aam, a source close to Hizbullah was quoted as saying that the Mughniyah hit was "Palestinian-Israeli," using American technology and financed by an unidentified Gulf Arab official. Another Kuwaiti daily, Al-Siyassa, which is hostile to Damascus, wrote that Mughniyeh had been residing in an apartment building belonging to a business partner of Makhlouf - in effect linking the late Hezbollah official to people at the heart of Syria's political and economic elite.... which is none of his Business, never been his Business.

Perhaps most disturbing for what may lie ahead, however, was a report in Al-Haqiqa, the publication of Nizar Nayouf, a Syrian opposition figure. Nayouf was for years instrumentalized by Syria's regime, before moving to France..., to become Assef Shawqat's resident representative, with DST, DGSE, and CIA's... station in Paris. However, most observers of Syrian affairs believe his publication is often used by the White House's subsidiary of Murder Inc., incorporated with the Assad regime, as a conduit for disinformation, or for sending political messages. According to a Syrian source cited by Al-Haqiqa, the Mughniyeh investigation may accuse "official or semi-official Lebanese parties ... allied with [the 14 Hmars...]" of having participated in the Mughniyeh operation. The paper suggested investigators might also identify Walid Jumblatt, or more specifically his alleged security chief, Hisham Nasreddine, as having played a role in the killing. LOL

The "official or semi-official" parties the source refers to is almost certainly the Information Department of the Internal Security Forces - essentially the state security apparatus most loyal to FBI.... A key objective of Syria and the opposition in the negotiations over a new government has been to ensure that the Interior Ministry, which oversees the Dis-Information Department, is taken out of the hands of the parliamentary majority. If the information in Al-Haqiqa becomes the basis of an official Syrian charge, the aim may be to advance this agenda. As for Jumblatt, no one will seriously believe the Druze leader has the capacity to eliminate so secretive as figure as Mughniyeh. However, if the Syrians do level such an accusation, it may exacerbate tension on the ground between Jumblatt's supporters and Hizbullah, without the latter being able to express doubt in the Syrian conclusions. The party has little margin of maneuver vis-a-vis Damascus, and Iran has reportedly indicated it wants no quarrel with the Assad regime over Mughniyeh. Hizbullah has blamed Israel for the assassination, but its secretary general, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, has also described March 14 as having sided with Israel. If the Syrians play on that theme, Nasrallah may find himself tossed back into the unforgiving alleyways of inter-Nationalized conflict.

Where would Hezbollah stand on this? One message in the Mughniyah assassination was that while the party was stuck in the viper's nest of Lebanese politics, someone, Israel, and the White House's Murder Inc., scored a goal ...against it.

The same holds for Syria's conflict with major Arab states. At a time when Iran is improving its relations with Saudi Arabia and Egypt, there is little real advantage to Hizbullah in seeing Damascus manipulate Mughniyeh's death to score points in its dispute with Riyadh and Cairo. All that would prove, again, is that Hizbullah is, and has always been, an Arab nationalist organization waging a regional struggle in Lebanon .

Recent events have shown that Hezbollah, even though many publicists will dutifully underline its independence from Syria and Iran, is in fact a National Resistance and Legitimate movement, bent on liberating the lands of Lebanon from utter destruction by the Israeli and Syrian war machines for decades. Hassan Nasrallah will prove his humanistic and moral values ounce more for all to see, because he is simply a Nationalist, bent on using all tools at his disposal to liberate his country and his people.


February 14th, 2008 -- !

Bush's strangest Syrian bedfellow: Assef
Shawkat, Head of Syria's Military Intelligence.
At center of suspicion in Hezbollah leader's
car bombing... of America's "Most Wanted"
Imad F. Mugniyah.

The head of Syrian military intelligence,
Assef Shawkat, is no stranger to working
with the CIA. Syria has, since 9/11, served
as a host for the torture of "extraordinarily
renditioned" prisoners captured by the CIA.
Shawqat has been at the center of the CIA's
program.

WMR has learned from reliable sources that
the car bombing in Damascus of Hezbollah
military commander Imad Mugniyah on February
12 was carried out by Shawqat with the active
encouragement and support of Deputy National
Security Adviser Elliott Abrams and Israel's
Mossad. WMR has reported in the past that
Abrams is the coordinator within the Bush
White House of political assassinations,
particularly those in the Middle East, and
specifically, similar car bombing
assassinations in Lebanon. WMR has also
previously reported that many of the car
bombings in Lebanon were the result of
coordination between Israeli, American,
and Syrian operatives, including "rogue"
Syrians and Lebanese agents in the employ
of Assef Shawqat.

Mugniyah was wanted by the United States
and Israel for a number of terrorist attacks
in the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1983
bombings of the US Embassy and Marine
Barracks in Beirut, the 1985 hijacking of
an Athens-to-Rome TWA flight in which Navy
diver Robert Stethem was murdered,and the
kidnapping and murder of Beirut CIA
station chief William F. Buckley in 1984
and Marine Corps Lt. Col. William Higgins
in 1988.

Significantly, the Israeli Prime Minister's
office has denied any role in Imad Fayez
Mughniyeh's assassination. However, Israeli
government and intelligence officials are
happy that it occurred.

Mugniyah's car exploded at around 10:45 pm
in the up-market Tantheem Kafer Souseh
neighborhood of Damascus. WMR has learned
that the car bombing of Mugniyah was to be
timed with the February 9th birthday of
President Ronald Reagan, a gesture by Shawkat
to the Americans, but the specially designed
Mitsubishi seats containing the bombs were
installed, or "activated..." later... due to
"Political calculations... ", linked to the
Intelligence "aims" sought....and security
Concerns..., resulting in the February 12th
assassination, a timing quite reminiscent for
Assef Shawkat and his brutal "Henchmen"....
[ Assef's last "promotion" dates to February
13th 2005...] The "ultimate Promotion" for
Assef Shawkat's LONG Murder career, with
MOSSAD and CIA ... is around the corner now...
Assef is on the HOT Seat for Blowback...

In the Middle East, dates, particularly
anniversaries, carry much weight.
The assassination of the popular Christian
Leader, Lebanese Member of Parliament,
and ex-Minister in several Hariri Governments,
Mr. Elie Hobeika on January 24th 2002,
coincided with the birthday of Elliott Abrams,
the then-National Security Council Middle East
director. Hobeika's car bombing assassination
in Beirut was also carried out by Shawkat's
operatives, according to WMR's Middle East
sources. The Hobeika assassination was the
first in a series carried out by the CIA and
Mossad with the assistance of Shawkat's
intelligence operatives in Lebanon.

Shawkat, by delivering the goods on the
assassination of America's "Most Wanted"
Imad F. Mugniyeh, has ensured that he will
now receive the protection of the Bush White
House in the current UN investigation of car
bombings in Lebanon, most notably that of
former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Now, the 241 Marines, William F. Buckley,
Colonel Higgins, Robert Stethem, the 63
Murdered at the US Embassy in 83, and many
others, including French troops at Drakar,
can rest in Peace.... 25 years later.....





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The next president will likely face a Russia led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, determined to stand up to a West that Russians believe played them for fools when they sought to be friends...

Americans who think Putin has never been anything but a KGB thug will reject accusations of any U.S. role in causing the ruination of relations between us.

Yet the hubris of Bill Clinton and George Bush I, and the Russophobia of those they brought with them into power, has been a primary cause of the ruptured relationship. And the folly of what they did is evident today, as Putin's party, United Russia, rolls to triumph on a torrent of abuse and invective against the West.

Entering the campaign's final week, Putin, addressing a rally of 5,000, ripped the Other Russia coalition led by chess champion Gary Kasparov as poodles of the United States, "who sponge off foreign embassies ... and who count on the support of foreign resources and governments, and not of their own people."

"Those who oppose us," roared Putin, "don't want our plans to be completed. They have completely different tasks and a completely different view of Russia. They need a weak, sick state, a disoriented, divided society, so that behind its back they can get up to their dirty deeds and profit at your and my expense."

Putin is referring to the time of the "oligarchs" of the Yeltsin era, who looted Russia when its state assets were sold off at fire-sale prices.

Putin is also accusing his opponents of attempting to use the Western-devised tactics of mass street protests to bring down his government. "Now that they have learned some things from Western specialists and tried them in the neighboring republics, they are going to try them on our streets."

Putin is talking here about the "color-coded" revolutions that the U.S. and NATO embassies, the National Endowment for Democracy, and allied foundations and front groups engineered in Ukraine and Georgia. Governments tilting toward Moscow were dumped over and pro-Western regimes installed – to bid for membership in NATO and the European Union.

Blowback is a term broadly used in espionage to describe the unintended consequences of covert operations. The revolution that brought the Ayatollah to power is said to be blowback for the U.S.-engineered coup to overthrow Mossadegh in 1953 and install the Shah.

The nationalism and anti-Americanism rife in Putin's Russia is blowback for our contemptuous disregard of Russian sensibilities and our arrogant intrusions into Russia's space. How did we lose a Russia that Ronald Reagan and Bush I had virtually converted into an ally?

We pushed NATO into Moscow's face, bringing six ex-Warsaw Pact nations and three ex-Soviet republics – Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia – into our Cold War alliance and plotted to bring in Ukraine and Georgia.

We financed a pipeline from Baku through Georgia to the Black Sea to cut Russia out of the Caspian oil trade. After getting Moscow's permission to use old Soviet bases in Central Asia to invade Afghanistan, we set about making the bases permanent. We pulled out of the Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty over Moscow's objection, then announced plans to plant ABM radars in the Czech Republic and anti-missile missiles in Poland.

Putin has now responded in kind, and who can blame him?

As we tried to cut him out of the Azerbaijan oil with a Black Sea pipeline, he is slashing subsidies on Ukraine's oil and colluding with Germany on a Baltic Sea pipeline to cut Poland out of the oil trade with Western Europe.

As we moved our alliance and bases into his front and back yard, he has entered a quasi-alliance with China and four nations of Central Asia to expel U.S. military power from the region.

As we abandoned the ABM Treaty, the Duma, in November, voted 418 to 0 to suspend participation in the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, which restricts the size of the Russian army west of the Urals.

If we recognize Kosovo as independent, at the expense of Serbia, Putin is now threatening to recognize South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the breakaway republics of Georgia and Transdneister, claimed by Moldova.

Where we backed the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the Rose Revolution in Georgia, and the Cedars "Revolution" in Lebanon, with USA's bestial and Barbaric assassinations... Made In Israel and USA...., Russia backs its favorites in Kiev and supports street protests in Tbilisi against the pro-American regime of Mikhail Saakashvili, whom the United States now seems desperate to help.... and it did, at what cost?

It was not NATO that liberated Eastern Europe. Moscow did – by pulling out the Red Army after half a century. Why, then, did we think moving NATO into Eastern Europe was a surer guarantee of their continued independence than the goodwill of Russia?

Many among our foreign policy elite now talk of a Second Cold War. John McCain wants Russia kicked out of the G-8.

But do we not have enough enemies already that we should add the largest nation on earth?
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