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2). Leur porter contradiction à chaque occasion.
3).Constituer un Fonds de Solidarité pour faire face à leurs persécutions judiciaires et autres.
4).Constituer un Collectif d'avocats.
5). Organiser un Réseau d'Alerte pour informer nos Compagnons et venir en aide aux victimes.
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7).Mettre en lien Le Portail anti-totalitaire : http://uneparolevraie.unblog.fr/2008/08/20/portail-anti-totalitaire/
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Dr. Moro: Iraqi Resistance Succeeded and Spoiled Occupation Projects
HEYET Net talked to the Egyptian writer and Islamic thinker Dr. Muhammad Moro about the role of the Association of Muslim Scholars leading role in correcting what surrounds Iraqi resistance from multi-defamation campaigns.
The Islamic thinker Dr. Mohammed Moro clarified the performance of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) as performing satisfactorily and that the reason for this is the approach adopted by the resistance which managed to publish resistance thought in the world.
He said that the war in Iraq is a crusade war, and pretexts used by America's invasion and occupation of Iraq was obvious to us that this is just a false pretexts and arguments…
The Islamic thinker Dr. Mohammed Moro clarified the performance of the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (AMSI) as performing satisfactorily and that the reason for this is the approach adopted by the resistance which managed to publish resistance thought in the world.
He said that the war in Iraq is a crusade war, and pretexts used by America's invasion and occupation of Iraq was obvious to us that this is just a false pretexts and arguments…
The Islamic thinker pointed out that victory in Iraq is really very close insaallah (God willing). What happens in the US arena developments reflect the defeat of Bush Administration and his project based in Iraq…
The following is the text of the interview:
HEYET Net - Five years of the American occupation of Iraq have passed... How do you view the pretexts and arguments of the U.S.A for invading Iraq? What are the real reasons for the invasion for your views?
Dr. Moro - In fact, the pretexts invoked by the U.S. were clear to us that this is just a false pretexts and arguments. This point of view of all observers and other observers with passion, the pretexts used by both Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction later on was proved with recognition by the Americans and the security services which used this pretext as a hoax…
Even reports which were provided to the Americans were acknowledging that Iraq does not possess such weapons…
Iraq does pose a threat neither to the West nor to the Arab States; therefore, this argument was lost before it starts, and then officially felt recognized by several security devices after occupation…
This was alone sufficient to trial on lying charges of Bush to the world in general and especially to the American public. His charges led the result of this invasion based on false pretexts killing hundreds of thousands, arresting tens of thousands and displacing millions of Iraqi people...
The second argument that America wanted to topple dictatorship…
Here is strange paradox in American policy; such is the same administration who is supporting dictators who take presidencies and dressed in military uniforms for decades... There is no need to mention names... But most of this is that the Americans are the ones who make dictatorships.
There is an argument used by some analysts that the reason– in their point of views - behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq was to control Iraqi oil. From a theoretical point of argument it is incorrect, which of course explains part of the theme of the reason that stands behind the occupation of Iraq, it does not explain the whole subject. True, America aspires to take advantage of Iraqi oil and control it; however this argument alone is not the reason for the invasion of Iraq!
The war in Iraq is a crusade; its proof is what George Bush said and the important word by his mouth, then returned and apologized to them.
What concerns us here, in fact, is to know what U.S. funds were expensed in Iraq because of this war. At official estimates, total expenditure reaches to three trillion dollars, and in the informal estimates, as some experts have pointed out that the war has cost nearly ten trillion dollars...
The second estimate on the amount of ten trillion dollars is not covered by Iraq's oil production, and it is not possible to be covered by the plundering of the U.S. war in Iraq from oil and other...
The situation can be calculated what Iraq is now producing from oil, and oil prices in global markets. To consider production revenues and earnings from dividends, and to assume that the Americans steal half of it in comparison how much money the U.S. administration expensed in its war, they will know that earning amount is worth nothing.
Here I can not deny that America has economic interests from its war and occupation of Iraq, but these interests do not really commensurate with what America paid from its budget, dead wounded, run-down military system, weakness of the army and fatigue of American society...
Thus the interpretation of the war on the grounds that it is because of oil is partial explanation; however this explanation is true, but does not include the topic in all aspects...
HEYET Net - How do you assess the Iraqi situation now under the suffering of the people from mass murder, torture and displacement?
Dr. Moro - Crime are committed by Americans in Iraq and by the Arab silence or impotence and betrayal of some political forces in Iraq.
HEYET Net - What about the raids, arrest campaigns and attacks against innocent people?
Dr. Moro - This confirms to us the fact that we are at the sectarianism projects, therefore it is duty for national forces in Iraq with all denominations to unite and to take the responsibility, and they must adopt a one position to end this situation.
HEYET Net - How do you view the mass displacement campaigns experienced by Iraq, and the number of displaced people at home and abroad, perhaps more than four million?
Dr. Moro - This is a tragedy reflecting another fact that reveals the falsehood of American claims allegedly came to provide the appropriate environment for freedom and democracy...
The result of displacement is very normal for the occupation of the American Jewish crusade.
HEYET Net - Why do sectarians try to displace Iraqis, particularly following displacement method based on identity?
Dr. Moro - Certainly displacement took a sectarian approach, and those who are pursuing a sectarian project have not completed this sectarian project except displacing the other community. Here I mean the Shiite politicians who have taken this sectarian approach as a path where upon they are walking. Thus nothing happens to whom they want only to displace Sunni people, for example. It is what happened in most regions of the South, many areas of Baghdad...
Moreover they will be able to control those areas where the other party abandoned to them for establishing a state or Shiite federalism in the south...
So there are some sorts of sectarianism and ethnic cleansing in Iraq which can not be ignored in any way!!
However, it is certain that all of these things will disappear in the coming days, and the truths will come clearer…
HEYET Net - Dr. you always called the resistance as "a beautiful light in the dark tunnel" How would you rate the performance of the resistance over the five years of occupation?
Dr. Moro - In my view the declination of the Islamic civilization increased, then fixed, then slipped. The issue of descending Islamic tendency has too many signs and in fact is Islamic reality...
This tendency has not been broken except with the Iraqi resistance...
As well as Lebanese, Palestinian, Afghan, Somali and other resistance movements...
But a great merit of this advancement is the Iraqi resistance, although it is now at difficult circumstances..
Even the Iraqi resistance was at a time of significant declination “the beautiful light in dark tunnel"
Thus, which stopped the U.S. imperialistic, colonialist and expansionist projects is the Iraqi resistance..
In other words, if the early outbreak of the Iraqi resistance at this time would not have erupted; Islamic Ummah will have been in case of retrogression that is wearisome so far!
HEYET Net - Does this mean you believe that the resistance has succeeded in foiling the U.S. project?
Dr. Moro - Yes. Iraqi Resistance succeeded in foiling the U.S. project with all certainty it caused a coup in the Islamic world and gave the ummah new hope and the value it deserves...
I say: the resistance was able to spoil the American project and its down; if there was not the Iraqi resistance, the resistance over the other countries in the multinational dimension would not spread. Because it gave hope to the people for having broken the prestige of the United States and preventing it from achieving its objectives in Iraq.
HEYET Net - What are the real causes of breaking of American administration in Iraq?
Dr. Moro - Since decades I have always been mentioning in my writings - and this has in some of by books for reference - I was saying: the true volition will prevail. The smallest village in the world can defeat America. The faith and the will are stronger than the war planes and the tanks. Human being is stronger than the technology, and we - Muslims - will not be defeated except inside of us!!
I have published a book entitled "we fought and won" 24 years ago. This book simply says: If we fought, we won, but if we decide to surrender under the pretext that the enemy is stronger than us, we can not face a war of aggression; then we defeated!!
This is true word by saying of Allah Almighty: “O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. (The Holy Qur’an. 5:51) Then says: “And thou seest those in whose heart is a disease race toward them, saying: We fear lest a change of fortune befall us. And it may happen that Allah will vouchsafe (unto thee) the victory or a commandment from His presence. Then will they repent of their secret thoughts. (The Holy Qur’an. 5:52)
Therefore the logic of our enemy is stronger than us is an expression of “We fear lest a change of fortune befall us”!
HEYET Net - Dr, in light of these facts, many of which I have spoken... What is the future of the Iraqi resistance?
Dr. Moro - I think the Iraqi resistance is based on what previously decided and will not be defeated from outside. I think it will be defeated from within the country. .They will be victorious with help of God Almighty...
Thus, the chances of success lies in its analysis of the political situation in a good analysis, in addition to the need for analysis from logical perspective towards its owners, and faith perspective towards the enemy... They will succeed without a doubt.
HEYET Net - Turning to issue regarding Iran - the U.S. – Iraq.. To notice the intersection between American and Iranian projects In Iraq…Is this real or fictitious intersection in your opinion?
Dr. Moro - No, it is true. We must present a form from accurate understanding forms in this regard, there's no doubt the Iranians have a Shiite project and trying to take advantage of the Shiites in the world for its implementation. It is no doubt this project is a danger to the ummah, but it is less serious than the American project; having different possibilities, that is.
The second thing is that the Shiite project cannot be implemented except compromise with the United States. Therefore, if Iran wants to the implementation of the Shiite project, it will not be completed only to be a deal with the Americans!!
The Iranians do not mind them - apparently - from holding any deal with the Americans. This leads us to know an important fact, namely that America is mindless and wants to give Iran any package relating to Iraq, however in return for the latter deal which does not satisfy it is a strategic deal...
The problem of the Americans is that they do not want to give an appropriate reciprocity for all nations...
Although I think there are internal problems in Iran close to the case of dissolution. Therefore it is close to the case of defeat from the inside, and it will fell with the Shiite project which Iran is seeking to achieve it!!
We must know the Iranian project in Iraq is performed by some followers of Iran who owe their absolute allegiance to it, like the Shiite Islamic parties at least, who entered the current political arena under way in Iraq...
Thus they are implementing the policy serves to their critical Shiite project...
In return, it necessary for Sunnis to refuse the American Project and to resist against the Shiite Project with taking into account of it that is not serious than of American-Zionist expansionist project...
Of course, we exclude some other Shia Resistance groups like Hezbollah who develop a strategy to resist the Israeli aggression and the U.S...
Hence, the common denominator is to meet resistance. Therefore our position is clear over Hezbollah as a resistance faction to take a liberation basis for foiling the Zionist and American projects..
I know the issue is complex, but it is the policy. No doubt we should be thinking in the framework of our imagination, and there should be a separate position from the other party. This is exactly what made us to reject the Shiite project and at the same time to support Hezbollah in Lebanon...
HEYET Net - How do you view the Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs? How it could be confronted?
Dr. Moro - I do not underestimate the importance of Iranian interference, and Iran has territorial ambitions in Iraq ..
If you resisted to the U.S. project, and united efforts to resist to America and confront with the American project, I believe this will itself face with the Iranian project ..
I mean: which is stronger now, the American army or the Iranian army? Of course the U.S. Army is militarily stronger...
If the occupation of Iraq by Iran is apparently completed, then the resistance will crush them like it did to the other that is stronger than Iran: the U.S. army...
But I assure you that if only Iran had not publicly intervened in Iraq. I am confident that Iraq will receive significant support from the Arab states to resist because of the seriousness of the Iranian project...
HEYET Net - U.S. elections at the door... What do you expect from it regarding the issue of Iraq?
Dr. Moro - I think the issue as follows: there is a decision of U.S. strategic withdrawal from Iraq and this decision - which will be taken to preserve the dignity of the U.S.- must be taken at the framework of “it is not defeated”. They called it perfect withdrawal on the one hand..
On the other hand, there are domestic reasons which will be imposed on an American withdrawal. Obama was nominated and stood with him by the institutions and parties those who want to withdraw from Iraq; of course, this is the case of his win...
It means American institutions decided to withdraw from Iraq!!
And decided Obama to succeed!! The success of Obama means: The United States decided to withdraw from Iraq, and stay in the war against terrorism...
HEYET Net - How do you evaluate the project sponsored by the opposition forces against the occupation of Iraq?
Dr. Moro - According to my information, I am inclined to the strong opposition project to the occupation, including the Association of Muslim Scholars. We support it in her correct position..
We do not have anything sacred and infallible, but the performance of AMSI so far is satisfactorily. The most important reason for this is that AMSI has a resistance approach and was able to publish resistance thought in the world...
The Association of Muslim Scholars and its information tools was able to correct what surrounded the Iraqi resistance from campaigns of defamation by multi-dimensional directions..
I think they have played a leading role in this direction; to establish its satellite channel, to publish newspaper, to open websites, and various releases are of clear proof over the maturity of its cultural project.
HEYET Net - Do you see a breakthrough in the Iraqi crisis at near level?
Dr. Moro - I think victory is very close insaallah (God willing)..
What happens in the U.S. arena developments reflect the defeat of Bush and its project based in Iraq... We are from foreign perspective won insaallah, however to win on ourselves remained...
We should do act with full responsibility, to keep ourselves away from sectarianism and partisanship. We should unite to challenge the foreign projects...
As I have mentioned earlier, Muslim nation (ummah) will not defeated from the outside... But will be defeated from within because of sedition, narrow-mindedness and other negative things.
HEYET Net - Thank you for giving us this opportunity
Dr. Moro - Thank you, May Allah (swt) bless you
Hussein ed-Dulaimi / HEYET Net
The Biography of Dr. Muhammad Mauro (Moro)
Egyptian Islamic thinker
He has about 70 books in various Islamic issues of contemporary challenges, characterized by engagement with the issues raised in the Arab and Islamic world.
Editor-in-chief of Egypt's al Mukhtar al Islami Magazine
Written in a large number of Egyptian, Arab and international newspapers; inter-column, daily and weekly articles, studies and research
Some books have been translated into several languages such as Turkish, English, French and Urdu
A total of 35 story in children's literature and science fiction literature
Writes on an ongoing basis in a number of web pages such as al-Jazeera "al Marifa -knowledge", Muslim - Islam Today - Islam Online - Sharia - Islamic News Agency - Islammemo, etc.
Operates a media adviser to the number of the electronic press sites
Contributed to a number of international strategic reports both as consultations or writing
The following is the text of the interview:
HEYET Net - Five years of the American occupation of Iraq have passed... How do you view the pretexts and arguments of the U.S.A for invading Iraq? What are the real reasons for the invasion for your views?
Dr. Moro - In fact, the pretexts invoked by the U.S. were clear to us that this is just a false pretexts and arguments. This point of view of all observers and other observers with passion, the pretexts used by both Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction later on was proved with recognition by the Americans and the security services which used this pretext as a hoax…
Even reports which were provided to the Americans were acknowledging that Iraq does not possess such weapons…
Iraq does pose a threat neither to the West nor to the Arab States; therefore, this argument was lost before it starts, and then officially felt recognized by several security devices after occupation…
This was alone sufficient to trial on lying charges of Bush to the world in general and especially to the American public. His charges led the result of this invasion based on false pretexts killing hundreds of thousands, arresting tens of thousands and displacing millions of Iraqi people...
The second argument that America wanted to topple dictatorship…
Here is strange paradox in American policy; such is the same administration who is supporting dictators who take presidencies and dressed in military uniforms for decades... There is no need to mention names... But most of this is that the Americans are the ones who make dictatorships.
There is an argument used by some analysts that the reason– in their point of views - behind the invasion and occupation of Iraq was to control Iraqi oil. From a theoretical point of argument it is incorrect, which of course explains part of the theme of the reason that stands behind the occupation of Iraq, it does not explain the whole subject. True, America aspires to take advantage of Iraqi oil and control it; however this argument alone is not the reason for the invasion of Iraq!
The war in Iraq is a crusade; its proof is what George Bush said and the important word by his mouth, then returned and apologized to them.
What concerns us here, in fact, is to know what U.S. funds were expensed in Iraq because of this war. At official estimates, total expenditure reaches to three trillion dollars, and in the informal estimates, as some experts have pointed out that the war has cost nearly ten trillion dollars...
The second estimate on the amount of ten trillion dollars is not covered by Iraq's oil production, and it is not possible to be covered by the plundering of the U.S. war in Iraq from oil and other...
The situation can be calculated what Iraq is now producing from oil, and oil prices in global markets. To consider production revenues and earnings from dividends, and to assume that the Americans steal half of it in comparison how much money the U.S. administration expensed in its war, they will know that earning amount is worth nothing.
Here I can not deny that America has economic interests from its war and occupation of Iraq, but these interests do not really commensurate with what America paid from its budget, dead wounded, run-down military system, weakness of the army and fatigue of American society...
Thus the interpretation of the war on the grounds that it is because of oil is partial explanation; however this explanation is true, but does not include the topic in all aspects...
HEYET Net - How do you assess the Iraqi situation now under the suffering of the people from mass murder, torture and displacement?
Dr. Moro - Crime are committed by Americans in Iraq and by the Arab silence or impotence and betrayal of some political forces in Iraq.
HEYET Net - What about the raids, arrest campaigns and attacks against innocent people?
Dr. Moro - This confirms to us the fact that we are at the sectarianism projects, therefore it is duty for national forces in Iraq with all denominations to unite and to take the responsibility, and they must adopt a one position to end this situation.
HEYET Net - How do you view the mass displacement campaigns experienced by Iraq, and the number of displaced people at home and abroad, perhaps more than four million?
Dr. Moro - This is a tragedy reflecting another fact that reveals the falsehood of American claims allegedly came to provide the appropriate environment for freedom and democracy...
The result of displacement is very normal for the occupation of the American Jewish crusade.
HEYET Net - Why do sectarians try to displace Iraqis, particularly following displacement method based on identity?
Dr. Moro - Certainly displacement took a sectarian approach, and those who are pursuing a sectarian project have not completed this sectarian project except displacing the other community. Here I mean the Shiite politicians who have taken this sectarian approach as a path where upon they are walking. Thus nothing happens to whom they want only to displace Sunni people, for example. It is what happened in most regions of the South, many areas of Baghdad...
Moreover they will be able to control those areas where the other party abandoned to them for establishing a state or Shiite federalism in the south...
So there are some sorts of sectarianism and ethnic cleansing in Iraq which can not be ignored in any way!!
However, it is certain that all of these things will disappear in the coming days, and the truths will come clearer…
HEYET Net - Dr. you always called the resistance as "a beautiful light in the dark tunnel" How would you rate the performance of the resistance over the five years of occupation?
Dr. Moro - In my view the declination of the Islamic civilization increased, then fixed, then slipped. The issue of descending Islamic tendency has too many signs and in fact is Islamic reality...
This tendency has not been broken except with the Iraqi resistance...
As well as Lebanese, Palestinian, Afghan, Somali and other resistance movements...
But a great merit of this advancement is the Iraqi resistance, although it is now at difficult circumstances..
Even the Iraqi resistance was at a time of significant declination “the beautiful light in dark tunnel"
Thus, which stopped the U.S. imperialistic, colonialist and expansionist projects is the Iraqi resistance..
In other words, if the early outbreak of the Iraqi resistance at this time would not have erupted; Islamic Ummah will have been in case of retrogression that is wearisome so far!
HEYET Net - Does this mean you believe that the resistance has succeeded in foiling the U.S. project?
Dr. Moro - Yes. Iraqi Resistance succeeded in foiling the U.S. project with all certainty it caused a coup in the Islamic world and gave the ummah new hope and the value it deserves...
I say: the resistance was able to spoil the American project and its down; if there was not the Iraqi resistance, the resistance over the other countries in the multinational dimension would not spread. Because it gave hope to the people for having broken the prestige of the United States and preventing it from achieving its objectives in Iraq.
HEYET Net - What are the real causes of breaking of American administration in Iraq?
Dr. Moro - Since decades I have always been mentioning in my writings - and this has in some of by books for reference - I was saying: the true volition will prevail. The smallest village in the world can defeat America. The faith and the will are stronger than the war planes and the tanks. Human being is stronger than the technology, and we - Muslims - will not be defeated except inside of us!!
I have published a book entitled "we fought and won" 24 years ago. This book simply says: If we fought, we won, but if we decide to surrender under the pretext that the enemy is stronger than us, we can not face a war of aggression; then we defeated!!
This is true word by saying of Allah Almighty: “O ye who believe! Take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a people unjust. (The Holy Qur’an. 5:51) Then says: “And thou seest those in whose heart is a disease race toward them, saying: We fear lest a change of fortune befall us. And it may happen that Allah will vouchsafe (unto thee) the victory or a commandment from His presence. Then will they repent of their secret thoughts. (The Holy Qur’an. 5:52)
Therefore the logic of our enemy is stronger than us is an expression of “We fear lest a change of fortune befall us”!
HEYET Net - Dr, in light of these facts, many of which I have spoken... What is the future of the Iraqi resistance?
Dr. Moro - I think the Iraqi resistance is based on what previously decided and will not be defeated from outside. I think it will be defeated from within the country. .They will be victorious with help of God Almighty...
Thus, the chances of success lies in its analysis of the political situation in a good analysis, in addition to the need for analysis from logical perspective towards its owners, and faith perspective towards the enemy... They will succeed without a doubt.
HEYET Net - Turning to issue regarding Iran - the U.S. – Iraq.. To notice the intersection between American and Iranian projects In Iraq…Is this real or fictitious intersection in your opinion?
Dr. Moro - No, it is true. We must present a form from accurate understanding forms in this regard, there's no doubt the Iranians have a Shiite project and trying to take advantage of the Shiites in the world for its implementation. It is no doubt this project is a danger to the ummah, but it is less serious than the American project; having different possibilities, that is.
The second thing is that the Shiite project cannot be implemented except compromise with the United States. Therefore, if Iran wants to the implementation of the Shiite project, it will not be completed only to be a deal with the Americans!!
The Iranians do not mind them - apparently - from holding any deal with the Americans. This leads us to know an important fact, namely that America is mindless and wants to give Iran any package relating to Iraq, however in return for the latter deal which does not satisfy it is a strategic deal...
The problem of the Americans is that they do not want to give an appropriate reciprocity for all nations...
Although I think there are internal problems in Iran close to the case of dissolution. Therefore it is close to the case of defeat from the inside, and it will fell with the Shiite project which Iran is seeking to achieve it!!
We must know the Iranian project in Iraq is performed by some followers of Iran who owe their absolute allegiance to it, like the Shiite Islamic parties at least, who entered the current political arena under way in Iraq...
Thus they are implementing the policy serves to their critical Shiite project...
In return, it necessary for Sunnis to refuse the American Project and to resist against the Shiite Project with taking into account of it that is not serious than of American-Zionist expansionist project...
Of course, we exclude some other Shia Resistance groups like Hezbollah who develop a strategy to resist the Israeli aggression and the U.S...
Hence, the common denominator is to meet resistance. Therefore our position is clear over Hezbollah as a resistance faction to take a liberation basis for foiling the Zionist and American projects..
I know the issue is complex, but it is the policy. No doubt we should be thinking in the framework of our imagination, and there should be a separate position from the other party. This is exactly what made us to reject the Shiite project and at the same time to support Hezbollah in Lebanon...
HEYET Net - How do you view the Iranian intervention in Iraqi affairs? How it could be confronted?
Dr. Moro - I do not underestimate the importance of Iranian interference, and Iran has territorial ambitions in Iraq ..
If you resisted to the U.S. project, and united efforts to resist to America and confront with the American project, I believe this will itself face with the Iranian project ..
I mean: which is stronger now, the American army or the Iranian army? Of course the U.S. Army is militarily stronger...
If the occupation of Iraq by Iran is apparently completed, then the resistance will crush them like it did to the other that is stronger than Iran: the U.S. army...
But I assure you that if only Iran had not publicly intervened in Iraq. I am confident that Iraq will receive significant support from the Arab states to resist because of the seriousness of the Iranian project...
HEYET Net - U.S. elections at the door... What do you expect from it regarding the issue of Iraq?
Dr. Moro - I think the issue as follows: there is a decision of U.S. strategic withdrawal from Iraq and this decision - which will be taken to preserve the dignity of the U.S.- must be taken at the framework of “it is not defeated”. They called it perfect withdrawal on the one hand..
On the other hand, there are domestic reasons which will be imposed on an American withdrawal. Obama was nominated and stood with him by the institutions and parties those who want to withdraw from Iraq; of course, this is the case of his win...
It means American institutions decided to withdraw from Iraq!!
And decided Obama to succeed!! The success of Obama means: The United States decided to withdraw from Iraq, and stay in the war against terrorism...
HEYET Net - How do you evaluate the project sponsored by the opposition forces against the occupation of Iraq?
Dr. Moro - According to my information, I am inclined to the strong opposition project to the occupation, including the Association of Muslim Scholars. We support it in her correct position..
We do not have anything sacred and infallible, but the performance of AMSI so far is satisfactorily. The most important reason for this is that AMSI has a resistance approach and was able to publish resistance thought in the world...
The Association of Muslim Scholars and its information tools was able to correct what surrounded the Iraqi resistance from campaigns of defamation by multi-dimensional directions..
I think they have played a leading role in this direction; to establish its satellite channel, to publish newspaper, to open websites, and various releases are of clear proof over the maturity of its cultural project.
HEYET Net - Do you see a breakthrough in the Iraqi crisis at near level?
Dr. Moro - I think victory is very close insaallah (God willing)..
What happens in the U.S. arena developments reflect the defeat of Bush and its project based in Iraq... We are from foreign perspective won insaallah, however to win on ourselves remained...
We should do act with full responsibility, to keep ourselves away from sectarianism and partisanship. We should unite to challenge the foreign projects...
As I have mentioned earlier, Muslim nation (ummah) will not defeated from the outside... But will be defeated from within because of sedition, narrow-mindedness and other negative things.
HEYET Net - Thank you for giving us this opportunity
Dr. Moro - Thank you, May Allah (swt) bless you
Hussein ed-Dulaimi / HEYET Net
The Biography of Dr. Muhammad Mauro (Moro)
Egyptian Islamic thinker
He has about 70 books in various Islamic issues of contemporary challenges, characterized by engagement with the issues raised in the Arab and Islamic world.
Editor-in-chief of Egypt's al Mukhtar al Islami Magazine
Written in a large number of Egyptian, Arab and international newspapers; inter-column, daily and weekly articles, studies and research
Some books have been translated into several languages such as Turkish, English, French and Urdu
A total of 35 story in children's literature and science fiction literature
Writes on an ongoing basis in a number of web pages such as al-Jazeera "al Marifa -knowledge", Muslim - Islam Today - Islam Online - Sharia - Islamic News Agency - Islammemo, etc.
Operates a media adviser to the number of the electronic press sites
Contributed to a number of international strategic reports both as consultations or writing
Israel bombed shia alawi Al Assad intel center in Damascus and try to blame it on the Muslim parties
Syria's wall of security breached
By Sami Moubayed,
Damascus: In a rare but deadly attack, a car bomb exploded on Saturday, near a Shiite shrine in southern Damascus, killing 17 people and wounding 14 others, state media said.
Saturday's blast occurred during the morning rush-hour in the teeming neighbourhood of Sayeda Zeinab, the state-run Sana news agency said.
The district is popular among Shiite pilgrims from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq who pray at the tomb of Zeinab. "This is a cowardly terrorist attack," Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdul Majid told Gulf News.
The blast, which contained 200kg of explosives, killed 17 civilians.
Syria, usually known for its iron-fisted security, has witnessed some recent cracks in its apparatus, especially after the car bomb assassination of Emad Moughniya, military commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, in February.
Speculation was ripe in Arab and international media, some claiming that it targeted a nearby intelligence complex, others claiming it was aimed at the Shiite shrine.
While the site was immediately sealed off, Gulf News spoke with people near the scene.
"I saw a thick cloud of smoke rising into the air, followed by many ambulance cars rushing towards the scene," Ziad, a local cabdriver, explained.
"We haven't seen anything like this since the days of the Muslim Brotherhood," he added, in reference to militant attacks by the radical group in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Another observer, who declined to give his name, had a different theory.
"This is either Israel, or a certain Arab country that has had nothing but scorn for Syria since 2005. I don't want to mention names; everybody knows who I am taking about," he said.
Fingers pointed
Mustafa Al Sayyed, a journalist and analyst, said, "the explosion in Damascus was terrorism par excellence, because it targeted innocent civilians. I blame Israel, given all the terrorist attacks and assassinations we witnessed in Syria over the last year, which I believe, were conducted by the Mossad."
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were first to condemn the bombing. Medvedev described it as a "cruel and inhumane crime", while Sarkozy said it was, "barbarian and blind" expressing "solidarity with Syria in its fight against terrorism."
Attack: Snap analysis
The car bomb exploded less than 100 metres away from a major security base on a highway leading to Damascus's international airport, raising speculation that the base was the attackers' target. If confirmed, it would be the most brazen attack on Syrian security forces for several years.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the interior minister's remarks indicated that Syrian investigators suspect hardliners were involved.
The attack, in which a suicide bomber has not been ruled out, was reminiscent of attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1980s.
Implications
The attack is the latest blow to Syrian security as it follows the assassination of the military commander of Lebanon's Hezbollah in Damascus and a senior military aide to President Bashar Al Assad in northern Syria earlier this year. It comes also a year after Israeli warplanes destroyed what was a suspected nuclear facility deep in Syrian territories.
The Syrian authorities have for long boasted that Syria was a haven of stability in a troubled area, with volatile Iraq, Lebanon and Israel on its borders. A rise in attacks is sure to change all that and make officials nervous over long-term stability in the country.
What's next
Syrian authorities are expected to crack down on hardliners and other dissident groups. Syria's ties with militants including Al Qaida-linked groups is complex and complicated. The United States and other countries have long accused Damascus of allowing Al Qaida to use its territory to transfer fighters to Iraq and even Lebanon - charges Syria denies. But Damascus has a track record of cracking down on Syrian hardliners since the 1970s. Over the past two years its forces have killed several militants and arrested hundreds.
The attack is unlikely to change Syrian policies, especially in pursuing indirect peace talks with Israel in Turkey and diplomatic detente with Europe after years of international isolation. But it might harden Syria's position on Lebanon and what it sees as the rise of militancy in the north of its smaller neighbour.
By Sami Moubayed,
Damascus: In a rare but deadly attack, a car bomb exploded on Saturday, near a Shiite shrine in southern Damascus, killing 17 people and wounding 14 others, state media said.
Saturday's blast occurred during the morning rush-hour in the teeming neighbourhood of Sayeda Zeinab, the state-run Sana news agency said.
The district is popular among Shiite pilgrims from Iran, Lebanon and Iraq who pray at the tomb of Zeinab. "This is a cowardly terrorist attack," Syrian Interior Minister Bassam Abdul Majid told Gulf News.
The blast, which contained 200kg of explosives, killed 17 civilians.
Syria, usually known for its iron-fisted security, has witnessed some recent cracks in its apparatus, especially after the car bomb assassination of Emad Moughniya, military commander of the Lebanese group Hezbollah, in February.
Speculation was ripe in Arab and international media, some claiming that it targeted a nearby intelligence complex, others claiming it was aimed at the Shiite shrine.
While the site was immediately sealed off, Gulf News spoke with people near the scene.
"I saw a thick cloud of smoke rising into the air, followed by many ambulance cars rushing towards the scene," Ziad, a local cabdriver, explained.
"We haven't seen anything like this since the days of the Muslim Brotherhood," he added, in reference to militant attacks by the radical group in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
Another observer, who declined to give his name, had a different theory.
"This is either Israel, or a certain Arab country that has had nothing but scorn for Syria since 2005. I don't want to mention names; everybody knows who I am taking about," he said.
Fingers pointed
Mustafa Al Sayyed, a journalist and analyst, said, "the explosion in Damascus was terrorism par excellence, because it targeted innocent civilians. I blame Israel, given all the terrorist attacks and assassinations we witnessed in Syria over the last year, which I believe, were conducted by the Mossad."
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, King Abdullah II of Jordan, and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were first to condemn the bombing. Medvedev described it as a "cruel and inhumane crime", while Sarkozy said it was, "barbarian and blind" expressing "solidarity with Syria in its fight against terrorism."
Attack: Snap analysis
The car bomb exploded less than 100 metres away from a major security base on a highway leading to Damascus's international airport, raising speculation that the base was the attackers' target. If confirmed, it would be the most brazen attack on Syrian security forces for several years.
No group claimed responsibility for the attack but the interior minister's remarks indicated that Syrian investigators suspect hardliners were involved.
The attack, in which a suicide bomber has not been ruled out, was reminiscent of attacks by the Muslim Brotherhood in the early 1980s.
Implications
The attack is the latest blow to Syrian security as it follows the assassination of the military commander of Lebanon's Hezbollah in Damascus and a senior military aide to President Bashar Al Assad in northern Syria earlier this year. It comes also a year after Israeli warplanes destroyed what was a suspected nuclear facility deep in Syrian territories.
The Syrian authorities have for long boasted that Syria was a haven of stability in a troubled area, with volatile Iraq, Lebanon and Israel on its borders. A rise in attacks is sure to change all that and make officials nervous over long-term stability in the country.
What's next
Syrian authorities are expected to crack down on hardliners and other dissident groups. Syria's ties with militants including Al Qaida-linked groups is complex and complicated. The United States and other countries have long accused Damascus of allowing Al Qaida to use its territory to transfer fighters to Iraq and even Lebanon - charges Syria denies. But Damascus has a track record of cracking down on Syrian hardliners since the 1970s. Over the past two years its forces have killed several militants and arrested hundreds.
The attack is unlikely to change Syrian policies, especially in pursuing indirect peace talks with Israel in Turkey and diplomatic detente with Europe after years of international isolation. But it might harden Syria's position on Lebanon and what it sees as the rise of militancy in the north of its smaller neighbour.
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Affaire Mecili : Le gouvernement francais a ordonné la liquidation de Mecili au travers de son agent 'juif' sioniste Larbi Belkheir
Le titre de ce post résume bien la situation, contrairement à ce que les criminels de guerre et commanditaires des attentats d'Alger, le 11 Decembre 2007 visant les batiments de l'ONU, Bernard Bajolet et Alliot Marie tentent de faire croire à une lutte entre opposants algériens en Europe.
L'agent sioniste Belkheir, pour le compte du gouvernement francais a fait assassiner l'avocat Ali Mecili, et Sarkosy, fils spirituel de l'officier du mossad Pasqua fait tout pour le couvrir... Un Belkheir jugé et c'est tous les faux groupes islamiques crées au Maghreb qui seront jugés, puisque la France au travers de l'agent francais Belkheir, a crée le GIA, le GICM, pris le controle en 1996 du GSPC et maintenant AQMI...
Belkheir tombe, et le cortege des harkis comme Tewfik suit immediatement... L'on ne discute pas du 'repentir' de la France mais bien de la mise en place d'un tribunal international pour l'Algerie afin de juger les politiques, militaires, policiers et magistrats francais responsables du génocide algérien et reparations financieres astronomiques... C'est une tres grande difference, que le nain de jardin israelien Sarkosy n'a pas du tout saisie... Proteger Belkheir ou le faire condamner en France ne l'empechera pas d'etre cité dans tous les autres proces à venir et il y en beaucoups !
Je crois fermement que Sarkosy fera assassiner Belkheir au Maroc dans les semaines ou les mois qui viennent car Aboulker de son vrai nom de juif algérien tient un rang assez elevé au sein du gouvernement francais, c'est toute la France-Afrique qui risque l'eradication...
Abu-Suleyman
Dans les coulisses de l'affaire Mecili
le 24 septembre
le 24 septembre
C’est l’affaire Ben Barka, version algérienne.
L’affaire Mecili, du nom d’Ali André Mecili, avocat franco-algérien abattu devant son domicile parisien, le 7 avril 1987.
Mecili tentait alors d’unifier l’opposition algérienne en exil. Son tueur présumé, muni d'une lettre de mission signée d'un certain capitaine Rachid Hassani, est arrêté par la police, avant d'être expulsé vers Alger par le ministre de l’Intérieur de l’époque, Charles Pasqua.
L’été dernier : l’affaire rebondit. Un diplomate algérien est arrêté à Marignane : Mohammed Ziane Hasseni. Il pourrait s’agir du commanditaire du meurtre d’Ali Mecili, ce que démentent farouchement les autorités algériennes…
France Inter rouvre le dossier Mecili.
Une enquête de Benoît Collombat.
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The PRE-PLANNED Financial/Economic 911 of 2008
Ben Shalom Bernanke, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, is the dedicated Zionist Jew behind the $85 billion taxpayer-funded bailout of Maurice Greenberg's criminal enterprise, A.I.G.
WHAT: A pre-planned collapse of the US (and global) financial and economic systems.
WHO: The same characters who perpetrated the original 911.
WHERE: New York City & DC, of course. Plus a sideshow in Washington state.
WHEN: The days surrounding September 11, naturally.
HOW: Instead of painted drones, missiles with fins and fake airplanes, they used the much more stealthy short seller.
WHY: To remake the economic/financial order of the world.
WHY Really: Think about it ! And then ask yourself, “Cui bono?”
The 911 blueprint worked so magically for the world controllers that they were compelled to use virtually the same playbook. “If it ain't broke, don't fix it.”
So, what's the real deal here?
By analogy, let's take a quick look at the 911 timeline and stack it up against the new 2008 Financial “911”, as it began to unfold earlier this year.
The Bear Stearns collapse that began in March, 2008 is analogous to the 1 st World Trade Center bombing in 1993. Just a warm up.
The nationalization of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac marks the beginning of the new 911. Both in the DC area, they were the first to come down this time. Just as they struck at the heart of the military complex, this time they went for the jugular of the national real estate market. Remember – this is a financial 911.
Next came this year's version of the twin towers, building 7 and other assorted NYC landmarks in the form of Lehman Brothers, AIG, Merrill Lynch, as well as Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs in their “new & improved” form. Basically took out the whole of American investment brokerage, heh?!
And, of course, we still have Washington Mutual out there in the boonies just like the one that “crashed” in a PA farm field.
The 700 trillion dollar Bailout Plan is just like the Patriot Act, isn't it? Only this time it's maybe a 1 or 2 page document that confers absolute authority on the Executive Branch to do just about anything they want with the taxpayer's money. And they want it rubber stamped now. Not tomorrow. NOW!!! Without discussion, or unnecessary congressional debate. Talk about Shock & Awe being used against the American people, and their elected representatives!?!
Now we know we can expect further gyrations, panics and precipitous declines in the market and elsewhere, just as we had anthrax attacks in the Capital, beltway snipers in Maryland in October of '02, the 3/11/04 train bombings in Madrid , and the 7/7/05 bombings in London . Not to mention the 50 or so other synthetic terror events staged throughout the world to enforce compliance and create distraction.
The sudden and dramatic downfall of NY Gov Eliot Spitzer can also now be seen in its proper light. Having left the reservation one too many times, he simply could not be trusted to go with the flow. He had their numbers, their signatures, their addresses --- the whole ball of wax, as well as his own reputation to burnish. The elimination of John O'Neil, Head of Security at the WTC, is quite similar, except that John O. – a great patriot – died on 911 having just been given the job.
To date, the most obvious and glaring example of this manipulated takedown is the case of a NY Senator. His letter to the FDIC contained confidential information that triggered the IndyMac bank collapse in July. California AG Jerry Brown was called to review the entire affair after the OTS Director explicitly blamed the letter for causing a run on the bank (3 rd largest bank failure in US history). This episode is eerily reminiscent of Larry Silverstein's order to, “Pull it.” just prior to the expertly controlled demolition of Building # 7on 911.
Just as 911 was perpetrated as a cover for: inaugurating the War on Terror, overtly advancing the NWO regime globally (in contrast to this previously covert operation), imposing a police state (Homeland Security) in the US (by gutting the US Constitution), UK and elsewhere, dominating and securing oil/gas reserves in the Middle East and Cacaucus (to include running energy pipelines through Afghanistan and stealing Irag's oil wealth via military invasion), jump starting the Afghan opium trade, etc., the ECO/FIN 911 of '08 is a cover for many of these same agenda items. However, there is one little item that is particularly high on the current agenda. And that concerns the derivatives market, which in its totality approximates somewhere between 500 trillion and 1 quadrillion dollars of instruments as of 2008. In fact, the sub prime mortgage defaults are just a tip of the tip of the iceberg when compared to the real megilla – DERIVATIVES. This is what they're really worried about, and having to cover for. Except this is a quadrillion dollar megilla that can't be covered without unraveling the entire capitalistic system, and its fascist corpocracy and kleptocratic oligarchy.
And then there is the teenie, weenie matter concerning the Federal Reserve, and its collection agency – the IRS. The man standing behind this curtain has a lot at stake, especially in the form of mountains of evidence that will indict, and convict, the entire system. Lots of evidence was destroyed during and after 911, as will happen after many of these Wall Street firms are taken over, nationalized, liquidated, merged and disappeared. The veil, however, has already been lifted.
Does anyone see a pattern here?!
The real lesson to be gleaned from this analysis is that events of such enormity and consequence are rarely spontaneous and unchoreographed. Especially when they happen just weeks from an era defining presidential election. They have obviously been planning this one for a long time, and it has been fastidiously engineered to have a very definite effect and desired outcome – a permanent planetary plantation (PPP).
The execution, thus far, has been flawless. Even for those of us who stood there on the 1 st 911, and knew it was a fraud while the buildings were coming down, this one is exceedingly more difficult to penetrate. However, penetrate we will, until every last conspirator is sitting before the TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION spillin' the beans. The ultimate and lasting effect of these inquiries will be a New World Order of our making, not theirs. The only remaining, $64,000 question will undoubtedly be, “What do we do with them when we head them off at the pass?”
For the uninitiated, it may take quite a lot to wrap your mind around this extremely complex and convoluted plot, but, please, just be patient. As this drama plays out, the true intentions of the primary perpetrators will become manifest as they unwittingly reveal themselves by their handiwork. As Eliot Spitzer, no - Eliot Ness, nee – Sherlock Holmes once alluded to – a fingerprint inadvertently left as evidence is impossible to erase.
You see, the short sellers, unlike the “airplanes”, are still with us. Each one had a target to take down which they did with amazing speed and dexterity. And the myriad transactions that converged to topple their prey are all preserved somewhere, in some huge database, with multiple backups to serve as confirmation of trades of staggering amounts. AHHH! Nothing like computers, especially when they're not confiscated and shipped off to China for permanent disposal.
May all financial wizards and economic soothsayers, henceforth, be inspired to stare into their crystal ball and divine the upcoming financial and economic events of global proportions with the keenest of acumen and sleuthing. As we shine the LIGHT of our collective awareness on these rapidly unfolding schemes, we will serve as beacons of revelation, and hope to the world.
Remember – we now know the script. We know the major players involved. We are able to watch the crimes being committed in real time. Each of us has now been thusly notified, and empowered, to serve as a vector of dissemination of this vital and critical information.
So -----> LET'S GET BUSY ! ! !
T. Anthony Michael
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Monday, September 22, 2008
Warning : Israel to strike Germany with a huge false flag operation
BEYROUTH BOMBINGS : SADM WERE USED : micro nuke devices owned by TEL AVIV
BALI BOMBINGS : SADM WERE USED : micro nuke devices owned by TEL AVIV
ISLAMABAD BOMBING : micro nuke devices owned by TEL AVIV
REMEMBER BALI, DJAKARTA, AND BEYROUTH, ALL THESE OPERATIONS HAVE THE FOOTPRINT OF TEL AVIV AND ITS CONTROLLED JOINT VENTURES CIA/MI6.
NOW LOOK AT THE ISLAMABAD OPERATION... WE INFORMED YOU ON THIS BLOG TWO WEEKS AGO ABOUT A HIGHLY RISK OF FALSE FLAG OPERATION AGAINST ROBERT GATES, US SECRETARY OF 'DEFENSE'...
Intelligence: Terror false flags operation in U.S., Europe possibly imminent
Israeli Mossad is informing you through his mouthpiece Michael Chertoff, israeli citizen living in the USA and Master Terrorist Chief of the Homeland Security Department that Israel is going to strike Germany in the coming days. Now look at their message, it's clear no ? Well that's on their website !
Israeli Mossad is informing you through his mouthpiece Michael Chertoff, israeli citizen living in the USA and Master Terrorist Chief of the Homeland Security Department that Israel is going to strike Germany in the coming days. Now look at their message, it's clear no ? Well that's on their website !
Terrorist operatives reportedly dispatched, in place, and possibly ready to execute terrorist operation in U.S., Europe“Pray for the successes of our brothers in America & Europe. Expect ‘good news’ soon.” Posted by Arabic speaking Islamic terrorist supporter (it means Sarkosy Ben Mossad, of course !)
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
By Douglas J. Hagmann, Director
17 September 2008: A disturbing communication posted in a high level Arabic language forum suggests that some type of terrorist operation is currently underway, targeting sites within the United States and Europe. According to information developed within the last 24 hours by a deep-cover intelligence operative, Islamic terrorists have been dispatched to the U.S. and Europe and may be in place, preparing to execute unspecified terrorist attacks within the U.S. and Europe.
Neither the targets nor the types of attacks were able to be identified from an analysis of the communications, although it appears possible that the European and American operations could be conducted in tandem. Also unclear is the timetable of potential attacks, although the wording pertaining to the “anticipated celebration” of the success of such attacks suggests that they will be carried out within the next few days.
While many such threats by Islamic terrorists are published constantly and end up being nothing more than propaganda, it is important to note that the origin and nature of the communications isolated here meet a significantly higher standard of evidence for threat evaluation purposes. As such, it is the recommendation of this agency that individual awareness of any suspicious activity be stepped up accordingly, and immediately reported to the appropriate law enforcement agency.
Increased vigilance by law enforcement and security professionals is also urged, especially at areas of likely “hard” targets such as our infrastructure.
From King David Hotel in Palestine to Marriott Hotel in Pakistan
« Pakistan is being punished for refusing to allow U.S. military boots on Pakistani soil, for the bombings in India, for the July 7 attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, and for the failures of the American military in Afghanistan. The attack is a clear message to the Pakistani ruling elite: We will bring the war to your home. », Ahmed Quraishi : « Islamabad Attack: Time To End Pakistani Role In America’s War », 21st Sept 2008.
The inside of Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, in flames
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani gave a stern warning to Washington against any attack on Pakistani soil, and recently gave orders to repel and did repel such an intrusion. In order to end pro-US President Zardardi’s alleged reluctance to endorse the General’s warning to Washington, on 20th September 2008, the President, who is also the widower of assassinated Benazir Bhutto, told a joint session of Parliament that : « We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism ». A few hours later, namely at 20.00 hours on 20 Sept 2008, the Marriott Hotel was attacked and the US immediately put the blame on Al-Qaida and the ‘Pakistan Taliban’. Both terms are creations of the Mossad-CIA. There is no organisation called Al-Qaida which was the name given by the Mossad-CIA to their database of Afghan agents fighting the Soviet occupation. On the other hand, Taliban is a political organisation in Afghanistan like Labour in the UK and Likhud in Israel-in-Palestine. There is no political organisation called ‘Taliban’ in Pakistan, although there are Pakistanis who may sympathise with the Taliban. But they are an infirm minority in small groups and not armies as alleged by the US and their Pakistani agents. They have neither sophisticated weapons nor any money to buy them. Those stories are invented by Zionists in the US and Israel and repeated ad nauseam in their media in order to make a case to force pro-US President Zardardi to turn his guns on his own people and to attack Pakistan and seize its nuclear weapons.
The Indian connection
The US have allowed India to set up military training camps in Afghanistan, and they are training, arming and financing rebels who are being sent to Pakistan to destabilise the government. India has forged a strategic alliance with Israel to perfect India’s methods of occupation of Kashmir where all Indian atrocities, mass graves of Kashmiris, shootings of civilians and human rights abuses are brushed under the carpet. The Mossad, Hamid Karzai and India are fuelling ethnic insurgency in South West Pakistan where China is building a strategic port. In addition, with her nuclear and military deals with the US, India seems to pay lip service to her diverse peoples with a high risk of further partitions of India. Remember, it was India which financed and armed East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to breakaway from then West Pakistan.
The Marriott attack
In 1946, through his terrorists dressed up in Palestinian army uniforms, terrorist Menahem Begin, leader of Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel, the British Military command in Palestine, leading to the break-up of Palestine to this day. The break-up of Pakistan is on the Mossad-CIA agenda. Similarly, the bombing, allegedly by two Sunni men in uniform, of the Holy Shia mosque in Samarra in April 2003, was designed to divide resistance against the terror of US occupation and its allies and eventually divide Iraq. The hotly-disputed and unproven official conspiracy theory is that the 9/11 attacks in the US were the work of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, leading to the invasion of Afghanistan and later Iraq. This is the only way Zionists can divide and control the Muslim world.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the Marriott attack in Islamabad, the US conspiracy theory is that it is the work of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, again with no proof. But the sequence of events points in a totally different direction, especially as the attack took place only a few hours after President Zardardi’s assurance on the protection of Pakistani sovereignty. In the Marriott attack, CCTV footage shows a truck trying to force its way through the barrier but ‘failed’ to go through as it stopped at the barrier, 60 feet away from the hotel. An explosion took place inside the lorry and security guards tried to put out the fire. But the alleged ‘suicide bombing’ was never shown, and how the deep crater outside the hotel was created was not shown either. But the whole length of the hotel was on fire inside and across all the floors, and this was not caused by the explosion outside as the alleged ‘bomb-laden’ lorry could not make it beyond the gate.
Reports suggest that Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani, the owner of Marriott, allowed the U.S. military to store military equipment inside the hotel. Mr Hashwani is said to be very close to President Zardardi and co-owners of a hotel in Houston, Texas. While Admiral Mike Mullen was meeting Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad on 20 Sept 2008, it is reported that steel boxes were being unloaded by US Marines from a US Embassy truck and shifted to the upper floors of the Marriott Hotel by bypassing the scanners. This activity was witnessed by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) members such as « Mumtaz Alam Gilani and his two friends, Sajjad Chaudhry, a PPP leader, and one Bashir Nadeem », says Ahmed Quraishi.
It is also very strange and suspicious that, after such a shocking and sophisticated attack, President Zardardi persists in flying to New York on 22 Sept 2008, less than two days following the Marriott attack, to attend a US-controlled General Assembly session where he will meet the US invading President George Bush « on the sidelines » who will most probably urge him to sack Pakistan's powerful army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani who dared sent warning shots against the US in order to protect Pakistan from US terrorism.
Conclusion
« The frequency and intensity of attacks inside Pakistan have exceeded the attacks that U.S. military is facing in Afghanistan », says Ahmad Quraishi. This is clearly part of a plan to force President Zardardi to turn his guns on his own people and give the US military a foothold inside Pakistan, which Pakistanis reject. President Zardardi must shed the stigma of being a pro-US leader, and prove to the Pakistani people that he is a pro-Pakistan leader safeguarding his people and the sovereignty of Pakistan. No one should be allowed to meddle in its internal affairs. Pakistan must defeat the Zionist forces of extremism and terrorism operating in Pakistan. In his article, Ahmed Quraishi makes it abundantly clear that for this to happen, Pakistan must end its role in America’s war.
M Rafic Soormally
London
22 September 2008
The inside of Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, in flames
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani gave a stern warning to Washington against any attack on Pakistani soil, and recently gave orders to repel and did repel such an intrusion. In order to end pro-US President Zardardi’s alleged reluctance to endorse the General’s warning to Washington, on 20th September 2008, the President, who is also the widower of assassinated Benazir Bhutto, told a joint session of Parliament that : « We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism ». A few hours later, namely at 20.00 hours on 20 Sept 2008, the Marriott Hotel was attacked and the US immediately put the blame on Al-Qaida and the ‘Pakistan Taliban’. Both terms are creations of the Mossad-CIA. There is no organisation called Al-Qaida which was the name given by the Mossad-CIA to their database of Afghan agents fighting the Soviet occupation. On the other hand, Taliban is a political organisation in Afghanistan like Labour in the UK and Likhud in Israel-in-Palestine. There is no political organisation called ‘Taliban’ in Pakistan, although there are Pakistanis who may sympathise with the Taliban. But they are an infirm minority in small groups and not armies as alleged by the US and their Pakistani agents. They have neither sophisticated weapons nor any money to buy them. Those stories are invented by Zionists in the US and Israel and repeated ad nauseam in their media in order to make a case to force pro-US President Zardardi to turn his guns on his own people and to attack Pakistan and seize its nuclear weapons.
The Indian connection
The US have allowed India to set up military training camps in Afghanistan, and they are training, arming and financing rebels who are being sent to Pakistan to destabilise the government. India has forged a strategic alliance with Israel to perfect India’s methods of occupation of Kashmir where all Indian atrocities, mass graves of Kashmiris, shootings of civilians and human rights abuses are brushed under the carpet. The Mossad, Hamid Karzai and India are fuelling ethnic insurgency in South West Pakistan where China is building a strategic port. In addition, with her nuclear and military deals with the US, India seems to pay lip service to her diverse peoples with a high risk of further partitions of India. Remember, it was India which financed and armed East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to breakaway from then West Pakistan.
The Marriott attack
In 1946, through his terrorists dressed up in Palestinian army uniforms, terrorist Menahem Begin, leader of Irgun, bombed the King David Hotel, the British Military command in Palestine, leading to the break-up of Palestine to this day. The break-up of Pakistan is on the Mossad-CIA agenda. Similarly, the bombing, allegedly by two Sunni men in uniform, of the Holy Shia mosque in Samarra in April 2003, was designed to divide resistance against the terror of US occupation and its allies and eventually divide Iraq. The hotly-disputed and unproven official conspiracy theory is that the 9/11 attacks in the US were the work of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, leading to the invasion of Afghanistan and later Iraq. This is the only way Zionists can divide and control the Muslim world.
Although no group has claimed responsibility for the Marriott attack in Islamabad, the US conspiracy theory is that it is the work of Al-Qaida and the Taliban, again with no proof. But the sequence of events points in a totally different direction, especially as the attack took place only a few hours after President Zardardi’s assurance on the protection of Pakistani sovereignty. In the Marriott attack, CCTV footage shows a truck trying to force its way through the barrier but ‘failed’ to go through as it stopped at the barrier, 60 feet away from the hotel. An explosion took place inside the lorry and security guards tried to put out the fire. But the alleged ‘suicide bombing’ was never shown, and how the deep crater outside the hotel was created was not shown either. But the whole length of the hotel was on fire inside and across all the floors, and this was not caused by the explosion outside as the alleged ‘bomb-laden’ lorry could not make it beyond the gate.
Reports suggest that Mr. Sadruddin Hashwani, the owner of Marriott, allowed the U.S. military to store military equipment inside the hotel. Mr Hashwani is said to be very close to President Zardardi and co-owners of a hotel in Houston, Texas. While Admiral Mike Mullen was meeting Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad on 20 Sept 2008, it is reported that steel boxes were being unloaded by US Marines from a US Embassy truck and shifted to the upper floors of the Marriott Hotel by bypassing the scanners. This activity was witnessed by the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) members such as « Mumtaz Alam Gilani and his two friends, Sajjad Chaudhry, a PPP leader, and one Bashir Nadeem », says Ahmed Quraishi.
It is also very strange and suspicious that, after such a shocking and sophisticated attack, President Zardardi persists in flying to New York on 22 Sept 2008, less than two days following the Marriott attack, to attend a US-controlled General Assembly session where he will meet the US invading President George Bush « on the sidelines » who will most probably urge him to sack Pakistan's powerful army chief, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani who dared sent warning shots against the US in order to protect Pakistan from US terrorism.
Conclusion
« The frequency and intensity of attacks inside Pakistan have exceeded the attacks that U.S. military is facing in Afghanistan », says Ahmad Quraishi. This is clearly part of a plan to force President Zardardi to turn his guns on his own people and give the US military a foothold inside Pakistan, which Pakistanis reject. President Zardardi must shed the stigma of being a pro-US leader, and prove to the Pakistani people that he is a pro-Pakistan leader safeguarding his people and the sovereignty of Pakistan. No one should be allowed to meddle in its internal affairs. Pakistan must defeat the Zionist forces of extremism and terrorism operating in Pakistan. In his article, Ahmed Quraishi makes it abundantly clear that for this to happen, Pakistan must end its role in America’s war.
M Rafic Soormally
London
22 September 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Pakistan bombing targeted a group of the most important cadres of American intelligence
Message to Robert Gates, chief of the american terrorists in the Middle East : You should have been over there ? Aren't you ? Why did you changed your plans ? Apparently you have a huge problem with Mullen, may be next time he will have more chance ! Like the israelis we have all your communications... Tel Aviv did not warned you, how comes ? Who do you believe now ?
Abu-Suleyman
Update, 21st September 2008, 23H59pm :
What Was Mysterious Activity Going on in the Marriott Hotel Islamabad by United States Marines
Sunday, 21 September 2008 12:18 www.daily.pk
Marriott Hotel has now become a ghost house which was yesterday the most beautiful and prestigious hotels in the Islamabad. While the condemnation of the blasts and the deaths and the loss of property is going on from all the quarters, some intriguing news is also pouring in.
After the blast, mysteriously fire was started at the fourth and fifth floors. It was said that this fire was the result of gas pipeline burst running through the hotel. The million dollar question is that was the gas pipeline not running through the other floors? Why the fire broke out from the fourth and fifth flours? That is the question which perhaps holds the key to the mystery as why the hotel was targeted yesterday, in which more than 60 people died including many foreigners.
Though it would never get confirmed but the fire on the fifth and fourth floor of the hotel broke out because those flours were housing the mysterious steel boxes under the heavy guard of United States marines and no one including the Pakistani security forces and the security men of the hotel were allowed to go near with the them. These boxes were shifted inside the hotel when the Admiral Mike Mullen met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and others in Islamabad.
It is said that one member of parliament Mumtaz Alam who belongs to the PPP, the ruling party was there eye witnessed the whole scene when the white truck of US embassy came to the gate of Marriot Hotel and US marines themselves unloaded the steel boxes from the trucks and shifted them to the fourth and fifth floors without passing through them the scanners at the entrance of the hotels. When the truck was there, all the entrance and the exit passage way to the hotels were closed.
And now this blast has occurred at the Marriott, while that mysterious activity was going on.
The news agency revealed "ANI" Asian massive bomb attack that destroyed the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad on Saturday was aimed at the most elite of cadres and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA. وأفادت أحدث حصيلة للعملية التفجيرية المباغتة بسقوط 60 قتيلاً وأكثر من 200 جريح، فيما لا تزال هناك أعداد كبيرة من المفقودين والمحاصرين تحت أنقاض الفندق الذي يوشك على الانهيار التام. According to the latest toll of the bombing sudden fall of 60 dead and more than 200 wounded, while there are still large numbers of missing and trapped under the rubble of the hotel which is about to complete collapse. وذكرت مصادر حكومية ألمانية أن ستة من الرعايا الألمان كانوا بين الجرحى الذين خلفتهم العملية التفجيرية، وكانت الأنباء قد أشارت إلى إصابة ثلاثة من مسئولي السفارة الأمريكية، وعدد كبير من المواطنين الغربيين.
The German government sources said that six German nationals were among the wounded who left behind after suicide, and the news has pointed to the injury of three U.S. embassy officials and a large number of Westerners. وأعربت بريطانيا عن قلقها الشديد لمقتل هذا العدد الضخم في العملية التفجيرية، وأعلنت استعدادها لمساعدة باكستان في ضبط الوضع الأمني المتوتر. Britain expressed grave concern about the deaths of so many massive bombing and declared their willingness to help Pakistan in controlling the tense security situation. لندن تؤكد مساندة حكومة باكستان: London emphasizes support of the Government of Pakistan: وقال ديفيد ميليباند وزير الخارجية البريطاني في تصريحات لمحطة "بي.بي.سي نيوز 24": "مساعدتنا للحكومة الباكستانية من الواضح أنها ستكون في الجانب الأمني ولدينا مصالح مشتركة على الحدود الباكستانية الأفغانية لأن الجنود البريطانيين من الواضح أنهم في موضع خطر في أفغانستان".
"David Miliband, British Foreign Secretary told the" me. Me. ABC News 24 ":" our assistance to the Pakistani government clearly would be in the security aspect and we have common interests on the Afghan-Pakistan border since the British soldiers it is clear they are at stake in Afghanistan. " وأضاف: "نحن نريد أن ندعم تنميتهم الاقتصادية والاجتماعية لأنه على المدى الطويل يعد ذلك هاما لطرد المتطرفين وتهميش المتطرفين" كما قال. He added: "We want to support their economic and social consequences of the long term, this is important to expel extremists and marginalize the extremists," he said. وتواصل الدول الغربية الحليفة للولايات المتحدة استغلال كل فرصة تسنح في الأفق لتحريض حكومات الدول المسلمة ضد كل نشاط إسلامي تحت ذريعة مواجهة خطر ما يسمى "الإرهاب" و"التطرف"، على الرغم من تأكيدات كبار المثقفين والمفكرين الغربيين على حقيقة أن "الإرهاب" سببه الأصلي هو شن الحروب ضد الدول واللجوء إلى أساليب الابتزاز والتهديد العسكري في فرض المطامع والأهداف.
States continue its Western allies of the United States utilizing every opportunity on the horizon to incite Muslim governments against all Islamic activity under the pretext of the so-called counter the threat of "terrorism" and "extremism", despite assurances from senior Western thinkers and intellectuals to the fact that "terrorism" because the original Is waging war against the State and resort to methods of blackmail and the threat of the imposition of military ambitions and goals. وقد وقع الانفجار بعد ساعات من إلقاء الرئيس الباكستاني آصف زرداري أرمل رئيسة الوزراء السابقة بينظير بوتو خطابه الأول أمام البرلمان على بعد بضعة مئات من الأمتار من الفندق ودعا فيه لتصعيد الحرب على الإسلاميين باسم "مكافحة الإرهاب".
The explosion occurred hours after delivering a widower Asif Ali Zardari Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, his first address to parliament a few hundred meters from the hotel in which he called for the escalation of the war on the Islamists as "the fight against terrorism."
http://islammemo.cc/akhbar/arab/2008/09/21/69814.html
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Les Maîtres de la Défaite : un Empire américain en déconfiture
Où que l’on porte son regard, la politique impériale des Etats-Unis subit des défaites militaires et diplomatiques de grande ampleur. Avec le soutien du Congrès Démocrate des Etats-Unis, la poursuite par une Maison-Blanche républicaine d’une approche militaire du meccano de l’Empire a conduit à un déclin d’ampleur mondiale de l’influence américaine, au réalignement d’anciens régimes-clients sur des adversaires de l’Empire (américain), à l’émergence d’hégémons concurrents et à la perte de sources vitales de matières premières stratégiques.
Où que l’on porte son regard, la politique impériale des Etats-Unis subit des défaites militaires et diplomatiques de grande ampleur. Avec le soutien du Congrès Démocrate des Etats-Unis, la poursuite par une Maison-Blanche républicaine d’une approche militaire du meccano de l’Empire a conduit à un déclin d’ampleur mondiale de l’influence américaine, au réalignement d’anciens régimes-clients sur des adversaires de l’Empire (américain), à l’émergence d’hégémons concurrents et à la perte de sources vitales de matières premières stratégiques. Les défaites et les pertes n’ont (pourtant) en rien douché l’enthousiasme des stratèges, ni mis un terme à une frénésie d’édification d’un empire.
Au contraire : tant la Maison-Blanche que les membres actuels du Congrès ont adopté un durcissement des positions militaires, réitéré un style agressif de politique et une dépendance accrue vis-à-vis de l’outremer, ainsi qu’une posture belliqueuse visant à distraire le peuple américaine de la dégradation de ses conditions de vie. Tandis que le coût économique et politique d’entretien de l’Empire ne fait que s’accroître, tandis que le gouvernement fédéral alloue des centaines de milliards de dollars à un secteur financier mité par les crises et opère des coupes de plusieurs dizaines de milliards dans les taxes sur les profits des entreprises, afin d’essayer d’éviter les faillites et la récession, c’est l’ensemble du fardeau économique qui est supporté par les salariés, sous la forme d’un niveau de vie déclinant, tandis que douze millions d’ouvriers immigrés sont en butte à une sauvage répression de l’Etat.
Les échecs outre-mer et les crises à l’intérieur, toutefois, n’ont abouti à l’apparition d’aucune alternative progressiste : les bénéficiaires en sont les concurrents des Etats-Unis, outre-océan, et l’élite américaine. Dans une large mesure, là où des majorités de l’opinion publique ont exprimé un désir (voire, ont réclamé à cor et à cris) des alternatives progressistes, elles ont été rembarrées par des représentants politiques liés à des idéologues militaristes et aux élites entrepreneuriales.
Paradoxalement, les défaites et le déclin du meccano d’empire américain sous emprise militaire se sont accompagnés du reflux des mouvements anti-guerre en Amérique du Nord et en Europe occidentale, ainsi que du déclin vertigineux des partis et des régimes politiques opposés à l’impérialisme US dans les capitales de tous les pays capitalistes avancés. Autrement dit, les défaites subies par l’Empire états-unien n’ont pas été produites par la gauche occidentale, et elles n’ont par conséquent produit aucun « dividende de la paix », ni même des conditions de vie améliorées, pour les classes laborieuses ou pour les paysans. Pour autant qu’elles aient bénéficié à quelqu’un, c’est essentiellement à des pays aspirant depuis peu à l’impérialisme économique, comme la Chine, la Russie ou l’Inde, ou encore à de riches pays pétroliers du Moyen-Orient, mais surtout parmi à un vaste ensemble de pays exportateurs de ressources agro-minérales, comme le Brésil, l’Afrique du Sud et l’Iran, qui se sont taillé de confortables « niches » économiques dans leurs régions respectives.
La croissance et l’expansion outre-mer des nouveaux pays bâtisseurs d’empire(s) économique(s), ainsi que leurs classes dirigeantes agro-minéralo-financières (à la possible exception du Venezuela) ont grandement bénéficié à une minuscule élite ne comprenant jamais plus d’un cinquième de leur population générale.
Le déclin relatif de l’impérialisme militaire états-unien et l’ascension de nouvelles puissances impérialistes économiques ont redistribué la richesse et les parts de marché entre pays, mais non pas entre classes, au sein des puissances montantes. Si ce sont les spéculateurs militaristes-sionistes-financiers qui dirigent l’Empire américain, c’est, en revanche, les industriels nouveaux milliardaires, les spéculateurs de l’immobilier et les exportateurs de matières premières agro-minérales qui dirigent les nouveaux empires économiques en cours d’émergence.
Relevons un deuxième paradoxe dans le fait que les forces politiques qui sont en train de dézinguer l’empire américain militaro-centré ne sont pas les mêmes que celles qui bénéficient de la guerre…
Si les résistances irakienne et afghane ayant imposé un coût s’élevant au minimum à trois milliards de dollars au Trésor américain et cloué au sol plus de deux millions de militaires américains en rotation dans ces contrées durant les six années écoulées, ce sont les Chinois, les Indiens, les Russes, les Européens, les classes dirigeantes et financières du pétrole du Golfe qui ont récolté les bénéfices d’énormes dépenses américaines improductives. Si les nouveaux bénéficiaires sur le plan économique sont, dans une large mesure, laïcs, impérialistes et élitistes, les forces politico-militaires qui sont en train de saper et de battre l’Empire militaire américain sont des forces religieuses (islamiques), nationalistes et fondées sur l’adhésion des masses.
Les défaites actuelles du meccano de l’Empire militaire américain ne sont pas le produit de mouvements occidentaux, laïcs, de gauche, de masse. Elles ne se traduisent pas non plus dans une société progressiste ou égalitaire.
Non : en lieu et place, nous assistons à des inégalités économiques criantes se développant à très grande vitesse, dictées par des classes dirigeantes qui font la promo de leurs propres versions « nationales » des stratégies néolibérales à base de liberté des marchés et de stratégies maximisant les profits, à travers l’exploitation économique du travail, de l’extraction jusqu’à l’épuisement des ressources naturelles et du pillage de l’environnement. Tant que les mouvements de masses, les intellectuels et les militants de l’Occident ne se départiront pas de leur passivité et de leur allégeance aveugle vis-à-vis des plus grands partis politiques existants, la défaite du militarisme US restera un fardeau coûteux, assumé par les masses du Tiers-Monde, tandis que les bénéfices afflueront vers les nouveaux impérialistes économiques nouveaux milliardaires, en pleine expansion.
Géographie des défaites et de la Berezina de l’Empire
Le Moyen-Orient : l’Irak et l’Iran
L’ascension du meccano d’Empire à direction militaire aux Etats-Unis a, une fois de plus, mis en évidence son incapacité absolue d’imposer un nouvel ordre impérial. Après six ans et demi de guerre et d’occupation en Irak, les Etats-Unis ont subi des pertes militaires effroyables et des pertes économiques s’élevant à plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars sans avoir pu, pour autant, s’assurer un quelconque gain, ni en matière politique, ni en matière militaire, ni prosaïquement en termes de ressources naturelles. Les pertes entraînées par la guerre ont généré une opposition domestique à l’intervention militaire américaine qui ne cesse de saper la capacité militaire actuelle et future de l’Empire. Il n’est pas jusqu’au chef de pacotille installé par les Etats-Unis à la tête de l’Irak, Al-Maliki qui n’ait osé exiger une date ferme pour le retrait des Etats-Unis.
L’autre client des Etats-Unis, en Afghanistan, cette fois, le président Kharzai, a réclamé un droit de regard accru sur les opérations militaires américaines, qui ont tué des dizaines de non-combattants et de civils, ne faisant, de ce fait, qu’approfondir et étendre le soutien de la population afghane à la résistance nationale, qui opère désormais absolument partout en Afghanistan.
Pour ceux, aux Etats-Unis (et en particulier à « gôche ») qui arguaient erronément du fait que l’invasion de l’Irak aurait été « une guerre pour le pétrole » (et non ce qu’elle était en réalité, à savoir une guerre visant à soutenir les ambitions hégémoniques d’Israël), la signature par l’Irak d’un contrat de fourniture de pétrole, pour un montant de 3 milliards de dollars avec la China National Petroleum Corporation, fin août [1], démontre le contraire, à moins que les tenants du « Pas de sang pour du pétrole ! » soient prêts à revoir leur slogan, pour en faire : « Non à une guerre américaine pour le pétrole chinois ! »… Tout au long des six années consécutives à l’invasion de l’Irak par les Etats-Unis, les compagnies pétrolières américaines n’ont jusqu’ici jamais réussi à obtenir le moindre marché pétrolier qui fût digne d’être mentionné.
Les 4 et 5 octobre, la Shell, une des plus grandes multinationales pétrolières du monde, et OMV, une firme énergétique australienne vont parrainer une conférence, à Téhéran, sous les auspices de la National Iranian Gaz Export Company, afin de promouvoir « les opportunités d’exportations de gaz et les potentialités gazières de la République Islamique d’Iran ». Cette conférence n’est qu’un exemple de plus du rôle joué par les majors du pétrole, qui s’efforcent, par des moyens pacifiques, de bâtir leurs holdings transocéaniques (l’ « empire économique »). La plus importante opposition à cette initiative « pétrole contre la paix » de la Shell Oil est venue du principal promoteur judéo-sioniste de l’engagement américain dans les guerres moyen-orientales pour les beaux yeux d’Israël, j’ai nommé l’Anti-Defamation League, qui a fustigé « Big Oil », les « grossiums du pétrole »…
Selon ses deux principaux dirigeants, Glen Lewy et Abe Foxman,
« … ces deux firmes sont en train de sponsoriser une conférence avec la compagnie d’Etat du principal pays encourageant le terrorisme et grand violateur des droits humains devant l’Eternel. Mais en sponsorisant comme elles le font une des industries stratégiques de l’Iran - le gaz naturel -, OMV et Shell portent atteinte aux efforts déployés par les Etats responsables (sic) et par de nombreuses entreprises, afin d’isoler l’Iran ».
Le conflit entre Shell/OMV et la principale organisation siono-juive américaine met en évidence le conflit fondamental opposant le meccano de l’Empire économique et celui de l’Empire militaire. Le fait que Shell et OMV aient poursuivi leur préparation de la conférence en Iran démontre que certains secteurs, tout au moins, de l’industrie pétrolière, commencent, enfin, à défier la mainmise des siono-militaristes sur la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis. Après avoir perdu des dizaines de milliards de dollars en contrats pétroliers lucratifs, « grâce » aux politiques dictées par les sionistes, les compagnies pétrolières sont tout juste en train (enfin !) d’ébaucher de premiers pas en direction de la formulation d’une nouvelle politique.
En poursuivant l’agenda israélo/siono-américain de guerres séquentielles et de sanctions contre de riches pays pétroliers musulmans, Washington a perdu l’accès, le contrôle et les profits qui en découlent, à l’avantage de concurrents économiques de taille mondiale, d’une une région particulièrement stratégique.
Afrique
En Somalie, Washington a opté pour l’intervention militaire via le régime éthiopien dictatorial comparse de Meles Zenawi, afin de soutenir le régime fantoche failli et pro-américain d’Abdullah Yusuf.
Après près de deux ans, l’Ethiopie et le régime fantoche ne contrôlent qu’à grand-peine que deux pâtés de maisons de la capitale Mogadishu, tandis que le reste du pays est aux mains de la résistance somalie. D’après le Financial Times [2], le régime éthiopien a « exprimé un désir de réduire, voire de cesser, son engagement militaire en Somalie ». Le vassal des Etats-Unis a été défait tant militairement que politiquement, les Etats-Unis ont échoué à garantir un soutien de l’Union Africaine à son occupation par délégation.
Dans l’ensemble de l’Afrique, la Chine, l’Union européenne, le Japon, la Russie, ainsi (dans une moindre mesure) que l’Inde et le Brésil ont, tous, réalisé de grandes percées vers la certitude d’obtenir des joint ventures dans le pétrole, les matières premières, les marchés d’exportation et des investissements de grande ampleur (et de très long-terme, dans les infrastructures), tandis que les Etats-Unis soutenaient des commandos séparatistes au Soudan et finançaient le régime corrompu de Moubarak en Egypte, pour un montant annuel de plus d’un milliard de dollars. Non seulement l’empire américain a cédé le terrain, sur le plan économique, à ses concurrents mondiaux, mais il a subi une défaite militaro-diplomatique majeure en Somalie et il a très gravement affaibli son vassal éthiopien, tant politiquement que financièrement.
Asie du Sud
En Asie du Sud, le gouvernant fantoche stratégique des Etats-Unis, le dictateur pakistanais Musharraf a été contraint à la démission - et la coalition électorale, faible et divisée, qui le remplace, n’a pas été capable d’être au niveau de soutien militaire, diplomatique et informationnel qu’assurait Musharraf à la guerre américaine en Afghanistan. La frontière pakistano-afghane est virtuellement un territoire ouvert pour des attaques transfrontalières, pour le recrutement et pour la fourniture en armes des organisations résistantes afghanes. La perte de Musharraf par l’Empire américain ne fait que saper davantage les efforts des Etats-Unis visant à imposer leur avant-poste en Afghanistan.
A travers de fréquentes attaques terrestres et aériennes contre des régions pakistanaises frontalières de l’Afghanistan, la « coalition » Etats-Unis-Otan a multiplié, approfondi et rendue massive l’opposition civile, politique, et aussi l’opposition armée et ce, dans l’ensemble du pays. La soi-disant « élection » du vassal des Etats-Unis, ci-devant seigneur de la guerre et malfrat Asif Ali Zadari, au poste de président du Pakistan, ne contribuera pas, quoi qu’il en soit, à la récupération par les Etats-Unis de leur influence, au-delà d’une élite politique extrêmement restreinte et de cercles militaires extrêmement limités. La recherche et l’extension de leur impérialisme militaire de l’Afghanistan vers le Pakistan par les Etats-Unis les a conduits à une défaite politique d’autant plus sévère dans la population de la quasi-totalité de l’Asie du Sud.
Des généraux et des officiers supérieurs de l’Otan ont reconnu que les ainsi dits « Taliban » ont réorganisé et étendu leur influence dans l’ensemble de l’Afghanistan, qu’ils contrôlent désormais la plupart des voies d’accès aux grandes villes et qu’ils opèrent y compris autour et à l’intérieur de la capitale Kaboul. Des bombardements et des frappes par missiles américains répétés ont généré une opposition quasi-unanime envers le gouverneur de pacotille Karzai. Les engagements de l’un comme de l’autre candidat à la présidence américaine de renforcer considérablement les forces d’occupation en Afghanistan dès qu’il se sera installé aux manettes du pouvoir ne font que prolonger la guerre et approfondir l’affaiblissement de l’empire et économique, ainsi que ses fondations internes.
Le Caucase
La tentative de Washington d’étendre sa sphère d’influence au Caucase, au moyen d’un larcin territorial par son vassal géorgien autoritaire, le président Mikheil Saakashvili, a abouti, en lieu et place, à une profonde défaite des ambitions régionales de ce satrape régional. La sécession politique et l’intégration à la Russie de l’Ossétie du Sud et de l’Abkhazie représentent la fin de l’expansion illimitée des Etats-Unis et de l’Union européenne dans cette région du monde - ainsi qu’un recul considérable de ce terrain contesté. L’aventurisme dément de Saakashvili et la destruction de l’économie géorgienne qui en a découlé ont provoqué un désordre interne généralisé (en Géorgie).
Pire encore : la Géorgie, les Etats-Unis et ses clients est-européens en appellent à des « sanctions » contre la Russie, menacent de saper les pipelines stratégiques approvisionnant en énergie l’Europe de l’Ouest, et de mettre un terme à la collaboration de Moscou à la politique militaire des Etats-Unis en Afghanistan, en Iran et au Moyen-Orient. Si Washington poursuit son escalade dans ses menaces militaires et économiques contre la Russie, celle-ci pourrait fournir à l’Iran, à la Syrie et à d’autres ennemis des Etats-Unis de puissants missiles anti-aériens ultramodernes de moyenne portée. Tout aussi grave : la Russie peut très rapidement se débarrasser de 200 milliards de dollars qu’elle détient sous la forme de bons du Trésor américain, affaiblissant d’autant le dollar et initiant ainsi une débandade mondiale de cette devise.
En Géorgie, comme ailleurs, le meccano de l’empire économique américain accorde la priorité à des larcins faillis d’avance de territoires par un pays vassal de troisième catégorie, au détriment de relations stratégiques, économiques et militaires fructueuses avec la principale puissance énergétique mondiale, qui est aussi son collaborateur crucial dans ses opérations en cours au Moyen-Orient. Tandis que les relations économiques des Etats-Unis avec la Russie s’effritent, en conséquence de leur politique militaire agressive d’encerclement de Moscou - avec des bases militaires américaines en République tchèque, en Pologne, en Géorgie, en Bulgarie, en Roumanie - les bâtisseurs de l’Empire ouest-européen s’abstiennent de proférer des menaces militaires, s’en tenant à une rhétorique virile et au « dialogue », en vue de renforcer leurs relations énergétiques stratégiques avec la Russie…
Moyen-Orient / monde arabe
Au Moyen-Orient, le soutien inconditionnel des Etats-Unis à l’agression militaire israélienne au Liban, en Palestine et en Syrie, ainsi que le soutien américain apporté à des vassaux arabes faibles et ineptes, ont entraîné un déclin vertical de l’influence américaine. Au Liban, depuis la défaite de l’invasion israélienne de 2006, le Hezbollah gouverne littéralement la moitié Sud du pays - et il détient un véto sur le gouvernement libanais, ce qui revient à dire qu’il est en mesure de renverser le gouvernement libanais actuel, vassal des Américains.
A Gaza, les tentatives américaines et israéliennes de s’emparer du pouvoir et d’évincer le Hamas, via leur féal Abbas et leur marionnette Dahlan, ont été déjouées et elles ont fait long-feu, tandis que le mouvement indépendantiste nationaliste palestinien, sous la direction du Hamas, a renforcé son pouvoir.
La velléité de Washington de recouvrer son influence et d’améliorer son image de marque auprès des gouvernants conservateurs et modérés en assurant la « médiation » d’un accord de paix entre Israël et la ‘Palestine’, à Annapolis, en novembre 2007, a été totalement foutue en l’air par la répudiation effrontée et totale par Tel Aviv de toutes les conditions fondamentales mises en avant par l’administration Bush. Washington n’a strictement aucune influence sur l’expansion coloniale sioniste.
Au contraire, la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis est totalement soumise à l’Etat israélien, à travers la Configuration du Pouvoir Sioniste et son contrôle sur le Congrès, sur le choix des candidats à la présidence, sur les mass médias et sur les principaux ‘think tanks’ de la propagande.
Les sionistes ont apporté la démonstration du pouvoir qui est le leur en édictant qui pouvait, et qui ne pouvait pas, ne serait-ce que prendre la parole à la Convention Nationale Démocrate, qui a connu - cerise sur le gâteau - une censure sans aucun précédent à l’encontre du président James Carter en raison de ses critiques humanitaires contre la politique israélienne à l’encontre des Palestiniens. L’usurpation siono-israélienne de la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis a entraîné la perte d’investissements, de marchés, de profits potentiels et de partenariats stratégiques pour l’ensemble de l’industrie multinationale du pétrole et du gaz. La fusion politique entre militaristes impérialistes confrontés à la Russie, au prix de relations économiques stratégiques et la poursuite par les militaristes sionistes de l’hégémonie régionale israélienne ont conduit à de multiples aventures militaires pitoyables et, ce, au prix de pertes économiques mondiales terrifiantes.
Le monde occidental
La mise en œuvre de cette stratégie militariste, ainsi que le déclin relatif de l’hégémonie économique ont conduit à des défaites stratégiques et à des échecs, dans le monde occidental. A la fin 2001, Washington défia et menaça de représailles le président vénézuélien Chavez qui refusait de se soumettre à la guerre de Bush contre « la terreur ». Chavez, à l’époque, fit savoir à un représentant particulièrement hargneux des Etats-Unis (Grossman) ceci : « Nous ne combattrons pas la terreur au moyen de la terreur ! ». Moins de six mois après, en avril 2003, Washington soutenait un coup d’Etat militaire foireux contre Chavez et, entre décembre 2002 et février 2003, un lockout économique (qui fit un flop total), à l’initiative des patrons vénézuéliens.
L’échec de la stratégie militariste américaine a dévasté l’armée et les clients de Washington au sein de la classe dirigeante vénézuélienne, et il n’a fait que radicaliser davantage le gouvernement Chavez. En conséquence, le dirigeant du Venezuela a nationalisé le pétrole et le gaz, et il a développé des relations stratégiques avec des pays en compétition, voire totalement opposés à l’Empire américain, tels que Cuba, l’Iran, la Chine et la Russie. En Amérique latine, le Venezuela a conclu des accords économiques stratégiques avec l’Argentine, la Bolivie, l’Equateur, Cuba et le Nicaragua. Tandis que Washington déversait plus de 6 milliards de dollars d’aide militaire sur la Colombie, le Venezuela signait des investissements pétroliers et gaziers, ainsi que des accords commerciaux, avec la plupart des pays d’Amérique centrale et de la Caraïbe, remettant sérieusement en question l’influence de Washington dans ces régions du monde.
Des prix des matières premières exorbitants, des marchés asiatiques en plein boom, des taxes et des subventions américaines inacceptables ont conduit à une relative indépendance des régimes « capitalistes nationaux » de l’Amérique latine, qui ont adopté le « néolibéralisme » sans les contraintes du FMI et sans les diktats de Washington. Dans ces circonstances, les Etats-Unis ont perdu le plus gros de leur influence - mis à part les menaces militaires du régime colombien - dont ils auraient besoin pour inciter l’Amérique latine à isoler Chavez - voire même Cuba. C’est la stratégie militaire adoptée par Washington qui est la cause de son propre auto-isolement.
Les conséquences, outre-mer, de stratégies militaires condamnées à l’échec
L’isolement américain en Amérique latine ne saurait être solutionné, car la poursuite de l’Empire par Washington, via son agression militaire incessante - dans le reste du monde, et en particulier en Amérique latine - ne saurait rivaliser avec les profits, la richesse, les opportunités d’investir et de faire du commerce offerts aux classes dirigeantes d’Amérique latine par les nouveaux marchés en Russie, au Moyen-Orient, en Asie, ainsi que par le Venezuela, un pays riche, grâce à son pétrole.
La stratégie impériale militariste de Washington apparaît très clairement dans sa politique duplice : mise en priorité de la dépense de 6 milliards de dollars en aide à la répression colombienne, tout en sacrifiant pour plus de 10 milliards de dollars en échanges commerciaux, en investissements et profits avec le riche pays pétrolier qu’est le Venezuela. Washington a gaspillé plus de 500 milliards de dollars dans ses agressions contre l’Afghanistan et l’Irak ; des milliards de dollars sont consacrés aux préparatifs d’agression contre l’Iran ; plus de 3 milliards de dollars sont gaspillés annuellement au profit de la soldatesque israélienne ; le tout, sans cesser un seul instant de perdre des centaines de milliards de dollars de commerce et d’investissements croisés avec l’Amérique latine.
L’aspect le plus frappant de cette contradiction historique réside dans le fait que les dépenses militaires inhérentes à un meccano d’empire centré sur l’armée ont échoué, y compris dans leur objectif minimaliste d’acquisition de contrôle politique, d’avant-postes militaires et de matières premières stratégiques du point de vue militaire. Par contraste, les concurrents des Etats-Unis sur le marché globalisé se sont assurés de l’accès à (suivi du contrôle sur) les ressources naturelles stratégiques, et ils ont signés de lucratifs accords de coopération politique sans aucun engagement militaire coûteux…
Les conséquences intérieures d’un meccano d’empire à dominante militaire
Le coût du meccano d’empire sous la houlette siono-militaire, pour l’économie américaine, a été dévastateur : la compétitivité a décliné, l’inflation ronge le niveau de vie, l’emploi en contrepartie de salaires stables et décents est en train de disparaître, le chômage et les licenciements suivent une courbe asymptotique, le système financier est totalement déconnecté de l’économie réelle, et il est sur le point de s’effondrer, les saisies de maisons atteignent des niveaux catastrophiques et les contribuables sont saignés à blanc afin de combler la dette des spéculateurs gagée sur les prêts immobiliers, qui atteint le millier de milliards de dollars. Le malaise politique est général.
Au milieu d’une crise d’ampleur mondiale, un Etat policier a étendu son emprise : des milliers de travailleurs migrants, légaux et sans papiers ont été arrêtés sur leurs chantiers et dans leurs usines et détenus dans des camps militaires, loin de leurs enfants. Des associations musulmanes et des associations arabes font l’objet de perquisitions violentes ; elles sont poursuivies en justice sur le témoignage d’informateurs stipendiés, dont des « témoins » israéliens dûment cagoulés.
La police fédérale (étatique, sur l’ensemble des Etats-Unis) et la police locale (particulière à chaque Etat) pratiquent la « détention préventive » de militants et de journalistes avant les conventions en vue du choix des candidats à l’élection présidentielle, arrêtant des protestataires avant qu’ils aient pu exercer leurs droits constitutionnels et détruisant systématiquement les caméras, les appareils photo et les films réalisés par des citoyens essayant d’enregistrer les passages à tabac. L’impérialisme militaire failli amène lentement mais sûrement un Etat policier pléthorique - soutenu tant par les démocrates que par les républicains - afin de tenter de faire face à des crises économiques qui menacent les fondations politiques et sociales d’un empire aux pieds d’argile.
Conclusion
La crise économique, à quelques semaines des élections américaines, n’a pas abouti à l’émergence d’un candidat alternatif progressiste qui fût susceptible de s’appuyer sur les masses. Les compétiteurs, tant démocrate que républicain, promettent de prolonger et d’étendre les guerres impérialistes, et ils se soumettent à un dictat militaire israélo-sioniste sans aucun précédent, en ce qui concerne le contentieux avec l’Iran.
Les crises gigognes et les multiples défaites militaires n’ont entraîné aucune reprise en considération des engagements globaux des Etats-Unis, tant économiques que militaires. En lieu et place, nous assistons à une radicalisation de la droite américaine, qui cherche à aggraver les confrontations avec la Chine, avec la Russie et avec l’Iran. Les Etats-Unis entraînent derrière eux les régimes qui leur sont liges en Europe orientale, au Caucase et dans les pays baltes afin de contrer l’accent mis par l’Europe occidentale sur la dominante « économique » de son propre meccano d’empire.
La réalité, qui est celle d’un monde économique multipolaire, toutefois, sape les efforts américains visant à imposer une confrontation militaire bipolaire. La Chine détient 1,2 milliers de milliards de dollars de la dette extérieure américaine. L’Europe occidentale, de manière générale, dépend de la Russie pour plus d’un tiers de son énergie, pour ses foyers, ses bureaux et ses usines. L’Allemagne en dépend pour près de 60 % en matière de gaz naturel. Les économies asiatiques : Japon, Inde, Chine, Vietnam et Corée du Sud dépendent, toutes, du pétrole du Moyen-Orient et en aucun cas elles ne dépendent des projets guerriers des militaristes israélo-américains au Moyen-Orient… Le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine, l’Afrique du Sud, le Venezuela et l’Iran sont des pays absolument essentiels pour le fonctionnement de l’économie mondiale.
Au moins autant que l’axe Etats-Unis-Israël-Royaume-Uni est tout-à-fait incapable de maintenir son empire sur les bases de stratégies militaires foireuses à l’extérieur et d’un désastre économique accompagné d’un état policier chez eux.
James Petras pour Dissident Voice
Traduction : Michel Charbonnier, ISM-France
Notes :
[1] Financial Times, 28.08.2008
[2] 28.08.2008
Où que l’on porte son regard, la politique impériale des Etats-Unis subit des défaites militaires et diplomatiques de grande ampleur. Avec le soutien du Congrès Démocrate des Etats-Unis, la poursuite par une Maison-Blanche républicaine d’une approche militaire du meccano de l’Empire a conduit à un déclin d’ampleur mondiale de l’influence américaine, au réalignement d’anciens régimes-clients sur des adversaires de l’Empire (américain), à l’émergence d’hégémons concurrents et à la perte de sources vitales de matières premières stratégiques. Les défaites et les pertes n’ont (pourtant) en rien douché l’enthousiasme des stratèges, ni mis un terme à une frénésie d’édification d’un empire.
Au contraire : tant la Maison-Blanche que les membres actuels du Congrès ont adopté un durcissement des positions militaires, réitéré un style agressif de politique et une dépendance accrue vis-à-vis de l’outremer, ainsi qu’une posture belliqueuse visant à distraire le peuple américaine de la dégradation de ses conditions de vie. Tandis que le coût économique et politique d’entretien de l’Empire ne fait que s’accroître, tandis que le gouvernement fédéral alloue des centaines de milliards de dollars à un secteur financier mité par les crises et opère des coupes de plusieurs dizaines de milliards dans les taxes sur les profits des entreprises, afin d’essayer d’éviter les faillites et la récession, c’est l’ensemble du fardeau économique qui est supporté par les salariés, sous la forme d’un niveau de vie déclinant, tandis que douze millions d’ouvriers immigrés sont en butte à une sauvage répression de l’Etat.
Les échecs outre-mer et les crises à l’intérieur, toutefois, n’ont abouti à l’apparition d’aucune alternative progressiste : les bénéficiaires en sont les concurrents des Etats-Unis, outre-océan, et l’élite américaine. Dans une large mesure, là où des majorités de l’opinion publique ont exprimé un désir (voire, ont réclamé à cor et à cris) des alternatives progressistes, elles ont été rembarrées par des représentants politiques liés à des idéologues militaristes et aux élites entrepreneuriales.
Paradoxalement, les défaites et le déclin du meccano d’empire américain sous emprise militaire se sont accompagnés du reflux des mouvements anti-guerre en Amérique du Nord et en Europe occidentale, ainsi que du déclin vertigineux des partis et des régimes politiques opposés à l’impérialisme US dans les capitales de tous les pays capitalistes avancés. Autrement dit, les défaites subies par l’Empire états-unien n’ont pas été produites par la gauche occidentale, et elles n’ont par conséquent produit aucun « dividende de la paix », ni même des conditions de vie améliorées, pour les classes laborieuses ou pour les paysans. Pour autant qu’elles aient bénéficié à quelqu’un, c’est essentiellement à des pays aspirant depuis peu à l’impérialisme économique, comme la Chine, la Russie ou l’Inde, ou encore à de riches pays pétroliers du Moyen-Orient, mais surtout parmi à un vaste ensemble de pays exportateurs de ressources agro-minérales, comme le Brésil, l’Afrique du Sud et l’Iran, qui se sont taillé de confortables « niches » économiques dans leurs régions respectives.
La croissance et l’expansion outre-mer des nouveaux pays bâtisseurs d’empire(s) économique(s), ainsi que leurs classes dirigeantes agro-minéralo-financières (à la possible exception du Venezuela) ont grandement bénéficié à une minuscule élite ne comprenant jamais plus d’un cinquième de leur population générale.
Le déclin relatif de l’impérialisme militaire états-unien et l’ascension de nouvelles puissances impérialistes économiques ont redistribué la richesse et les parts de marché entre pays, mais non pas entre classes, au sein des puissances montantes. Si ce sont les spéculateurs militaristes-sionistes-financiers qui dirigent l’Empire américain, c’est, en revanche, les industriels nouveaux milliardaires, les spéculateurs de l’immobilier et les exportateurs de matières premières agro-minérales qui dirigent les nouveaux empires économiques en cours d’émergence.
Relevons un deuxième paradoxe dans le fait que les forces politiques qui sont en train de dézinguer l’empire américain militaro-centré ne sont pas les mêmes que celles qui bénéficient de la guerre…
Si les résistances irakienne et afghane ayant imposé un coût s’élevant au minimum à trois milliards de dollars au Trésor américain et cloué au sol plus de deux millions de militaires américains en rotation dans ces contrées durant les six années écoulées, ce sont les Chinois, les Indiens, les Russes, les Européens, les classes dirigeantes et financières du pétrole du Golfe qui ont récolté les bénéfices d’énormes dépenses américaines improductives. Si les nouveaux bénéficiaires sur le plan économique sont, dans une large mesure, laïcs, impérialistes et élitistes, les forces politico-militaires qui sont en train de saper et de battre l’Empire militaire américain sont des forces religieuses (islamiques), nationalistes et fondées sur l’adhésion des masses.
Les défaites actuelles du meccano de l’Empire militaire américain ne sont pas le produit de mouvements occidentaux, laïcs, de gauche, de masse. Elles ne se traduisent pas non plus dans une société progressiste ou égalitaire.
Non : en lieu et place, nous assistons à des inégalités économiques criantes se développant à très grande vitesse, dictées par des classes dirigeantes qui font la promo de leurs propres versions « nationales » des stratégies néolibérales à base de liberté des marchés et de stratégies maximisant les profits, à travers l’exploitation économique du travail, de l’extraction jusqu’à l’épuisement des ressources naturelles et du pillage de l’environnement. Tant que les mouvements de masses, les intellectuels et les militants de l’Occident ne se départiront pas de leur passivité et de leur allégeance aveugle vis-à-vis des plus grands partis politiques existants, la défaite du militarisme US restera un fardeau coûteux, assumé par les masses du Tiers-Monde, tandis que les bénéfices afflueront vers les nouveaux impérialistes économiques nouveaux milliardaires, en pleine expansion.
Géographie des défaites et de la Berezina de l’Empire
Le Moyen-Orient : l’Irak et l’Iran
L’ascension du meccano d’Empire à direction militaire aux Etats-Unis a, une fois de plus, mis en évidence son incapacité absolue d’imposer un nouvel ordre impérial. Après six ans et demi de guerre et d’occupation en Irak, les Etats-Unis ont subi des pertes militaires effroyables et des pertes économiques s’élevant à plus d’un demi-milliard de dollars sans avoir pu, pour autant, s’assurer un quelconque gain, ni en matière politique, ni en matière militaire, ni prosaïquement en termes de ressources naturelles. Les pertes entraînées par la guerre ont généré une opposition domestique à l’intervention militaire américaine qui ne cesse de saper la capacité militaire actuelle et future de l’Empire. Il n’est pas jusqu’au chef de pacotille installé par les Etats-Unis à la tête de l’Irak, Al-Maliki qui n’ait osé exiger une date ferme pour le retrait des Etats-Unis.
L’autre client des Etats-Unis, en Afghanistan, cette fois, le président Kharzai, a réclamé un droit de regard accru sur les opérations militaires américaines, qui ont tué des dizaines de non-combattants et de civils, ne faisant, de ce fait, qu’approfondir et étendre le soutien de la population afghane à la résistance nationale, qui opère désormais absolument partout en Afghanistan.
Pour ceux, aux Etats-Unis (et en particulier à « gôche ») qui arguaient erronément du fait que l’invasion de l’Irak aurait été « une guerre pour le pétrole » (et non ce qu’elle était en réalité, à savoir une guerre visant à soutenir les ambitions hégémoniques d’Israël), la signature par l’Irak d’un contrat de fourniture de pétrole, pour un montant de 3 milliards de dollars avec la China National Petroleum Corporation, fin août [1], démontre le contraire, à moins que les tenants du « Pas de sang pour du pétrole ! » soient prêts à revoir leur slogan, pour en faire : « Non à une guerre américaine pour le pétrole chinois ! »… Tout au long des six années consécutives à l’invasion de l’Irak par les Etats-Unis, les compagnies pétrolières américaines n’ont jusqu’ici jamais réussi à obtenir le moindre marché pétrolier qui fût digne d’être mentionné.
Les 4 et 5 octobre, la Shell, une des plus grandes multinationales pétrolières du monde, et OMV, une firme énergétique australienne vont parrainer une conférence, à Téhéran, sous les auspices de la National Iranian Gaz Export Company, afin de promouvoir « les opportunités d’exportations de gaz et les potentialités gazières de la République Islamique d’Iran ». Cette conférence n’est qu’un exemple de plus du rôle joué par les majors du pétrole, qui s’efforcent, par des moyens pacifiques, de bâtir leurs holdings transocéaniques (l’ « empire économique »). La plus importante opposition à cette initiative « pétrole contre la paix » de la Shell Oil est venue du principal promoteur judéo-sioniste de l’engagement américain dans les guerres moyen-orientales pour les beaux yeux d’Israël, j’ai nommé l’Anti-Defamation League, qui a fustigé « Big Oil », les « grossiums du pétrole »…
Selon ses deux principaux dirigeants, Glen Lewy et Abe Foxman,
« … ces deux firmes sont en train de sponsoriser une conférence avec la compagnie d’Etat du principal pays encourageant le terrorisme et grand violateur des droits humains devant l’Eternel. Mais en sponsorisant comme elles le font une des industries stratégiques de l’Iran - le gaz naturel -, OMV et Shell portent atteinte aux efforts déployés par les Etats responsables (sic) et par de nombreuses entreprises, afin d’isoler l’Iran ».
Le conflit entre Shell/OMV et la principale organisation siono-juive américaine met en évidence le conflit fondamental opposant le meccano de l’Empire économique et celui de l’Empire militaire. Le fait que Shell et OMV aient poursuivi leur préparation de la conférence en Iran démontre que certains secteurs, tout au moins, de l’industrie pétrolière, commencent, enfin, à défier la mainmise des siono-militaristes sur la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis. Après avoir perdu des dizaines de milliards de dollars en contrats pétroliers lucratifs, « grâce » aux politiques dictées par les sionistes, les compagnies pétrolières sont tout juste en train (enfin !) d’ébaucher de premiers pas en direction de la formulation d’une nouvelle politique.
En poursuivant l’agenda israélo/siono-américain de guerres séquentielles et de sanctions contre de riches pays pétroliers musulmans, Washington a perdu l’accès, le contrôle et les profits qui en découlent, à l’avantage de concurrents économiques de taille mondiale, d’une une région particulièrement stratégique.
Afrique
En Somalie, Washington a opté pour l’intervention militaire via le régime éthiopien dictatorial comparse de Meles Zenawi, afin de soutenir le régime fantoche failli et pro-américain d’Abdullah Yusuf.
Après près de deux ans, l’Ethiopie et le régime fantoche ne contrôlent qu’à grand-peine que deux pâtés de maisons de la capitale Mogadishu, tandis que le reste du pays est aux mains de la résistance somalie. D’après le Financial Times [2], le régime éthiopien a « exprimé un désir de réduire, voire de cesser, son engagement militaire en Somalie ». Le vassal des Etats-Unis a été défait tant militairement que politiquement, les Etats-Unis ont échoué à garantir un soutien de l’Union Africaine à son occupation par délégation.
Dans l’ensemble de l’Afrique, la Chine, l’Union européenne, le Japon, la Russie, ainsi (dans une moindre mesure) que l’Inde et le Brésil ont, tous, réalisé de grandes percées vers la certitude d’obtenir des joint ventures dans le pétrole, les matières premières, les marchés d’exportation et des investissements de grande ampleur (et de très long-terme, dans les infrastructures), tandis que les Etats-Unis soutenaient des commandos séparatistes au Soudan et finançaient le régime corrompu de Moubarak en Egypte, pour un montant annuel de plus d’un milliard de dollars. Non seulement l’empire américain a cédé le terrain, sur le plan économique, à ses concurrents mondiaux, mais il a subi une défaite militaro-diplomatique majeure en Somalie et il a très gravement affaibli son vassal éthiopien, tant politiquement que financièrement.
Asie du Sud
En Asie du Sud, le gouvernant fantoche stratégique des Etats-Unis, le dictateur pakistanais Musharraf a été contraint à la démission - et la coalition électorale, faible et divisée, qui le remplace, n’a pas été capable d’être au niveau de soutien militaire, diplomatique et informationnel qu’assurait Musharraf à la guerre américaine en Afghanistan. La frontière pakistano-afghane est virtuellement un territoire ouvert pour des attaques transfrontalières, pour le recrutement et pour la fourniture en armes des organisations résistantes afghanes. La perte de Musharraf par l’Empire américain ne fait que saper davantage les efforts des Etats-Unis visant à imposer leur avant-poste en Afghanistan.
A travers de fréquentes attaques terrestres et aériennes contre des régions pakistanaises frontalières de l’Afghanistan, la « coalition » Etats-Unis-Otan a multiplié, approfondi et rendue massive l’opposition civile, politique, et aussi l’opposition armée et ce, dans l’ensemble du pays. La soi-disant « élection » du vassal des Etats-Unis, ci-devant seigneur de la guerre et malfrat Asif Ali Zadari, au poste de président du Pakistan, ne contribuera pas, quoi qu’il en soit, à la récupération par les Etats-Unis de leur influence, au-delà d’une élite politique extrêmement restreinte et de cercles militaires extrêmement limités. La recherche et l’extension de leur impérialisme militaire de l’Afghanistan vers le Pakistan par les Etats-Unis les a conduits à une défaite politique d’autant plus sévère dans la population de la quasi-totalité de l’Asie du Sud.
Des généraux et des officiers supérieurs de l’Otan ont reconnu que les ainsi dits « Taliban » ont réorganisé et étendu leur influence dans l’ensemble de l’Afghanistan, qu’ils contrôlent désormais la plupart des voies d’accès aux grandes villes et qu’ils opèrent y compris autour et à l’intérieur de la capitale Kaboul. Des bombardements et des frappes par missiles américains répétés ont généré une opposition quasi-unanime envers le gouverneur de pacotille Karzai. Les engagements de l’un comme de l’autre candidat à la présidence américaine de renforcer considérablement les forces d’occupation en Afghanistan dès qu’il se sera installé aux manettes du pouvoir ne font que prolonger la guerre et approfondir l’affaiblissement de l’empire et économique, ainsi que ses fondations internes.
Le Caucase
La tentative de Washington d’étendre sa sphère d’influence au Caucase, au moyen d’un larcin territorial par son vassal géorgien autoritaire, le président Mikheil Saakashvili, a abouti, en lieu et place, à une profonde défaite des ambitions régionales de ce satrape régional. La sécession politique et l’intégration à la Russie de l’Ossétie du Sud et de l’Abkhazie représentent la fin de l’expansion illimitée des Etats-Unis et de l’Union européenne dans cette région du monde - ainsi qu’un recul considérable de ce terrain contesté. L’aventurisme dément de Saakashvili et la destruction de l’économie géorgienne qui en a découlé ont provoqué un désordre interne généralisé (en Géorgie).
Pire encore : la Géorgie, les Etats-Unis et ses clients est-européens en appellent à des « sanctions » contre la Russie, menacent de saper les pipelines stratégiques approvisionnant en énergie l’Europe de l’Ouest, et de mettre un terme à la collaboration de Moscou à la politique militaire des Etats-Unis en Afghanistan, en Iran et au Moyen-Orient. Si Washington poursuit son escalade dans ses menaces militaires et économiques contre la Russie, celle-ci pourrait fournir à l’Iran, à la Syrie et à d’autres ennemis des Etats-Unis de puissants missiles anti-aériens ultramodernes de moyenne portée. Tout aussi grave : la Russie peut très rapidement se débarrasser de 200 milliards de dollars qu’elle détient sous la forme de bons du Trésor américain, affaiblissant d’autant le dollar et initiant ainsi une débandade mondiale de cette devise.
En Géorgie, comme ailleurs, le meccano de l’empire économique américain accorde la priorité à des larcins faillis d’avance de territoires par un pays vassal de troisième catégorie, au détriment de relations stratégiques, économiques et militaires fructueuses avec la principale puissance énergétique mondiale, qui est aussi son collaborateur crucial dans ses opérations en cours au Moyen-Orient. Tandis que les relations économiques des Etats-Unis avec la Russie s’effritent, en conséquence de leur politique militaire agressive d’encerclement de Moscou - avec des bases militaires américaines en République tchèque, en Pologne, en Géorgie, en Bulgarie, en Roumanie - les bâtisseurs de l’Empire ouest-européen s’abstiennent de proférer des menaces militaires, s’en tenant à une rhétorique virile et au « dialogue », en vue de renforcer leurs relations énergétiques stratégiques avec la Russie…
Moyen-Orient / monde arabe
Au Moyen-Orient, le soutien inconditionnel des Etats-Unis à l’agression militaire israélienne au Liban, en Palestine et en Syrie, ainsi que le soutien américain apporté à des vassaux arabes faibles et ineptes, ont entraîné un déclin vertical de l’influence américaine. Au Liban, depuis la défaite de l’invasion israélienne de 2006, le Hezbollah gouverne littéralement la moitié Sud du pays - et il détient un véto sur le gouvernement libanais, ce qui revient à dire qu’il est en mesure de renverser le gouvernement libanais actuel, vassal des Américains.
A Gaza, les tentatives américaines et israéliennes de s’emparer du pouvoir et d’évincer le Hamas, via leur féal Abbas et leur marionnette Dahlan, ont été déjouées et elles ont fait long-feu, tandis que le mouvement indépendantiste nationaliste palestinien, sous la direction du Hamas, a renforcé son pouvoir.
La velléité de Washington de recouvrer son influence et d’améliorer son image de marque auprès des gouvernants conservateurs et modérés en assurant la « médiation » d’un accord de paix entre Israël et la ‘Palestine’, à Annapolis, en novembre 2007, a été totalement foutue en l’air par la répudiation effrontée et totale par Tel Aviv de toutes les conditions fondamentales mises en avant par l’administration Bush. Washington n’a strictement aucune influence sur l’expansion coloniale sioniste.
Au contraire, la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis est totalement soumise à l’Etat israélien, à travers la Configuration du Pouvoir Sioniste et son contrôle sur le Congrès, sur le choix des candidats à la présidence, sur les mass médias et sur les principaux ‘think tanks’ de la propagande.
Les sionistes ont apporté la démonstration du pouvoir qui est le leur en édictant qui pouvait, et qui ne pouvait pas, ne serait-ce que prendre la parole à la Convention Nationale Démocrate, qui a connu - cerise sur le gâteau - une censure sans aucun précédent à l’encontre du président James Carter en raison de ses critiques humanitaires contre la politique israélienne à l’encontre des Palestiniens. L’usurpation siono-israélienne de la politique moyen-orientale des Etats-Unis a entraîné la perte d’investissements, de marchés, de profits potentiels et de partenariats stratégiques pour l’ensemble de l’industrie multinationale du pétrole et du gaz. La fusion politique entre militaristes impérialistes confrontés à la Russie, au prix de relations économiques stratégiques et la poursuite par les militaristes sionistes de l’hégémonie régionale israélienne ont conduit à de multiples aventures militaires pitoyables et, ce, au prix de pertes économiques mondiales terrifiantes.
Le monde occidental
La mise en œuvre de cette stratégie militariste, ainsi que le déclin relatif de l’hégémonie économique ont conduit à des défaites stratégiques et à des échecs, dans le monde occidental. A la fin 2001, Washington défia et menaça de représailles le président vénézuélien Chavez qui refusait de se soumettre à la guerre de Bush contre « la terreur ». Chavez, à l’époque, fit savoir à un représentant particulièrement hargneux des Etats-Unis (Grossman) ceci : « Nous ne combattrons pas la terreur au moyen de la terreur ! ». Moins de six mois après, en avril 2003, Washington soutenait un coup d’Etat militaire foireux contre Chavez et, entre décembre 2002 et février 2003, un lockout économique (qui fit un flop total), à l’initiative des patrons vénézuéliens.
L’échec de la stratégie militariste américaine a dévasté l’armée et les clients de Washington au sein de la classe dirigeante vénézuélienne, et il n’a fait que radicaliser davantage le gouvernement Chavez. En conséquence, le dirigeant du Venezuela a nationalisé le pétrole et le gaz, et il a développé des relations stratégiques avec des pays en compétition, voire totalement opposés à l’Empire américain, tels que Cuba, l’Iran, la Chine et la Russie. En Amérique latine, le Venezuela a conclu des accords économiques stratégiques avec l’Argentine, la Bolivie, l’Equateur, Cuba et le Nicaragua. Tandis que Washington déversait plus de 6 milliards de dollars d’aide militaire sur la Colombie, le Venezuela signait des investissements pétroliers et gaziers, ainsi que des accords commerciaux, avec la plupart des pays d’Amérique centrale et de la Caraïbe, remettant sérieusement en question l’influence de Washington dans ces régions du monde.
Des prix des matières premières exorbitants, des marchés asiatiques en plein boom, des taxes et des subventions américaines inacceptables ont conduit à une relative indépendance des régimes « capitalistes nationaux » de l’Amérique latine, qui ont adopté le « néolibéralisme » sans les contraintes du FMI et sans les diktats de Washington. Dans ces circonstances, les Etats-Unis ont perdu le plus gros de leur influence - mis à part les menaces militaires du régime colombien - dont ils auraient besoin pour inciter l’Amérique latine à isoler Chavez - voire même Cuba. C’est la stratégie militaire adoptée par Washington qui est la cause de son propre auto-isolement.
Les conséquences, outre-mer, de stratégies militaires condamnées à l’échec
L’isolement américain en Amérique latine ne saurait être solutionné, car la poursuite de l’Empire par Washington, via son agression militaire incessante - dans le reste du monde, et en particulier en Amérique latine - ne saurait rivaliser avec les profits, la richesse, les opportunités d’investir et de faire du commerce offerts aux classes dirigeantes d’Amérique latine par les nouveaux marchés en Russie, au Moyen-Orient, en Asie, ainsi que par le Venezuela, un pays riche, grâce à son pétrole.
La stratégie impériale militariste de Washington apparaît très clairement dans sa politique duplice : mise en priorité de la dépense de 6 milliards de dollars en aide à la répression colombienne, tout en sacrifiant pour plus de 10 milliards de dollars en échanges commerciaux, en investissements et profits avec le riche pays pétrolier qu’est le Venezuela. Washington a gaspillé plus de 500 milliards de dollars dans ses agressions contre l’Afghanistan et l’Irak ; des milliards de dollars sont consacrés aux préparatifs d’agression contre l’Iran ; plus de 3 milliards de dollars sont gaspillés annuellement au profit de la soldatesque israélienne ; le tout, sans cesser un seul instant de perdre des centaines de milliards de dollars de commerce et d’investissements croisés avec l’Amérique latine.
L’aspect le plus frappant de cette contradiction historique réside dans le fait que les dépenses militaires inhérentes à un meccano d’empire centré sur l’armée ont échoué, y compris dans leur objectif minimaliste d’acquisition de contrôle politique, d’avant-postes militaires et de matières premières stratégiques du point de vue militaire. Par contraste, les concurrents des Etats-Unis sur le marché globalisé se sont assurés de l’accès à (suivi du contrôle sur) les ressources naturelles stratégiques, et ils ont signés de lucratifs accords de coopération politique sans aucun engagement militaire coûteux…
Les conséquences intérieures d’un meccano d’empire à dominante militaire
Le coût du meccano d’empire sous la houlette siono-militaire, pour l’économie américaine, a été dévastateur : la compétitivité a décliné, l’inflation ronge le niveau de vie, l’emploi en contrepartie de salaires stables et décents est en train de disparaître, le chômage et les licenciements suivent une courbe asymptotique, le système financier est totalement déconnecté de l’économie réelle, et il est sur le point de s’effondrer, les saisies de maisons atteignent des niveaux catastrophiques et les contribuables sont saignés à blanc afin de combler la dette des spéculateurs gagée sur les prêts immobiliers, qui atteint le millier de milliards de dollars. Le malaise politique est général.
Au milieu d’une crise d’ampleur mondiale, un Etat policier a étendu son emprise : des milliers de travailleurs migrants, légaux et sans papiers ont été arrêtés sur leurs chantiers et dans leurs usines et détenus dans des camps militaires, loin de leurs enfants. Des associations musulmanes et des associations arabes font l’objet de perquisitions violentes ; elles sont poursuivies en justice sur le témoignage d’informateurs stipendiés, dont des « témoins » israéliens dûment cagoulés.
La police fédérale (étatique, sur l’ensemble des Etats-Unis) et la police locale (particulière à chaque Etat) pratiquent la « détention préventive » de militants et de journalistes avant les conventions en vue du choix des candidats à l’élection présidentielle, arrêtant des protestataires avant qu’ils aient pu exercer leurs droits constitutionnels et détruisant systématiquement les caméras, les appareils photo et les films réalisés par des citoyens essayant d’enregistrer les passages à tabac. L’impérialisme militaire failli amène lentement mais sûrement un Etat policier pléthorique - soutenu tant par les démocrates que par les républicains - afin de tenter de faire face à des crises économiques qui menacent les fondations politiques et sociales d’un empire aux pieds d’argile.
Conclusion
La crise économique, à quelques semaines des élections américaines, n’a pas abouti à l’émergence d’un candidat alternatif progressiste qui fût susceptible de s’appuyer sur les masses. Les compétiteurs, tant démocrate que républicain, promettent de prolonger et d’étendre les guerres impérialistes, et ils se soumettent à un dictat militaire israélo-sioniste sans aucun précédent, en ce qui concerne le contentieux avec l’Iran.
Les crises gigognes et les multiples défaites militaires n’ont entraîné aucune reprise en considération des engagements globaux des Etats-Unis, tant économiques que militaires. En lieu et place, nous assistons à une radicalisation de la droite américaine, qui cherche à aggraver les confrontations avec la Chine, avec la Russie et avec l’Iran. Les Etats-Unis entraînent derrière eux les régimes qui leur sont liges en Europe orientale, au Caucase et dans les pays baltes afin de contrer l’accent mis par l’Europe occidentale sur la dominante « économique » de son propre meccano d’empire.
La réalité, qui est celle d’un monde économique multipolaire, toutefois, sape les efforts américains visant à imposer une confrontation militaire bipolaire. La Chine détient 1,2 milliers de milliards de dollars de la dette extérieure américaine. L’Europe occidentale, de manière générale, dépend de la Russie pour plus d’un tiers de son énergie, pour ses foyers, ses bureaux et ses usines. L’Allemagne en dépend pour près de 60 % en matière de gaz naturel. Les économies asiatiques : Japon, Inde, Chine, Vietnam et Corée du Sud dépendent, toutes, du pétrole du Moyen-Orient et en aucun cas elles ne dépendent des projets guerriers des militaristes israélo-américains au Moyen-Orient… Le Brésil, la Russie, l’Inde, la Chine, l’Afrique du Sud, le Venezuela et l’Iran sont des pays absolument essentiels pour le fonctionnement de l’économie mondiale.
Au moins autant que l’axe Etats-Unis-Israël-Royaume-Uni est tout-à-fait incapable de maintenir son empire sur les bases de stratégies militaires foireuses à l’extérieur et d’un désastre économique accompagné d’un état policier chez eux.
James Petras pour Dissident Voice
Traduction : Michel Charbonnier, ISM-France
Notes :
[1] Financial Times, 28.08.2008
[2] 28.08.2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
The Financial Crisis on Wall Street and 9-11
Maurice Greenberg The criminal head of A.I.G.
Adding Insult to Injury: Hard-pressed American Taxpayers Forced to Bailout Zionist Gangsters Behind 9-11
By Christopher Bollyn,
The current financial crisis in the United States involves some of the very same Zionist criminals and entities that I pointed out in my recent chapter, "The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Israeli Network Behind 9-11."
The collapse of their criminal scams on Wall Street could result in more information coming out about the Zionist gangsters behind 9-11. Such outrageous criminal scams cannot be kept hidden for long.
The government loan of $85 thousand millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars ($85 billion) to keep afloat Maurice Greenberg's criminal operation, American International Group (A.I.G.), brings into the spotlight one of the key individuals in the Zionist criminal network behind 9-11.
Maurice Greenberg The criminal head of A.I.G.
As I wrote in the chapter that was published in July 2008:
KROLL, GREENBERG & THE ISRAELIS
Rebuffed in 1987, the Mossad team of Malkin and Shalom didn't give up on Isser Harel's prophecy of 9-11, which meant getting the Port Authority security contract. They simply changed tack and decided to work in a less obvious manner, through dedicated and corrupt American Zionists like Jules Kroll and Maurice Greenberg. Shalom went to work for Kroll, according to the online 9/11 Encyclopedia entry for Maurice "Hank" Greenberg, the CEO of the American International Group (A.I.G.) insurance company…
In 1993, Maurice Greenberg became a partner and co-owner of Jules Kroll's company when A.I.G. bought 23 percent of Kroll. Greenberg is very close to Henry Kissinger, who became chairman of A.I.G.'s International Advisory Board in 1987. Greenberg was deeply involved in China in the 80s, where Henry Kissinger was one of his representatives, according to the 9-11 Encyclopedia. Through the China trade, Greenberg became close to Shaul Eisenberg, the leader of the Asian section of the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, and agent for the sales of sophisticated military equipment to the Chinese military, it reports. Eisenberg was also the owner of Atwell Security of Tel Aviv...Maurice Greenberg and Jules Kroll are connected to the key players of 9-11 in so many ways that their connections would fill a book. For the purpose of this chapter, however, there are a few key connections that need to be underlined:
1. Maurice Greenberg and Jules Kroll became partners in 1993, the same year Kroll Associates "was chosen over three other companies to advise the Port Authority on a redesign of its security procedures." "We have such confidence in them that I have followed every one of their recommendations," Stanley Brezenoff, the Port Authority executive director, told the New York Times in 1994.
2. Kroll controlled security at the World Trade Center complex in 2001 and was responsible for hiring John O'Neill, the former chief of counterterrorism for the FBI, who died on 9-11, reportedly his first day on the new job.
3. Greenberg's son, Jeffrey W. Greenberg, became CEO of Marsh & McLennan (MMC) in 1999 and chairman in 2000. The first plane of 9-11 flew directly into the secure computer room of Marsh (Kroll) USA, part of Greenberg's company. Mark Wood, an eyewitness, said: "It looked like a mid-sized executive jet and the way it turned suggested it was being aimed deliberately at a target."
There is much more information about Maurice Greenberg's ties to 9-11 in "The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Israeli Network Behind 9-11."
Source: Bollyn, Christopher, "The Architecture of Terror: Mapping the Israeli Network Behind 9-11," July 24, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
The Syria-Israel peace gambit
By Ramzy Baroud
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Few would argue that the indirect Israel-Syria talks through Turkish mediation, which were first announced 21 May, were a sign of political maturity and readiness for peace. In fact, while the discussions seemed concerned with the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Israel’s desire for security at its northern borders, the true objective behind the sudden engagement of Syria is largely concerned with Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas.
A precarious report published in The Jerusalem Post -- citing a news report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on 2 September -- claimed that the Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has left Syria and moved to Sudan. “Palestinian sources told the paper that Meshaal had come to an understanding with Damascus whereby the Hamas chief would agree to leave the state,” according to the report. It suggested that the indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel “may have played a part in the decision.” Hamas soon denied the report.
Whether the report is fully, partially or not at all accurate, the fact remains that Israel’s key objective in engaging Syria is to further isolate Hamas and to deny its leadership safe haven. Syria opened its doors to several Palestinian factions, who have operated politically with a degree of unison, following the September 1993 Oslo Accords. The relationship between Syria and Hamas in particular was often scrutinised as a Syrian bargaining chip in any future negotiations with Israel over the fate of the Golan. It is no secret that Israel would not transfer the Golan back to its rightful owner if Hamas and other Palestinian groups continue to use Damascus as their headquarters, a platform of political freedom and a degree of legitimacy.
But this is an issue that even Hamas itself doesn’t seem to be concerned with, at least at the moment, for it’s equally understood that Israel is not serious about its negotiations with Syria, and that the whole affair is a political manoeuvre aimed at disturbing the Syria-Iran alliance, cutting off the supposed Hizbullah weapon supply route, and further delegitimising Hamas, while propping up its Palestinian rivals. Israel is “engaging” Syria because it’s simply running out of options.
Consider A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a report prepared and signed by major Washington-based neoconservatives in 1996. It made the following recommendation to the Israeli government at the time: “Negotiations with repressive regimes like Syria’s require cautious realism. One cannot sensibly assume the other side’s good faith. It is dangerous for Israel to deal naïvely with a regime murderous of its own people, openly aggressive towards its neighbours, criminally involved with international drug traffickers and counterfeiters, and supportive of the most deadly terrorist organisations.”
The mindset behind the report had great sway over Israeli thinking, as was made clear in 2000 when then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak froze Israeli-Syrian negotiations at a point that an agreement was reportedly at hand. The thrust of Israel’s policy towards Syria was predicated on the latter’s presence in Lebanon. Even after Hizbullah forced Israel out of Lebanon in the summer of 2000, Israel never disavowed its interests in that small country, and thoroughly focused on removing Syria, a task that was made possible with backing from Washington.
“Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which Americans can sympathise, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon,” the Clean Break report recommended.
That was tried and failed miserably. Israel’s goals were trashed in its war on Lebanon in July-August 2006. The war delivered more than a military blow to Israel and a political blow to its benefactors in Washington. It empowered Hizbullah to emerge as Lebanon’s strongest party without any direct Syrian involvement.
Since then, Israel has resorted to a strategy of scare tactics against Syria and its Iranian ally. French President Nicolas Sarkozy used a recent four-way summit in Damascus to deliver an essentially Israeli message. He warned Iran of a “catastrophic” Israeli strike if it insists on pursuing its nuclear programme. Although the message was to Iran, the hope was for Syria to take notice as well.
But Sarkozy’s choice of Damascus to promote Israel’s ominous threat further highlights the relevance of Iran to his efforts, which would not have actualised without prior Israeli consent. Considering how quickly the Iraqi regime fell following the US invasion in 2003, and the succumbing of the Libyan government soon after, Syria is treading carefully, while trying to hold on to several winning cards, its strong relationship with Iran being one.
Although Syria is eager to reclaim the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan Heights, its leaders must also realise that the current Israeli leadership is in no position to negotiate withdrawal from what was illegally annexed by the Israeli Knesset in 1982. To override the strong opposition to withdrawal, the Israeli leadership must be indisputably interested in ending the occupation -- which it is not -- and strong enough to pull off such a major “concession,” which is also not the case.
Nonetheless, Syria carries on with its indirect talks with Israel, one round after the other, with much enthusiasm, coupled with talks about economic development, investment, etc.
It is clear that neither Israel nor Syria is anticipating a “breakthrough” anytime soon. For now, talking is an end in itself. Concurrently, Israel wishes to woo Syria to break with Hamas and other Palestinian groups, break with Iran and, at least, twist Hizbullah’s arm in Lebanon. Syria, on the other hand, knows well that indirect talks with Israel are an unmatched act of political validation in the West; enough to lessen US threats, win France’s friendship, and appear in a positive light internationally.
Both parties want to come across as accommodating, willing partners in peace and, at a future point, there might be a few overtures, the extent of which could be devastating to Palestinian factions in Damascus. Meshaal might not be in Sudan, but if he is, or will be soon, one cannot be entirely surprised.
Ramzy Baroud is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers and journals worldwide. His latest book isThe Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London).
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Few would argue that the indirect Israel-Syria talks through Turkish mediation, which were first announced 21 May, were a sign of political maturity and readiness for peace. In fact, while the discussions seemed concerned with the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and Israel’s desire for security at its northern borders, the true objective behind the sudden engagement of Syria is largely concerned with Iran, Hizbullah and Hamas.
A precarious report published in The Jerusalem Post -- citing a news report in the Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Rai on 2 September -- claimed that the Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal has left Syria and moved to Sudan. “Palestinian sources told the paper that Meshaal had come to an understanding with Damascus whereby the Hamas chief would agree to leave the state,” according to the report. It suggested that the indirect negotiations between Syria and Israel “may have played a part in the decision.” Hamas soon denied the report.
Whether the report is fully, partially or not at all accurate, the fact remains that Israel’s key objective in engaging Syria is to further isolate Hamas and to deny its leadership safe haven. Syria opened its doors to several Palestinian factions, who have operated politically with a degree of unison, following the September 1993 Oslo Accords. The relationship between Syria and Hamas in particular was often scrutinised as a Syrian bargaining chip in any future negotiations with Israel over the fate of the Golan. It is no secret that Israel would not transfer the Golan back to its rightful owner if Hamas and other Palestinian groups continue to use Damascus as their headquarters, a platform of political freedom and a degree of legitimacy.
But this is an issue that even Hamas itself doesn’t seem to be concerned with, at least at the moment, for it’s equally understood that Israel is not serious about its negotiations with Syria, and that the whole affair is a political manoeuvre aimed at disturbing the Syria-Iran alliance, cutting off the supposed Hizbullah weapon supply route, and further delegitimising Hamas, while propping up its Palestinian rivals. Israel is “engaging” Syria because it’s simply running out of options.
Consider A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm, a report prepared and signed by major Washington-based neoconservatives in 1996. It made the following recommendation to the Israeli government at the time: “Negotiations with repressive regimes like Syria’s require cautious realism. One cannot sensibly assume the other side’s good faith. It is dangerous for Israel to deal naïvely with a regime murderous of its own people, openly aggressive towards its neighbours, criminally involved with international drug traffickers and counterfeiters, and supportive of the most deadly terrorist organisations.”
The mindset behind the report had great sway over Israeli thinking, as was made clear in 2000 when then Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak froze Israeli-Syrian negotiations at a point that an agreement was reportedly at hand. The thrust of Israel’s policy towards Syria was predicated on the latter’s presence in Lebanon. Even after Hizbullah forced Israel out of Lebanon in the summer of 2000, Israel never disavowed its interests in that small country, and thoroughly focused on removing Syria, a task that was made possible with backing from Washington.
“Syria challenges Israel on Lebanese soil. An effective approach, and one with which Americans can sympathise, would be if Israel seized the strategic initiative along its northern borders by engaging Hizbullah, Syria and Iran, as the principal agents of aggression in Lebanon,” the Clean Break report recommended.
That was tried and failed miserably. Israel’s goals were trashed in its war on Lebanon in July-August 2006. The war delivered more than a military blow to Israel and a political blow to its benefactors in Washington. It empowered Hizbullah to emerge as Lebanon’s strongest party without any direct Syrian involvement.
Since then, Israel has resorted to a strategy of scare tactics against Syria and its Iranian ally. French President Nicolas Sarkozy used a recent four-way summit in Damascus to deliver an essentially Israeli message. He warned Iran of a “catastrophic” Israeli strike if it insists on pursuing its nuclear programme. Although the message was to Iran, the hope was for Syria to take notice as well.
But Sarkozy’s choice of Damascus to promote Israel’s ominous threat further highlights the relevance of Iran to his efforts, which would not have actualised without prior Israeli consent. Considering how quickly the Iraqi regime fell following the US invasion in 2003, and the succumbing of the Libyan government soon after, Syria is treading carefully, while trying to hold on to several winning cards, its strong relationship with Iran being one.
Although Syria is eager to reclaim the Israeli occupied Syrian Golan Heights, its leaders must also realise that the current Israeli leadership is in no position to negotiate withdrawal from what was illegally annexed by the Israeli Knesset in 1982. To override the strong opposition to withdrawal, the Israeli leadership must be indisputably interested in ending the occupation -- which it is not -- and strong enough to pull off such a major “concession,” which is also not the case.
Nonetheless, Syria carries on with its indirect talks with Israel, one round after the other, with much enthusiasm, coupled with talks about economic development, investment, etc.
It is clear that neither Israel nor Syria is anticipating a “breakthrough” anytime soon. For now, talking is an end in itself. Concurrently, Israel wishes to woo Syria to break with Hamas and other Palestinian groups, break with Iran and, at least, twist Hizbullah’s arm in Lebanon. Syria, on the other hand, knows well that indirect talks with Israel are an unmatched act of political validation in the West; enough to lessen US threats, win France’s friendship, and appear in a positive light internationally.
Both parties want to come across as accommodating, willing partners in peace and, at a future point, there might be a few overtures, the extent of which could be devastating to Palestinian factions in Damascus. Meshaal might not be in Sudan, but if he is, or will be soon, one cannot be entirely surprised.
Ramzy Baroud is an author and editor of PalestineChronicle.com. His work has been published in many newspapers and journals worldwide. His latest book isThe Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People’s Struggle (Pluto Press, London).
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
“At All Cost” (The USA/NATO plan is the division and creation of two new states, Warziristan and Ballochistan)
The USA/NATO plan is the division and creation of two new states (Warziristan and Ballochistan)
This map figure the future of a Pakistan without Warziristan and Ballochistan
The U.S. is officially attacking Pakistani citizen within Pakistan’s borders by military means:
President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.
This is an open declaration of war against Pakistan.
The commander of Pakistan’s armed forces understood that and promises to fight back:
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan,” [Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani] said.
That grave sentence is the last one in the AP report.
Have the people of the United States understood what Bush is doing here?
He just started a war with a nuclear armed nation of some 170 million people.
Have the NATO/ISAF troops in Afghanistan and their civilian overlords understood what Bush is doing here?
U.S. troops outside of NATO/ISAF command attacked the country through which some 80% of all logistic that sustain those troops are shipped. There is no real alternative transport for these materials and last week the route was already shut down for day. That was clearly a warning.
The international media seem to be quiet about the issue.
There should be outrage. Attacks like the ground operation last week have zero military relevance for the outcome in Afghanistan. Kill one ’senior militant’ and ten others will step up to take his job. But such operations endanger all ‘western’ troops and civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There are clear alternatives to this. The U.S. commander in Afghanistan requested 10,000 more troops to fight the Taliban within Afghanistan. Those could seal the border to Pakistan. But Bush does not want to pull troops out of Iraq and will send only some 3,500 to Afghanistan and that only next spring. Instead he widens the war to include another country.
Some 90% of the Pakistani public are already against any cooperation with the United States. Mr. Ten Percent Zardari lied and bribed himself into the Pakistani presidency with the help of the U.S. ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalizad. The U.S. seems to think Zardari is an asset. In reality his approval rating in Pakistan is 14%. He is irrelevant. The Pakistani army will do what it thinks is best for the country, no matter what Zardari says.
General Kayani just announced layed down a marker: “The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost.”
It is time for people to understand what “all cost” includes. People may be more familiar with the term “all options are on the table.” That is, what I think, Kayani meant.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/09/at-all-cost.html
This map figure the future of a Pakistan without Warziristan and Ballochistan
The U.S. is officially attacking Pakistani citizen within Pakistan’s borders by military means:
President Bush secretly approved orders in July that for the first time allow American Special Operations forces to carry out ground assaults inside Pakistan without the prior approval of the Pakistani government, according to senior American officials.
This is an open declaration of war against Pakistan.
The commander of Pakistan’s armed forces understood that and promises to fight back:
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost and no external force is allowed to conduct operations inside Pakistan,” [Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani] said.
That grave sentence is the last one in the AP report.
Have the people of the United States understood what Bush is doing here?
He just started a war with a nuclear armed nation of some 170 million people.
Have the NATO/ISAF troops in Afghanistan and their civilian overlords understood what Bush is doing here?
U.S. troops outside of NATO/ISAF command attacked the country through which some 80% of all logistic that sustain those troops are shipped. There is no real alternative transport for these materials and last week the route was already shut down for day. That was clearly a warning.
The international media seem to be quiet about the issue.
There should be outrage. Attacks like the ground operation last week have zero military relevance for the outcome in Afghanistan. Kill one ’senior militant’ and ten others will step up to take his job. But such operations endanger all ‘western’ troops and civilians in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
There are clear alternatives to this. The U.S. commander in Afghanistan requested 10,000 more troops to fight the Taliban within Afghanistan. Those could seal the border to Pakistan. But Bush does not want to pull troops out of Iraq and will send only some 3,500 to Afghanistan and that only next spring. Instead he widens the war to include another country.
Some 90% of the Pakistani public are already against any cooperation with the United States. Mr. Ten Percent Zardari lied and bribed himself into the Pakistani presidency with the help of the U.S. ambassador to the UN Zalmay Khalizad. The U.S. seems to think Zardari is an asset. In reality his approval rating in Pakistan is 14%. He is irrelevant. The Pakistani army will do what it thinks is best for the country, no matter what Zardari says.
General Kayani just announced layed down a marker: “The sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country will be defended at all cost.”
It is time for people to understand what “all cost” includes. People may be more familiar with the term “all options are on the table.” That is, what I think, Kayani meant.
http://www.moonofalabama.org/2008/09/at-all-cost.html
Monday, September 15, 2008
America 's Financial Apocalypse Heralds Decade Long Depression
But Greenspan and Bernanke have not been alone in what will surely be remembered as America 's Financial Apocalypse - the eventful period ushering in a decade-long depression, as predicted in my 2006 book by the same title. Certainly, President Bush did not create these trends. But his financial irresponsibility has accelerated their magnitude. In less than eight years, he has managed to increase the national debt by 90%. As the data shows, not only has he led the worst recovery since the post-WWII era, he has also positioned his successor with budget shortfalls for many years to come due to Part D Medicare, the Iraq War, and his tax cuts for the wealthy.
Combined with the staggering deficits for Medicare and Social Security , America 's economy will be in the gutter for many years to come even after the banking and real estate troubles cool down. No one else is talking about these issues because they're wrapped up in the daily drama. But save this article and others I've written because I've been mentioning the longer-term problems ever since writing my book. In a few years, more people will begin to address these issues once they are transformed into daily drama.
President Bush's attempts at a recovery have been so horrendous they've actually led to the current recession, which will turn out to be the worst in decades. I would venture to guess he is desperately pleading with officials to come up with even more gimmicks to hide the full realities of the economy so the worst will be reported only after he leaves office. But I will guarantee you if Washington and the Fed continue this reckless game of applying band aids instead of letting things play out, we will see a much bigger crisis down the road, similar to what happened after Greenspan tried to mitigate the dotcom collapse. You can bet this is going to happen because Washington does not understand the meaning of preemption.
Altogether, we have had eight years of no gains in real median wages, flat stock market returns, and minimal net new jobs. Despite what you have heard, after adjusting for debt spending, population growth and realistic adjustments to the GDP deflator, there have only been 3 or 4 quarters of GDP growth since 2005. If you adjust for military, government and minimum wage positions – i.e. jobs funded by tax payers and jobs that don't pay anything - there have been absolutely no net new jobs. Bush's largest gains have been with inflation, oil and food prices, debt, trade deficits, bankruptcies, foreclosures, and healthcare costs. If an assembly of the world's leading economic strategists were to design the most destructive economic disaster possible, they could not match the results of Bush's tenure. Even the most loyal Bush supporters will admit he has been an absolute disaster – that is if they're being honest. America is now more dependent on foreign nations than ever – not only for oil, but also credit and manufactured goods.
America 's “Resilient” Economy
Many of the pundits flood the propaganda networks with repeated denials of the problems, boasting how resilient the U.S. economy is. You know who they are. I'm not quite sure what they've been smoking. But it appears to be some sort of hallucinogen because they seem to expect Superman to bend the economy back into shape. Ladies and Gentlemen, in case mommy never told you, there is no Santa Claus and there is no Superman. And if you think Bernanke's printing presses have an endless supply of ink and paper, just wait until the real crisis appears. So you had better get ready because it's coming. It is virtually inescapable. And it's going to cause devastation around the globe. Of course I'm taking about the likely implosion of the CDS market.
Let's take a look at America 's “resilient economy.” Let's see…the entire financial system is in the process of blowing up. Already there have been over $500 billion in bank losses, with over $1 trillion more to come. Over one dozen banks have failed, with hundreds on deck. A handful of large hedge funds have blown up, with hundreds more on the way. Already, over $1 trillion has been transferred from the Fed to the banking cartel. But I estimate another $1.5 trillion will be needed to maintain liquidity as banks de-leverage over the next few years. Unemployment is now over 6% and inflation is over 5%, even with Washington 's manipulation of the data. Virtually every metric in the housing market is at multi-decade lows, except for foreclosures which are hitting new highs.
Taxpayers are now on the hook for billions of dollars of potentially worthless debt held by Fannie and Freddie. It's now official. America 's free market economy is really a socialist system for corporations. One could argue this to be a form of Fascism. My best estimate for losses due to the Fannie and Freddie taxpayer bailout are between $200 to $500 billion. The worst case scenario would be $800 billion. If this economy is resilient, I can't wait to see how it magically bounces back. When Superman fails to show up, Washington might consider giving David Copperfield a call. But this would be one illusion he won't be able to pull off. Get the popcorn ready.
The Economy Under a Microscope
Let's take a closer look at the economy. America imports oil, credit, and manufactured goods, while exporting jobs, junk bonds and inflation (via the dollar-oil link – see http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article5414.htmlfor an explanation). That doesn't sound like the type of trade policy that would support claims of a superpower, unless you're only counting the number of nukes. Surely Washington is beginning to wonder how much longer Asia and Europe will continue fueling America 's credit bubble. They've already faced massive losses from sub-prime securities with much more carnage to come.
China holds about $1.4 trillion in U.S. Treasuries, but only due to their its surplus with the U.S. It can't dump Treasuries yet because the Yuan remains greatly undervalued. China pegged it to the dollar back in 2001, knowing the dollar would plummet so they'd lure dollars from U.S. consumers looking for bargains. What most people don't realize is that China 's support for U.S. Treasuries helps finance Bush's irresponsible spending sprees. By financing up to 90% of each annual deficit, China helps keep interest rates low in the U.S., which facilitates credit expansion for consumers to buy more imports - mainly from China (due to the low cost items created by China's currency peg).
Hidden Imports
Keep in mind when you buy that Dell computer or Fossil watch, you're really buying imports. Dell and Fossil actually resemble distributors more than manufacturers because virtually all of their products originate overseas. The same is true for most U.S. companies that sell branded goods. In many cases, the same is also true for the service segment of the economy. Many American IT and software development firms outsource projects to India , Canada , and other nations so they can escape the costly retirement and healthcare benefits Americans expect.
By no means does it end there. For several years, U.S. banks, tax providers, telecommunications and several other industries have outsourced to Asia - so much for the “strength” of America 's service economy. If this service economy is so “strong” someone explain to me how Asia has been able to increase its living standard by leaps and bounds in such a short period. Before you answer, keep in mind that income and wealth are finite over short periods since they are limited by human and natural resources. Make sense? If not, let me know and I'll do a write-up explaining it next time.
Corporate America 's new trend is to outsource even lower on the food chain to nations like Argentina , as a way to find more desperate workers to enslave at a lower cost. While these jobs seem like a Godsend, foreign workers will soon see the longer-term effects of corporate globalization. Already, many U.S. corporations have finessed themselves into the hip-pocket of foreign politicians and other officials to discourage unions, ensuring wages remain low and benefits never materialize.
?? (See Ya' Later) Yankee
As the economy continues its downward spiral, it remains to be seen how much longer China keeps its currency undervalued once it realizes U.S. consumers have no more money to buy their goods. Once the verdict is out, China could begin to focus on internal growth as the recession spreads globally. The global effects are already surfacing, with inflation soaring, real estate plummeting and foreign banks scrambling as they wait for the next Bear Stearns. The Chinese government could encourage its consumers to spend domestically. This would prove as a great strategy to buoy its economy since Chinese have amble savings (they save 25% of household income). Thus, once China is convinced U.S. consumers are finished, there is a good chance it will begin a gradual sell-off of U.S. Treasury securities. And this is going to be a huge problem.
The Middle East also has a huge trade surplus with the U.S. But unlike China , it has no incentive to hold U.S. Treasuries. Instead, Middle Eastern investors use their petrodollars to buy hard assets – commercial real estate like the Chrysler building, businesses and other critical U.S. assets. Yet, they still can't seem to find enough things to buy, so many Middle Eastern cities are being gutted and turned into modern architectural wonders. In the recent past when U.S. banks have begged for mercy, Dubai , Kuwait and Saudi Arabia have handed over billions from their sovereign “oil extortion” funds. But they've learned their lesson, so I wouldn't expect anymore bailout money anytime soon. Never fear! The Fed and the U.S. Treasury are here!
The Federal Reserve Disaster
The Fed needs to let a real recession run its course to clear out the trash so the economy can begin a real recovery and expansion. They've been playing this boom-bust game for several years now. And all we have seen are illusions of growth followed by the realities of mismanagement and excess consumption. Running the printing presses in overdrive won't get America out of this mess. It hasn't helped in the past and it's not going to now. In fact, using the money supply to hold off a recession and prevent bank failures ensures there will an even more devastating crisis down the road . Greenspan tried the same move in response to the Internet meltdown. And as we all know, this led to the current real estate bubble and banking crisis.
But even shutting down the Fed's printing presses is insufficient for a lasting and real recovery. Washington absolutely must restructure free trade so that the playing field is level for all participant nations. This implies that America structure a universal healthcare system. And America 's badly broken free market system must be repaired, because as it stands today, it represents socialism for the wealthy.
As a result of the combined actions of Washington 's Three Stooges, the harsh effects of this corrective period will send America into its worst recession in several decades. Thereafter, a silent depression will persist for many years as Americans struggle to keep pace with inflation, job quality continues to decline and opportunities for the working class vanish into thin air. While U.S. living standards have been in decline for over two decades, the silent depression will accelerate and make these declines more permanent.
It's highly unlikely the rest of the world will be able to escape the pain caused by Washington 's Three Stooges because the dollar-oil link is used to hold every nation financial hostage. China will feel the effects as will India ; and yes, even Brazil . Unlike America 's fate, these developing nations will mount a full recovery. And the lessons learned could strengthen the pressure to dethrone the dollar as the universal currency. But don't expect Washington to take this lying down. In fact, it might eventually lead to a major war.
Perhaps the only region that will have some insulation from the meltdown will be select oil-rich nations in the Middle East . But they aren't likely to walk out of this completely unscathed due to contained oil demand. But let's not forget that OPEC has control over pricing. The payback period is going to affect virtually everyone. And for those who think they will avert the payback – namely those most responsible for this mess - like Washington 's Three Stooges and bank CEOs - their payback will last eternity because their role in America 's Financial Apocalypse will be recorded in history books.
By Mike Stathis
Hamas : La résistance a détruit la théorie de "la grande Israël"
Gaza – CPI
Le mouvement du Hamas a affirmé que les déclarations du premier ministre sioniste Ehud Olmert à propos de la fin de l'idée de "la grande Israël" représentent une reconnaissance que les bases de l'occupation sont détériorées et affirment l'échec total de l'entité sioniste. Pendant ce temps, le peuple palestinien s'attache davantage à ses territoires et ses droits.
Le porte-parole du mouvement du Hamas Dr. Sami Abou Zouhri a dit, aujourd'hui lundi 15/9, dans une déclaration spéciale au Centre Palestinien d'Information, que la résistance palestinienne a détruit la théorie de "la grande Israël" et a obligé les leaders de l'occupation à renoncer à ce rêve sioniste après qu'ils sont devenus incapables de défendre les colonies sionistes.
Il a précisé que les déclarations d'Olmert disant que le temps ne sert pas l'occupation représentent une reconnaissance de la part des dirigeants sionistes que l'occupation n'est pas un destin.
Olmert avait affirmé, hier samedi 14/9, lors d'une réunion hebdomadaire du gouvernement sioniste, la fin de la théorie de "la grande Israël", qui est devenue une illusion, et que le temps ne sert pas l'Etat de l'occupation.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Les Néo-conservateurs et les Sionistes veulent utiliser le Soufisme pour détruire l'Islam
Ô Communauté de l'Islam, prends garde : http://www.nixoncenter.org/
[...]En Octobre 24, 2003, le Programme de la sécurité internationale du Nixon Center a accueilli une conférence à Washington pour étudier comment le soufisme peut jouer un rôle dans la politique étrangère américaine. Le but de cette réunion était de mettre en place des décideurs américains et la communauté politique dans ce courant plutôt négligé de l'islam, souvent dénommé "la culture islamique.", le soufisme est pratiqué par des millions de personnes dans le monde, y compris aux États-Unis.[...]
Dans cette réunion sur le soufisme il y avait:
-Richard Perle
-Paul Wolfowitz
-Dick Cheney
-Daniel Pearl
-Jebb Bush
-Madeleine Albright
-Zalmay Khalilzad
-Elliott Abrams
-Donald Rumsfeld
-Bernard Lewis (celui qui a inventé le terme choc des civilisations)
etc... (j'ai citer que les noms les plus connus)
Le Centre Nixon est un groupe de néo-conservateurs qui a pour membre tous les grands ennemis de l'Islam, et ce n'est pas pour rien qu'ils ont choisi le soufisme pour le détruire de l'intérieur.
Dans le lien PDF, les néo-conservateurs ont défini plusieurs étapes pour propager le soufisme dans le monde musulman :
- se concentrer d'abord dans les zones ou le soufisme est bien implanté: l'Eurasie - choisir une voie du soufisme qui peut influencer une majorité de musulmans : les néo-conservateur ont choisi la Naqshbandia.
- choisir un chef spirituel : les neo-conservateurs ont choisi Sheikh Hisham Kabbani.
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7.../320/news2.png
Sheikh Kabbani et george bush
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7...320/hisham.jpg
Sheikh Kabbani et dickcheney
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7...kabbani234.jpg
- inciter les musulmans à combattre les "Wahabites": les néo-conservateurs ont décidé de soutenir financièrement des programmes d'éducation spécialisé dans la lutte contre le "wahabisme" dans tous le monde musulman.
- créer une organisation des musulmans aux Etats-unis dont le but serait de combattre les "Wahabites" et les membres du Hiz ut tahrir :
Les neo-conservateurs ont créé le SMC (Sufi Muslim Council):
(je mets directement le lien qui met en garde contre les wahabites):
http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/
http://www.sufimuslimcouncil.org/extremism.php
Comme vous pouvez le constater celle qui écrit sur le site SMC est la même qui écrit au Centre Nixon : Zeyno Baran (soufi néo-conservateur).
- organiser des rencontres entre les néo-conservateurs et le chef spirituel de l'organisation (sheikh Hisham Kabbani) :
Bernard Lewis à rencontrer sheikh Hisham Kabbani et ils ont parlé de Ben Laden, de l'extrémisme, etc.., à la fin de la réunion Sheikh Kabbani a dit à Bernard Lewis, qu'il va promouvoir l'islam modérer contre l'islam radical. Nixoncenter p.3 http://www.nixoncenter.org/publicati...phs/Sufism.pdf
Bernard Lewis a était conseiller de Benjamin Netanyaou, conseiller des services secret britannique et aujourd'hui il est professeur des études sur le Moyen-Orient à l'Université de Princeton.
source: http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lewis
Sheikh Kabbani est le leader des Naqshbandi et le site Aslama en a fait une référence : http://aslama.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15236
Qui est Zeyno Baran? Photo de Zeyno Baran : http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7940/3582/320/2608_048Zeyno_Baran.jpg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeyno_Baran
Zeyno Baran (né le 31 janvier, 1972) est une universitaire turc américaine en vue sur des questions allant des États-Unis à la Turquie, les relations idéologiques islamistes à la sécurité énergétique en Europe et en Asie. Elle est le Directeur du Centre de politique et eurasienne Senior Fellow à l'Hudson Institute, un groupe de réflexion situé à Washington DC.
De Janvier 2003 jusqu'à l'adhésion à l'Hudson Institute en avril 2006, elle a travaillé comme directeur de la sécurité internationale et de l'énergie pour les programmes internationaux.
Barana aussi travaillé comme Directrice du Caucase au Centre d'études stratégiques et internationales de 1999 à Décembre 2002. Elle est mariée à un non musulman : Matthew Bryza, qui est actuellement aux États-Unis sous-secrétaire adjoint d'Etat pour l'Europe et l'Eurasie.
Institut Hudson
Domaine d'activité : suprématie américaine, atlantisme, anti-islamisme
Création : 1961
Personnes-clés : Herbert London, président Siège : Washington, DC
Chercheurs : Kenneth Weinstein (Moyen-Orient), Hillel Fradkin.
Site Web : http://www.hudson.org
Cette femme a rencontré plusieurs fois sheikh Kabbani pour parler de la lutte contre le "Wahabisme".
source http://www.islamicsupremecouncil.org...xon102403.html
Dans la 1ère photo on voit de gauche à droite:
-Bernard Lewis
-Zeyno Baran
-sheikh Kabbani
Extrait de la conférence:
Le point culminant de cet évènement était un groupe principal avec Cheikh Kabbani et le professeur Bernard Lewis de l'Université de Princeton.
Cheikh Kabbani a déclaré à l'Assemblée que l'Amérique devrait aider les Soufis si elle veut améliorer les relations avec le monde musulman.
Cependant l'ouverture d'esprit qu'ils soient, Cheikh Kabbani a souligné que les Soufis sont fermement ancrés dans l'islam.
«Il n'y avait pas un savant - jusqu'à une date récente - qui interdisait les "tasawwuf (soufi)"", a-t-il dit. Ce qui est faux (la preuve ici : http://manhajulhaqq.com/spip.php?article27).
Le professeur Lewis a également parlé sur le caractère inclusif du soufisme, qui transcende la simple tolérance. Selon lui, les Soufis peuvent encore jouer un grand rôle dans la mise en place plus positive et constructive des relations entre l'Occident et le monde musulman et l'élimination de la mauvaise communication entre les cultures qui a caractérisé le passé de plusieurs siècles.
Lorsqu'on leur a demandé que le gouvernement américain devrait en parler dans le monde musulman, le professeur Lewis a répondu simplement: «Je dirais qu'ils parlent à Cheikh Kabbani."
Bernard Lewis a était conseiller de Benjamin Netanyaou, conseiller des services secret britannique et aujourd'hui il est professeur des études sur le Moyen-Orient à l'Université de Princeton.
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Lewis
M. Mirahmadi dit que, contrairement aux islamistes radicaux, les soufis ne sont pas en collision avec l'Occident.
"Il devient évident alors, pour nos perspectives à long terme la paix et la sécurité, de favoriser et d'encourager un monde musulman que la doctrine peuvent co-exister dans une société pluraliste», a-t-elle dit. «Je ne suis pas la pour demander à la politique étrangère américaine d'inventer un islam qui existe de cette manière, il existe de cette manière depuis 1400 ans."
Alex Alexiev, Senior Fellow au Centre de la politique de sécurité, a déclaré que le conflit entre le soufisme et le wahhabisme est "une lutte pour l'âme de l'islam." Il a dit que, depuis les années 1970, le gouvernement de l'Arabie saoudite a été une dépense moyenne de 2,5 milliards de dollars par an, afin de répandre la doctrine wahhabite dans le monde entier.
Dr Charles Fairbanks, directeur du Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, John Hopkins University, a déclaré que la propagation du wahhabisme a grandement contribué à la montée de l'islamisme militant à travers le monde.
"Ce ne sont pas tous les wahhabites qui sont des terroristes", a t-il dit, "mais tous les terroristes sont, au moins, influencés par le wahhabisme. L' administration Bush est-elle donc "wahhabite" ??
Zeyno baran a déclaré :
"Il devient évident alors, pour nos perspectives à long terme pour la paix et la sécurité, de favoriser et d'encourager un monde musulman ou cette doctrine peut co-exister dans une société pluraliste», at-elle dit. «Je ne suis pas pour demander à la politique étrangère américaine d'inventer un Islam qui existe de cette manière, il existe de cette manière depuis 1400 ans."
Fin de citation.
FOX NEWS à fait un reportage spécial pour propager l'idéologie corrompue naqashbandi [1] de "sheikh" Kabbani où il appelle a combattre les "wahhabits" : http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=E2pty6W0tLE
"Ni les Juifs, ni les Chrétiens ne seront jamais satisfaits de toi, jusqu'à ce que tu suives leur religion. - Dis: "Certes, c'est la direction d'Allah qui est la vraie direction". Mais si tu suis leurs passions après ce que tu as reçu de science, tu n'auras contre Allah ni protecteur ni secoureur." [2 : 120]
L'égarement des Soufis : « le cancer de la communauté » (Sheikh Al-‘Uthaymin)
En espérant vous avoir ouvert les yeux, salutations fraternelles.
Abd Allah.
[1] Qui sont les Naqshbandis ? : http://sd-1.archive-host.com/membres/up/426241470/sectes/aslama.pdf
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Sarkosy, Belkheir et Tewfik ont organisé le montage de l'arrestation du présumé coupable dans l'affaire Mecili
Apparement la personne presentée au juge et passée à la télé hier sur France 3 dans le 12/13 n'est pas le commanditaire de l'assassinat de Mecili, il n'aurait jamais travaillé pour l'armée ou le DRS. Cet homme s'appelle bien comme il le dit mais il n'est pas le coupable, c'est une source que le Colonel Samraoui connait tres bien qui le confirme.
Cet homme a bien été à l'ambassade d'Allemagne entre 1997 et 2004 et cette personne pour le compte du gouvernment algerien a surement cherché à nuir au colonel Samraoui...
Cette arrestation est le fruit de l'Elysée et elle lie le general Larbi Belkheir et plusieurs ministres francais aux plaintes deposées contre devant des juridictions européenes et internationales.
Des plaintes pour enlevements et sequestrations, tortures, crimes de guerre, crimes contre l'humanité, génocide dans certains cas visant plusieurs des generaux algeriens, dont Mohamed Mediene, dit Tewfik, ou général de la DST pour les intimes, actuel patron du DRS, des ministres francais actuels et anciens (Sarkosy est visé alors qu'il était ministre de l'interieur, il a organise l'enlevement de plusieurs algeriens, marocains, leurs sequestrations, leurs tortures avec des regimes locaux), les responsables des services de renseignements, de l'ambassade France à Alger et Rabat.
Une plainte d'Amnestie internationale aurait meme été deposée contre le colonel Samraoui, ceci est à confirmer car je n'ai pu le vérifier, une plainte pour enlevements, sequestrations et tortures.
Ceux qui cherchent à discréditer, diviser et détruire l'opposition algerienne, ainsi que ceux qui ont deposé les plaintes ne s'y prendrait pas autrement... L'Elysée a organisé ce montage, Sarkosy, et Larbi Belkheir sont en premiere ligne dans cette affaire.
wa Allah alam
Abu Suleyman
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Warning : Mossad to kill Robert Gates and blame Pakistanis militant
We inform our readers that several credible sources agreed to send a 'global warning'. Robert Gates, US 'defense' secretary is the target of a special israeli operation, currently in final preparation. Gates will be killed in his convoy during one of his secret meeting trip in the Middle East/South East Asia, scheduled for the next few days. Pakistanis militant will be blamed. This will give a 'reasonable excuse' for 'israel' to send american troops in Pakistan to 'neutralise' secret nuclear sites before any further attacks planned in the area. 'Israel' fears the use of nuclears head by a very small group of pakistanis officer in case of direct war against Iran.
Abu-Suleyman
Mossad and 9-11: The Israeli Network behind 9-11 (part 2)
THE "FIXED FRAME" OF 9-11
If one accepts Werthebach's expert judgment that "the magnitude of planning" behind 9-11 required the "fixed frame" of a state intelligence organization, then there should be evidence of such an organization connecting the key players of the operational network behind the crime. If we can only discern some elements or identify some of the key people in this network, we should be able to discover other key people involved in the organization through their mutual connections.
In order to carry out the sophisticated terror attacks of 9-11, the architects would have had to create an organizational structure in the United States over a period of years, or even decades. This structure is needed to connect the key individuals and crucial points of the crime, including those involved in the on-going non-investigation and cover-up. All the bases have to be covered.
The organizational structure is required to provide secure channels or "pipelines" for the criminal organization, the conduits through which the terror operation is set up and carried out. A secure conduit could be a company, a group of people, or even a single individual. The most important thing is that it be wholeheartedly devoted to the organization. When the 9-11 structure was complete and the wiring in place, the switch was thrown and the long-planned terror atrocity became real.
There is simply no evidence whatsoever that any such "Al Qaida" or Islamic terrorist structure ever existed in the United States or that any Muslim or Arab organization was interested in or capable of carrying out such a sophisticated attack. There is, on the other hand, a great deal of evidence that an Israeli military structure, which employed Arab disguises when necessary, is behind 9-11. This network connects the highest officers and veterans of Israeli military intelligence with all the key players, companies, and funding entities involved in setting up the 9-11 attacks.
There is evidence of an Israeli military intelligence matrix connecting every key player and entity behind 9-11. At the most crucial position in U.S. law enforcement, for example, where executive decisions were made concerning the federal non-investigation, sat Michael Chertoff, an Israeli whose mother was one of the first agents of Israeli intelligence. Having the devoted Zionist Michael Chertoff in the key position as Asst. Attorney General controlling the criminal division of the Dept. of Justice gave the Israelis the operational security to carry out this massive crime without fear of exposure or prosecution. Chertoff also played a central role in the prosecution of the 1993 false-flag terror bombing at the World Trade Center.
"The supreme curse, is to do wrong and not pay the penalty for it."
Michael Chertoff, U.S. Chief of Homeland Security,
is an Israeli through his mother. As Asst. Attorney General
running the Criminal Division at the Dept. of Justice,
Chertoff supervised the "non-investigation" of 9-11.
Likewise, two dedicated Zionists-cum-federal judges named Alvin K. Hellerstein and Michael B. Mukasey have overseen virtually all the litigation from the massive death and destruction of 9-11 as well as the 1993 false-flag incident at the WTC. Small wonder there has yet to be a single trial for any of the 96 families who chose to seek justice through the courts rather than accept the government pay-out for the loss of their loved ones. Less than two months before the 7th anniversary of 9-11, fewer than 7 of the original 96 cases remain to be settled and still no trial is planned for any of the victims of 9-11. This can hardly be called justice for the relatives. As they say, "Justice delayed is justice denied."
The appalling absence of any significant investigation or discovery, the egregious acts of confiscation and criminal destruction of evidence, the escape or removal of all Israeli suspects, and the use of unwarranted secrecy measures to block discovery in the federal investigation and litigation processes of the worst terror attack in U.S. history, all indicate the presence of an Israeli-based terror structure being protected from exposure.
It stands to reason that the terror network being protected by high-level Zionist agents is itself a Zionist structure. If it were truly an Arabic, Islamic, or even American criminal network, it would have been exposed long ago. The fact that the terror network behind 9-11 has been protected from the beginning by Zionist agents and the controlled media strongly suggests it is something they are dedicated and devoted to.
There were certainly early and clear indications of Israeli involvement, particularly in the form of the five dancing Israelis and the instant messages conveyed, presumably in Hebrew, on the Israeli-owned Odigo text messaging system which warned recipients of an imminent terror attack at the World Trade Center.
MICHAEL GOFF, THE PTECH "CUT-OUT" & GUARDIUM
The Ptech story is a crucial piece of 9/11 because the software was used to simultaneously coordinate the FAA with NORAD and the Secret Service.
- Jamey Hecht, "Ptech, 9/11, and USA-Saudi Terror," FTW Publications
Ptech was with MITRE Corporation in the basement of the FAA for two years prior to 9/11. Their specific job is to look at interoperability issues the FAA had with NORAD and the Air Force in the case of an emergency. If anyone was in a position to know that the FAA -- that there was a window of opportunity or to insert software or to change anything -- it would have been Ptech along with MITRE.
- Indira Singh, "Risk Architect" at 9/11 Citizens’ Commission, Sept. 9, 2004
Indira Singh and Jamey Hecht pushed the false story
about Ptech being tied to Arab "terrorists."
My discovery in 2005 that the Ptech software company from Quincy, Mass., was actually a disguised Israeli intelligence operation is key to understanding the role of Israeli military intelligence in the crimes of 9-11. This is a discovery that has helped reveal other key people in the Israeli network behind the crime.
Michael Goff
- the Ptech "cut-out"
Michael Goff was the key person at Ptech when it was founded in 1994. Goff, a young Zionist lawyer from Worchester, Massachusetts, subsequently worked for Guardium, an Israeli software company tied to military intelligence. This is the crucial connection that has helped expose the larger Israeli military intelligence network working behind the 9-11 scene.
Through Goff's connection to Guardium we can see how a nexus of senior officers of Israeli military intelligence agencies links all the key elements of 9-11. This connection also explains how dodgy Israeli enterprise spy software wound up on critical U.S. government and military computer networks.
Ptech is the allegedly Arab-owned and Saudi-financed company whose enterprise software found its way onto the most critical computer networks of the U.S. government and military. By 2002, Ptech reportedly provided software to more than 18 federal agencies, including the FBI, U.S. Treasury, Customs Service, Secret Service, Department of Energy, Army, Navy, Air Force, Federal Aviation Administration, the U.S. Postal Service – and even NATO.
Investigators from the U.S. Customs Service searched Ptech's office on December 6, 2002. Federal authorities were reportedly concerned about Ptech's ties to a Saudi named Yassin Al-Qadi (a.k.a. Al-Kadi). Qadi's name had been added to the UN blacklist on October 19, 2001. Daniel Glaser, a Jewish deputy assistant secretary for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes at the U.S. Treasury, described Al-Qadi in Congressional testimony in 2004 as a "key terrorist financier and facilitator."
In December 2007, after an investigation that lasted six years and two months, Yassin Abdullah Al-Qadi was exonerated of all charges by judicial authorities in Switzerland. Al-Qadi's funds had been unfairly frozen for six years based merely on the reckless accusations of Daniel Glaser, an irresponsible Zionist at the U.S. Treasury who went on to negotiate the freezing and thawing of North Korean funds.
Daniel Glaser, U.S. Deputy Asst. Secretary of Treasury, in Beijing, Dec. 2006;
In 2001, Glaser supervised the Dept. of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes.
How a Lebanese Muslim immigrant funded by a Saudi suspected of being "a sponsor of terrorism" ever sold enterprise software to the entire U.S. government is never addressed by those, like Indira Singh, who promoted the post 9-11 myth that Ptech was a central part of the Arab nexus of terror. Singh is a bit of a mystery. Why did she promote the Arab terrorism story without any evidence other than baseless accusations provided by Jewish insiders?
The discovery that Goff was actually the key person at Ptech; that he was Ptech's original marketing director; and that he was the person responsible for "procuring" software for Ptech should have demolished the Arab myth. My revelation that Goff was working for Guardium, a software company run by Israeli military intelligence officers, was ignored by the "whistle blowers" who had pushed the Arab myth as well as by supposedly non-partisan investigators of 9-11.
The Ptech-Guardium connection through Michael Goff, however, is a key link to the terror structure behind 9-11. Ptech enterprise software, which has spy, surveillance, and intervention capabilities, according to "experts" like Singh, was running on nearly all of U.S. government computer networks at the time of 9-11. Goff, who had procured all software for the "Arab-owned" Ptech and who had been responsible for marketing Ptech's enterprise software, went on to work for Guardium, a company that is a branch of the research and development department of the Israeli Air Force. What's the connection?
WHO IS GUARDIUM?
Guardium is a spin-off of Log-On Software, an Israeli military intelligence company based in Ramat Gan, Israel. Log-On Software was founded by Major Gil Migdan and Joseph Segev, the former head programmer and telecommunications officer for the Israeli Navy. The vice president of the company is Danny Zeitouny, the head of logistics programming for the Israeli military, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
One of the directors of Guardium is Gill Zaphrir (a.k.a. Zafrir), an Israeli colonel who "headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force."
Col. Gill Zafrir of Guardium
headed R&D for Israel Air Force
In its "Executive Profile" about Col. Zaphrir, Business Week says:
Mr. Gill Zaphrir is a Partner at Veritas Venture Partners. He joined Veritas in 1999 and has been actively managing the funds of Veritas. Mr. Zaphrir has research and development and management experience in Israel's air force and aerospace industry. Prior to joining Veritas in 1999, he headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force. In 1987, Mr. Zaphrir served as System Engineer on the first Israeli satellite project, under the auspices of IAI-MBT.
Mr. Zaphrir is a Director of Bamboo Mediacasting Inc., and Guardium Inc. He was a Director of eShip-4u Inc. He was born and raised in Israel, served as a military navigator in the Israel Air Force and is a Colonel (reserve). Mr. Zaphrir holds a B.Sc. in Aeronautical Engineering from the Technion in Haifa and an M.B.A. from Bar-Ilan Business School in Israel.
Another founder and director of Guardium is Amit Yoran, the Israeli who went to West Point and became the manager of computer network security for the Pentagon and Secretary of Defense. Yoran went on to serve as the "czar" of cyber security for the U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security.
Amit Yoran, a high-level Israeli "hacker" tied to military intelligence,
supervised computer security for the Pentagon, Air Force, and U.S. government.
Business Week says this about "Dr. Yoran":
Dr. [Amit] Yoran is a Co-Founder of Guardium, Inc. and also served as the Chief Executive Officer and President. He was the President and Chief Executive Officer at Riptech Inc, which Dr. Yoran co-founded in 1998.
He was appointed by George W. Bush as the administration's Cyber Chief, responsible for coordinating the nation's activities in cyber security. Prior to this, Dr. Yoran served as a Vice President for worldwide-managed security services at Symantec Corp. and was primarily responsible for managing security infrastructure in 40 countries.
Before working in the private sector, he served as a Network Security Manager at the Department of Defense and [was] responsible for maintaining operations of the Pentagon's network. Dr. Yoran also served as an officer in the United States Air Force [as the Director of Vulnerability Programs for Dept. of Defense's Computer Emergency Response Team]. He designed security architecture for the Pentagon and Office of the Secretary of Defense networks' backbones.
Dr. Yoran served as a Director at Guardium, Inc. and Director of the Vulnerability Assessment and Assistance Program for the U.S. Department of Defense Computer Emergency Response Team. As a Director, he worked with national and international law enforcement and intelligence organizations to prevent and respond to security breaches of national infrastructure networks.
He serves as a Member of the Adjunct Faculty at George Washington University. Dr. Yoran has conducted a Doctoral research in the area of Intrusion Detection Technologies.
Michael Goff's working relationship with Amit Yoran and the Israeli intelligence operation known as Guardium, Inc. is an excellent example of an Israeli military intelligence "channel" in the United States. I don't have specific information about exactly when Goff's relationship with Israeli military intelligence began, but I would assume it began sometime prior to 1994 when he suddenly left his law practice and began working "for the Arabs" at Ptech.
Goff's father and grandfather were both highest-level Freemasons in the International (Jewish) Order of the B'nai B'rith (a.k.a. Benai Berith), an exclusive Jewish-Zionist (i.e. closed to non-Jews) order of Freemasons founded in New York City in 1843. The B'nai B'rith is a secretive, but extremely powerful and influential order of Freemasonry. It is, for example, the parent organization of the Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith (ADL), which has a great deal of influence with legislators and law enforcement agencies across America. It is also the parent of Hillel, an organization for Jewish students found on virtually every college campus in the United States. The New York Times can be also be called a B'nai B'rith newspaper due to its ownership by the Sulzberger family, one of the leading families of B'nai B'rith Lodge No. 1 in New York City.
Goff's relationship with the Israelis who created Guardium appears to have been the channel through which Israeli spy software was provided to Ptech. The resulting Israeli-Ptech enterprise spy software was then installed onto the most critical computer networks of the U.S. government in the years prior to 9-11.
"The boy's job in this operation is to play cut-out," the Mossadnik in The Little Drummer Girl says. "That's all he does. He breaks the circuit." In real life, Goff played the "cut-out" at Ptech; he was the connection between the Israeli military programmers and the crucial computer networks of the U.S. military.
At the time that Goff worked for Ptech, Yoran was Network Security Manager at the Dept. of Defense designing computer security for the Pentagon. In this position, Yoran was ideally situated to arrange the installment of Ptech software onto the critical computer systems of the U.S. military. The Israeli nexus between Michael Goff, Ptech, Guardium, and Amit Yoran provides a logical explanation for how Israeli-cum-Ptech enterprise "spy" software wound up on the critical computer networks of the U.S. government and military.
Guardium is closely connected with other companies of the Israeli military intelligence network in the United States. Some of the key Israeli-run companies linked to Guardium are Amdocs, ViryaNet, Nice Systems, and CreoScitex. Like Guardium, these companies are all run by senior officers of Israeli military intelligence.
Amdocs and Nice Systems are especially noteworthy because these two companies were involved in the espionage network of computer programmers and demolition experts from the Israeli military who posed as art students as they tried to infiltrate offices of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) in 2000 and 2001, according to a leaked DEA document from the summer of 2001 concerning this spying activity.
The "most activity" of the Israeli operation aimed at infiltrating offices of the DEA was "reported in the state of Florida," according to the report. "The Hollywood, Florida area seems to be a central point for these individuals with several having addresses in this area," the DEA report said. Hollywood is also the area which connected 15 of the 19 Arab "hijackers" of 9-11. If the "art student" operation is connected to 9-11, as it seems to be, then Amdocs and Nice Systems are also involved.
"A majority of those [Israeli "art students"] questioned has stated they served in military intelligence, electronic signal intercept, or explosive ordinance units. Some have been linked to high-ranking officials in the Israeli military. One was the son of a two-star general, one served as the bodyguard to the head of the Israeli Army, one served in a Patriot missile unit. That these people are now travelling in the U.S. selling art seems not to fit their background," the U.S. DEA investigators concluded.
One of the Israeli agents was 27-year-old Lt. Peer Segalovitz, a platoon leader with Israeli special forces 605 battalion in the Golan Heights. Segalovitz and the 80-man platoon he commanded "specialized in demolition."
"Segalovitz acknowledged he could blow up buildings, bridges, cars and anything else that he needed too," according to the report. If the Israeli "art student" intelligence operation is connected to 9-11, then the prevalence of military computer programmers and demolition experts among the agents would make sense given the evidence that the terror attacks of 9-11 required a great deal of expertise with computer networks and explosives.
NICE SYSTEMS
Nice Systems, Inc., the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of an Israeli company with the same name, was headed by Brig. General Shlomo Shamir from April 2001 when he became President and Chief Executive Officer. This is the precisely the time when Israeli employees of Nice Systems and Amdocs were caught trying to infiltrate Drug Enforcement Agency and other U.S. government buildings posing as art students. Gen. Shamir certainly must have been aware that his employees had been sent to the United States where they were arrested for illegal spying activity prior to 9-11.
Brig. Gen. Shlomo Shamir
Brig. Gen. Shamir "built and led the planning division in the IDF [Israeli military] headquarters and served as Israel’s military attaché to Germany" until 1994, when he began working at Scitex America Corp., which he headed from 1997 and which later became CreoScitex America, Inc.
Avinoam Naor Aharonovich, one of the founders of Amdocs, was President and CEO of Amdocs Management Ltd., the company's management group from 1995 to 2002. As Chief Executive Officer of Amdocs Management Limited, Naor had overall coordination responsibility for the operations and activities of the company's operating subsidiaries.
Avinoam Naor
Aharonovich of Amdocs
A number of senior corporate officers of Amdocs, all Israelis, moved between Nice Systems, ViryaNet Ltd., and Guardium. Sometimes a person would go to a company for a while and then return to the previous company. In some cases, such as with Gill Zaphrir, a person would be involved in an Israeli "venture capital" fund supporting a company while serving as a director of the company he is funding.
Elad Yoran
Elad Yoran [a.k.a. Naftali Yoran], Amit's older brother, held similar dual positions at Broadview International and Riptech, his brother's company that specialized in hacking into corporate computer networks while selling them Riptech's "security" software.
AMIT YORAN'S "ETHICAL HACKERS"
"Mr. [Amit] Yoran is chief executive of Riptech, a U.S. company that employs 'ethical hackers' to test vulnerability of networks, including those of utility companies," the Irish Times reported on October 5, 2001. "He [Yoran] says his teams have had success in disrupting utilities' power networks, in Europe particularly," according to the article, which was aptly titled, "Welcome to the Art of Electronic Warfare."
The Yorans' company hacked into the computer networks of dozens of energy companies, the Los Angeles Times reported on August 20, 2001:
Riptech Inc., a security company in Alexandria, Va., has tested security for dozens of energy-industry clients. In every case, the firm penetrated Internet-connected corporate networks and often hopped from those networks into supposedly sealed grid-control systems, according to Riptech's president, Amit Yoran.
In February 2001, Amit Yoran, then chief executive of Riptech, told the Associated Press that hackers often break into a system through a computer that runs a Web site. "Once you break in (to the Web server), there are fewer protections between it and other parts of the network," Yoran said.
Elad Yoran, Tim Belcher, and Amit Yoran,
the senior hackers of Riptech
Riptech "was founded by Elad and Amit Yoran, two Israeli West Point graduates who claim years of security experience, and Tim Belcher, a Desert Storm veteran who serves as the company's chief technology officer," the Washington Times reported on December 11, 2000. "Amit Yoran reportedly helped design the Pentagon's computer security architecture," the Times reported.
"The threat changes every day. There has always been and always will be a criminal element out there. [The crooks] are not going away," said Elad Yoran, the company's chief financial officer. He should know. He was Riptech's chief marketing officer and vice president for business development at the time of 9-11.
"Riptech's specialty is in security management and monitoring of corporate computer networks," the Washington Times reported on October 23, 2000, when the Yoran brothers' private company of "ethical hackers" announced an infusion of $23 million in venture capital.
Oddly, the Washington Times reported that Elad Yoran had "joined" Riptech in August 2001, when he had already been the company's vice president for two years: "Elad Yoran joined Riptech as executive vice president for corporate development and chief marketing officer. Mr. Yoran was a vice president with Broadview International," the Times reported on August 6, 2001.
But, nearly two years earlier, on October 25, 1999, the Washington Times reported: "Elad Yoran has joined RipTech Inc., an information security application service provider in Alexandria, as executive vice president. Before joining RipTech, Mr. Yoran was a senior associate with Broadview, an investment bank that specializes in mergers and acquisitions for information technology and media companies."
In both cases it was reported that Yoran had been a vice president with Broadview, one of the mysterious funding entities of Riptech, prior to joining Riptech. Elad Yoran was clearly performing two functions for Riptech: funding the company through his position as "vice president at Broadview International," an unknown source of funds that poured millions of dollars into Riptech, and as "executive vice president" of Riptech, the privately-held recipient company he co-founded with his brother in 1998.
It is through such secretive "venture capital" funding entities like Broadview and Veritas Venture Partners that the hand of Israeli military intelligence can be clearly seen running the computer network "security" companies they have spawned, like Guardium.
Before becoming a director of Guardium, for example, Col. Gill Zafrir was "actively managing the funds of Veritas," and funding Guardium. Prior to joining Veritas in 1999, Col. Zaphrir "headed the research and development department of the Israel Air Force."
SECURITY GROWTH PARTNERS
Elad Yoran is also the CEO and founder of a similar funding company called Security Growth Partners (SGP). The SGP website says this about the company's mission:
Security Growth Partners’ (SGP) mission is to support companies that provide security solutions for the security market. SGP serves a large and diverse industry including, among others, information technology (IT) security, Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP), homeland security and their related markets.
SGP is more than a fund or typical venture capital organization. We identify desirable opportunities and become extensively involved in the strategy and operations of each company with which we work.
Rather than simply invest, we capitalize on both our extensive expertise and experience in the security sector and our strong network of contacts to help management grow their businesses.
The founder of SGP, Elad Yoran, "advises leading companies in the security market and helps guide emerging companies with innovative technology to rapid growth. Mr. Yoran also advises government and infrastructure organizations on security and business risk matters."
The list of Elad Yoran's advisors and partners at SGP is very interesting. It includes his brother Amit Yoran, of course, and previously included another Israeli named Ilan Juran, which is another spelling of the same Israeli name.
Ilan Juran works at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn, New York. Juran is director of the US-Israel Civil Infrastructure Security Program, an initiative of the Urban Utility Center, which he is "executive director" of. Juran's program is "designed to foster collaboration, as well as knowledge and technology sharing, between the U.S. and Israel governments and critical infrastructure organizations."
Tim Belcher, a co-founder of Riptech, the company of "ethical hackers," is another advisor at SGP. As Belcher's biographical sketch says:
Mr. Belcher has also conducted security assessments of some of the nation’s most critical infrastructure components, including the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Control Network. He has also worked with government organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Reconnaissance Office, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and Space and Naval Warfare Command.
THE KROLL CONNECTION
It is interesting to note that Jeremy M. Kroll, the Managing Director of Marsh Kroll, is also on the "advisory board" of Elad Yoran's Security Growth Partners. This is a crucial connection in the Zionist network behind 9-11; this is where we hit the mainline.
Jeremy Kroll of Marsh Kroll
Kroll, the son of Jules B. Kroll, has been an executive at Marsh Kroll, a division of Marsh & McLennan Co. (MMC), since 1996. Jeremy Kroll's connection with Elad and Amit Yoran through SGP reveals a key link between the American Zionist network and Israeli military intelligence.
MMC is headed by Jeffrey Greenberg, the son of Maurice Raymond Greenberg (a.k.a. "Hank"). Maurice Greenberg, the CEO of A.I.G., has been a business partner with Jules B. Kroll since 1993 when he reportedly bought 23 percent of Kroll Inc. for $15 million. In 2004 MMC acquired the rest of Kroll for the hugely inflated price of $1.9 billion. Jules Kroll reportedly retired in July 2008.
Jeffrey Greenberg is CEO of MMC.
The first plane flew directly into his company's computer room.
What a coincidence.
KROLL SECURITY AT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
Kroll Associates was responsible for "revamping security at the World Trade Center after the 1993 terrorist bombing," Douglas Frantz of the New York Times reported in 1994. This is a crucial point because those who controlled security at the WTC are prime suspects in the demolition of the twin towers. It was directly into the computer room of Marsh (Kroll) USA in the North Tower that the first plane struck, or was precision-guided, on 9-11. The light orange flame and whitish smoke that exploded out of burning computer room of Marsh USA are indicative of a Thermite reaction. Burning jet fuel produces darker orange flames and blackish smoke.
John O'Neill, the former chief of counterterrorism with the FBI, who had investigated Al Qaida, was the head of security for the World Trade Center complex, and was reportedly killed on his first day of work on 9-11. O'Neill had been appointed to this position by the managing director of the Kroll security company, Jerome M. Hauer. Kroll evidently continued to manage security for the WTC complex from 1993 until 9-11.
Jerome Hauer was the director of Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management.
Hauer was the person who chose to locate the emergency bunker in WTC 7.
Prior to joining Kroll, Hauer, a Zionist Jew, had been the director of Mayor Giuliani's Office of Emergency Management (OEM), where he had been the driving force to have the OEM command bunker built in Larry Silverstein's 47-story WTC 7, the tower which fell into its footprint at 5:21 p.m. on 9-11. Testimony from Larry Silverstein and physical evidence strongly suggest that WTC 7 was demolished with explosives and Thermite.
HISTORY OF ISRAELI "SECURITY" AT PORT AUTHORITY
There is a very significant, but little-known history of senior Israeli intelligence officers seeking to gain control of security of New York airports, ports, bridges, tunnels, and the World Trade Center in the 1980s. Being in charge of security at the twin towers was obviously crucial to the 9-11 operation. The explosive charges and Thermite that evidently demolished the three towers could not have possibly been placed in the buildings without the perpetrators having complete control of security.
Getting control of security at the WTC was something senior officers of Israeli military intelligence had actively sought since at least 1987. This was clearly part of the Israeli master plan for 9-11, a plan first articulated in 1979 by Isser Harel, the former head of Israeli intelligence (Director Shin Bet, 1948–1952; Director Mossad, 1947-1963). Harel, formerly the director of Haganah intelligence in the 1940s, is seen as the founder of Israeli intelligence. The Haganah and Irgun were the largest Zionist militia/terrorist organizations in Palestine prior to the creation of Israel in 1948. Both organizations were involved in the terror bombing of the King David Hotel and other acts of terrorism.
Harel was evidently involved in the long-term planning of 9-11. More than 20 years earlier he had told Michael D. Evans, an American Zionist missionary, that terrorism would "come to America." Arab terrorists would strike the tallest building in New York City, "a symbol of your fertility," Harel said.
Michael D. Evans is a hard-line Zionist Jew who poses as a Christian. Here Evans embraces Menachem Begin, the former terrorist head of the Irgun who ordered the bombing of the King David Hotel. Isser Harel told Evans of the plan to bomb the World Trade Center in 1979, about the time of this photo.
Evans, a Jewish Zionist who has long had close ties to Israeli officials, wrote about Harel's prediction of 9-11 in several newspaper articles and talked about it in an interview that followed the publication of his 2004 book entitled The American Prophecies, Terrorism and the Mid-East Conflict Reveal a Nation's Destiny.
Note: Harel's 9-11 prediction is discussed in greater detail in the previous chapter entitled "America the Target."
Harel had dinner with Evans on September 23, 1979, according to Evans, and told him that America's alliance with Saudi Arabia "was dangerous and would develop a tolerance for terror among Americans." Harel went on to say that "Islamic fundamentalists would ultimately strike America."
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
MI6 Operative Bindar failed coup d'etat in Saudi Arabia
Saudi coup against King Abdullah fails
A Saudi security source has revealed that a military coup to overthrow army officers loyal to King Abdullah was successfully foiled. The anonymous source told Aafaq that military officers and members of the Saudi Arabian National Guard (SANG) managed to prevent the coup. The source said National Guard officer Major Ahmed Maiad Zahrani, backed by a Saudi prince, had recruited 150 of his fellow officers to carry out the takeover. The officers were taken in for questioning and later charged with conspiracy, it added. The motive behind the planned coup was, apparently, to overthrow the Saudi National Arabian Guard leader, who is loyal to King Abdullah and prevent the selection of another member of the family as crown prince. Saudi Arabia's current crown prince, the 80-year-old Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz, is seriously sick. King Abdullah has appointed his eldest son Mutaib as deputy commander of the National Guard. In Saudi Arabia, the Bay'ah Council chooses the crown prince from three candidates named by the king. The council was formed after divisions emerged among the descendents of the former King Abdulaziz.
America's Plan to Break Up Pakistan
Le Pakistan est-il la nouvelle cible des US pour une fragmentation et une « balkanisation » ? Une analyse géostratégique, politique et économique détaillée de la situation de ce pays par le Professeur Michel Chossudovsky répond par l'affirmative.
La Destabilisation Du Pakistan
Note éditoriale
Le Pakistan est situé dans la même zone d'interférence américaine que l'Afghanistan. Quelque soit le nouveau Président US élu avant la fin de l'année, les Etats Unis ont décidé depuis un certain temps déjà de déstabiliser le Pakistan et de le morceler pour assurer leur domination dans cette région. Le Pakistan possède à l'Ouest une frontière commune avec l'Iran et au Nord avec l'Afghanistan où devrait s'intensifier les opérations militaires des US/OTAN dans les mois à venir. Le Professeur Michel Chossudovsky, Directeur du Centre de Recherche sur la Mondialisation au Canada, Global Research www.globalresearch.ca, a publié le 30 décembre 2007 sous l'intitulé « The Destabilisation of Pakistan » une analyse géostratégique politique et économique détaillée, solidement argumentée, des interférences ouvertes et clandestines US au Pakistan et les objectifs visés. Ci dessous la traduction de l'article.
« La Déstabilisation du Pakistan. » Professeur Michel Chossudovsky – 30 décembre 2007 Global Research
L'assassinat de Benazir Bhutto a créé des conditions qui contribuent à la déstabilisation en cours et à la fragmentation du Pakistan en tant que nation.
Le processus de « changement de régime » sponsorisé par les US, qui normalement consiste en la formation d'un gouvernement de proxy renouvelé avec de nouveaux dirigeants, a été brisé. Le Général Pervez Musharaf, discrédité aux yeux de l'opinion publique pakistanaise, ne peut rester dans le fauteuil du pouvoir politique. Mais, en même temps, les élections truquées soutenues par la « communauté internationale » prévue pour janvier 2008, même si elles ont lieu, ne seront pas acceptées comme légitimes créant par conséquent une impasse politique.
Il existe des indications que l'assassinat de Benazir Bhutto a été anticipé par les responsables US :
« On sait depuis des mois que l'Administration Bush-Cheney et ses alliés ont manœuvré pour renforcer leur contrôle politique du Pakistan pavant le chemin à l'expansion et l'enracinement de la « guerre contre le terrorisme » à travers la région.
Différents plans de déstabilisation US, connus depuis des mois par des responsables et analystes ont proposé le renversement du pouvoir militaire au Pakistan…
L'assassinat de Bhutto semble avoir été anticipé. On a rapporté l'existence de « bavardages » parmi les responsables US sur les possibles assassinats soit de Pervez Musharraf soit de Benazir Bhutto bien avant que les tentatives actuelles n'aient lieu. ( Larry Chin Global Research 29/12/07).
Impasse Politique
Le « changement de régime » visant à assurer la continuité sous contrôle militaire n'est plus à la pointe de la politique étrangère US. Le régime de Pervez Musharraf n'est plus prédominant. La voie choisie par Washington pour sa politique étrangère c'est de promouvoir activement la fragmentation politique et la balkanisation du Pakistan en tant que nation.
On anticipe déjà une nouvelle direction politique mais en tout état de cause, elle aura une forme différente des régimes antérieurement sponsorisés par les US. On peut s'attendre à ce que Washington appuie une direction politique obéissante, n'ayant aucun engagement à défendre les intérêts nationaux, une direction qui servira les intérêts impériaux des US, tout en contribuant simultanément sous le prétexte de « décentralisation » à l'affaiblissement du gouvernement central et à la fracture de la structure fédérale fragile du Pakistan.
L'impasse politique est voulue. Elle fait partie d'un agenda de politique étrangère US qui a évolué et qui favorise la perturbation et la confusion dans les structures de l'état pakistanais. La gouvernance indirecte par l'armée pakistanaise et l'appareil des renseignements va être remplacée par des formes plus directes d'interférence US dont une présence accrue de l'armée US à l'intérieur du Pakistan.
Cette présence militaire accrue est également dictée par la situation géopolitique Moyen Orient-Asie Centrale et les plans en cours de Washington d'étendre la guerre du Moyen Orient à une zone bien plus large.
Les US ont plusieurs bases militaires au Pakistan. Ils contrôlent l'espace aérien du Pakistan. Selon un récent rapport :
« On s'attend à ce que des Forces Spéciales US étendent largement leur présence au Pakistan, dans le cadre d'un effort pour former et soutenir des forces de contre insurrection et des unités de contre terrorisme clandestines. (William Arkin, Washington Post Décembre 2007).
La Balkanisation du Pakistan
En 2005 déjà, un rapport du National Intelligence Council US et de la CIA prévoyait un « sort semblable à celui de la Yougoslavie pour le Pakistan dans une décennie avec le pays en proie à la guerre civile, au bain de sang, et aux rivalités entre provinces, comme on l'a vu récemment au Balochistan » (Energy Compass 2 mars 2005). Selon le NIC-CIA, le Pakistan est destiné à devenir un « état en faillite » aux alentours de 2015, car « il sera en proie à la guerre civile, une totale Talibanisation et une lutte pour le contrôle de ses armes nucléaires ». Citations de l'ancien haut commissaire pour le Pakistan en Grande Bretagne, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, Times de l'Inde, 13 février 2005 :
« Des réformes démocratiques naissantes ne produiront que peu de changement face à l'opposition d'une élite politique figée et des parties islamistes radicaux. Dans cette atmosphère de continuel tumulte interne, le contrôle du gouvernement central sera probablement réduit à la région centrale de Punjabi et au carrefour économique de Karachi » a dit l'ancien diplomate citant le rapport de la NIC-CIA.
Exprimant son inquiétude, Hasan s'est interrogé : « nos dirigeants militaires travaillent-ils sur le même agenda, ou sur quelque chose conçu pour eux dans les différents rapports d'estimation établis depuis des années par le National Intelligence Council conjointement en collaboration avec la CIA » (Idem)
La continuité, se caractérisant par le rôle dominant de l'armée pakistanaise et des renseignements a été abandonnée au profit d'un démembrement politique et d'une balkanisation.
Selon le scénario du NIC-CIA, que Washington à l'intention de mener à bien : « le Pakistan ne se remettra pas facilement de décennies de mauvaise gestion politique et économique, absence de loi, corruption et friction ethnique. « (Idem)
La voie choisie par les US consiste à fomenter des divisions sociales, ethniques et entre factions, et une fragmentation politique, dont le démembrement territorial du Pakistan. La nature de cette action est également dictée par des plans de guerre US en relation à la fois avec l'Afghanistan et l'Iran.
L'agenda US pour le Pakistan est identique à celui appliqué partout dans une région plus vaste comprenant le Moyen Orient et l'Asie Centrale. La stratégie US soutenue par des opérations clandestines des services de renseignement, consiste à provoquer des luttes ethniques et religieuses, se rendre complice et financer des mouvements séparatistes tout en affaiblissant également les institutions du gouvernement central.
L'objectif plus large c'est de provoquer une fracture de l'Etat Nation et de redessiner les frontières de l'Irak, l'Iran, la Syrie, l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan.
Les réserves de pétrole et de gaz du Pakistan
Les vastes réserves de pétrole et de gaz du Pakistan, sont principalement situées dans la province du Balochistan, de même que ses corridors d'acheminement par pipelines sont considérés comme stratégiques par l'alliance Anglo-Américaine, nécessitant en même temps la militarisation du territoire pakistanais.
Le Balochistan représente plus de 40% du territoire du Pakistan, possède d'importantes réserves de pétrole et de gaz naturel de même que des ressources minières étendues.
Il est prévu que le corridor du pipeline Iran-Inde transite par le Balochistan. Le Balochistan possède également un port de mer en eau profonde principalement financé par la Chine et situé à Gwadar, sur la mer d'Arabie, pas très loin du Détroit d'Hormuz où 30% de l'approvisionnement mondial quotidien en pétrole se fait par bateau ou pipeline. (Asia News.it, 29 décembre 2007).
Le Pakistan a environ 25.1 trillions de m3 de réserve en gaz dont 19 trillions sont situés au Balochistan. Parmi les entreprises pétrolières et gazières étrangères présentes au Balochistan on trouve BP, l'ENI d'Italie, OMV d'Autriche et BHP d'Australie. C'est important de noter que les entreprises de pétrole et de gaz publiques du Pakistan dont PPL qui détient la part la plus importante dans les champs pétroliers de Sui au Balochistan sont en voie de privatisation sous la supervision du FMI et de la Banque Mondiale.
Selon le Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ) le Pakistan a des réserves sûres de pétrole de 300 millions de barils, la plupart se situant au Balochistan. D'autres estimations placent les réserves de pétrole à 6 trillions de barils à la fois on shore et off shore (Environnement News Service, 27 octobre 2006).
Soutien clandestin aux séparatistes du Balochistan
Les réserves énergétiques stratégiques du Balochistan ont un lien avec l'agenda séparatiste. Suivant un procédé habituel, il existe des indications comme quoi le soulèvement Baloch est soutenu et bénéficie de la complicité de la Grande Bretagne et des US.
Le mouvement de résistance nationale Baloch remonte à fin 1940, quand le Balochistan a été envahi par le Pakistan. Dans l'actuel contexte géopolitique, l e mouvement séparatiste est entrain d'être détourné par des puissances étrangères.
Les renseignements britanniques fourniraient un soutien clandestin aux séparatistes du Balochistan (qui depuis le début subissent la répression de l'armée pakistanaise). En juin 2006, le Comité de Défense du Sénat pakistanais a accusé les serves secrets britanniques d'être « complices de l'insurrection dans la province bordant l'Iran » (Balochistan)…(Press Trust of India 9 août 2006. 10 députés britanniques ont été mis en cause dans une session à huit clos du Comité de Défense du Sénat portant sur des allégations de soutien des services secrets britanniques aux séparatistes Baloch (Idem). Sont de même pertinents des informations faisant état de soutien de la CIA et du Mossad aux rebelles Baloch en Iran et dans le Sud de l'Afghanistan.
Il semblerait que la Grande Bretagne et les US soutiennent les deux parties en conflit. Les US fournissent des avions de combat F-15 américains à l'armée pakistanaise, qui sont utilisés pour bombarder des villages au Balochistan. Pendant ce temps, le présumé soutien clandestin britannique au mouvement séparatiste (selon le Comité du Sénat pakistanais) contribue à affaiblir le gouvernement central.
Le but déclaré du contre terrorisme US c'est de fournir un soutien clandestin de même qu'un entraînement à des « armées de libération » avec finalement comme but de déstabiliser des gouvernements souverains. Au Kosovo, la formation de l'Armée de Libération du Kosovo ( KLA) dans les années 90 avait été confiée à une entreprise privée de mercenaires, MPRI (Military Professionnal Resources Inc) sous contrat avec le Pentagone.
Le BLA ressemble à s'y méprendre au KLA du Kosovo qui a été financé par le commerce de la drogue et soutenu par la CIA et la BND allemande (Bundes Nachrichten Dienst – services secrets allemands). Le BLA est apparu peu après le coup militaire de 1999. Il n'a pas de lien tangible avec le mouvement de résistance Baloch, qui s'est développé depuis la fin des années 40. Une aura de mystère entoure la direction du BLA.
Washington est favorable à la création d'un « Grand Balochistan » qui comprendrait les zones Baloch du Pakistan, celles de l'Iran et éventuellement le pointe sud de l'Afghanistan (Voir la carte ci-dessous) conduisant ainsi à un processus de démembrement politique à la fois de l'Iran et du Pakistan.
« Les US utilise le nationalisme Balochi pour monter une insurrection à l'intérieur de la province Sistan-Balochistan en Iran. La « guerre contre le terrorisme » en Afghanistan fournit une toile de fond utile pour l'ascendant pris par la militance Balochi ( Voir Global Research du 6 mars 2007).
Ce qu'à écrit Le lieutenant colonel Ralph Peters chercheur militaire dans l'édition de juin 2006 de « The Armed Forces Journal » suggère, dans des termes sans équivoque, que le Pakistan devrait être fragmenté, ce qui mènerait à la formation d'un pays séparé «le Grand Balochistan» ou « Balochistan libre « (voir carte ci-dessous). Celui-ci incorporerait les provinces pakistanaises et iraniennes Baloch au sein d'une seule entité politique.
A son tour, la province frontalière Nord Ouest du Pakistan (NWFP) devrait être incorporée dans l'Afghanistan « à cause des affinités linguistique et ethnique» . Cette fragmentation proposée, qui reflète largement la politique étrangère des US, réduirait le territoire pakistanais d'approximativement 50% (Voir carte). Le Pakistan perdrait aussi une grande partie de sa côte sur la mer d'Arabie.
Bien que la carte ne reflète pas officiellement la doctrine du Pentagone, elle a été utilisée lors d'un programme de formation au collège de défense de l'OTAN pour les hauts gradés militaires. Cette carte, de même que des cartes identiques, ont probablement été utilisées par l'Académie Nationale de Guerre de même que dans les cercles de planification militaires (Voir Malidi D. Nazemroaya Global Research 18 novembre 2006).
« Le dernier poste occupé par le lieutenant colonel Peters avant qu'il ne parte à la retraite se trouvait être au sein du bureau du sous chef du personnel des services secrets, dans le département de la défense US, et il a été l'un des auteurs du Pentagone les plus prolifiques ayant écrit de nombreux essais sur la stratégie pour des journaux militaires et sur la politique étrangère US » (Idem).
C'est important de noter que les tendances cessessionnistes ne se limitent pas au Balochistan. Il y a des groupes séparatistes dans la province de Sindh, s'appuyant principalement sur le régime militaire dominé par Punjabi du général Pervez Musharraf (Pour plus de détails voir Selig Harrisson, Le Monde Diplomatique octobre 2006).
« Remède Economique Fort » : Affaiblir le Gouvernement Central du Pakistan
Le Pakistan a une structure fédérale qui repose sur des transferts aux provinces fédérées. Dans le cadre d'une structure fiscale fédérale, le gouvernement central transfère des ressources financières aux provinces, dans le but de soutenir leurs programmes. Quand ces transferts sont gelés, comme cela est arrivé en Yougoslavie en janvier 1990, sur ordre du FMI, la structure fiscale fédérale s'effondre :
« les revenus de l'état qui auraient du aller aux Républiques dans le cadre de transferts de paiement (de la Fédération de Yougoslavie) ont été utilisés au lieu de cela pour payer la dette de Belgrade… Les Républiques ont été pour une grande part livrées à elles –mêmes financièrement…Les coupes dans le budget nécessitant une redirection des revenus fédéraux pour servir la dette, ont mené à la suspension du transfert par Belgrade des paiements aux gouvernements des Républiques et Régions Autonomes.
Les réformateurs avaient conçu l'effondrement final de la structure fiscale fédérale de la Yougoslavie et blessé mortellement les institutions politiques fédérales, le tout dans un seul plongeon. En coupant les artères financières entre Belgrade et les Républiques, les réformes ont alimenté des tendances cessessionnistes se nourrissant de facteurs économiques en même temps que de divisions ethniques, assurant en fait une cessession de facto des Républiques. (Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Second Edition, Global Research, Montreal, 2003, Chapter 17.)
Ce n'est pas du tout par hasard si le rapport du National Intelligence Council – CIA de 2005 avait prédit un « sort semblable à celui de la Yougoslavie » pour le Pakistan mettant en avant les conséquences d'une « mauvaise gestion économique » comme l'une des causes de la fragmentation et de la balkanisation.
« Mauvaise gestion économique » est un terme utilisé par des institutions financières internationales basées à Washington pour décrire le chaos résultant du fait de ne pas suivre totalement le programme d'ajustement structurel du FMI. En fait, c'est réellement « la mauvaise gestion économique » et le chaos qui sont les conséquences des directives du FMI-Banque Mondiale, qui invariablement déclenchent une hyperinflation et précipitent des pays endettés dans l'extrême pauvreté.
Le Pakistan s'est vu prescrit le même « remède économique « mortel du FMI comme la Yougoslavie : en 1999, juste après le coup d'état militaire qui a porté au sommet du gouvernement militaire le général Pervez Musharraf, un paquet économique du FMI, incluant une dévaluation de la monnaie et des mesures drastiques d'austérité, a été imposé au Pakistan. La dette extérieure du Pakistan est de l'ordre de 40 billions de dollars US. La « réduction de la dette » du FMI dans le cadre du paquet avait comme condition la vente au capital étranger des entreprises d'état les plus profitables (dont les installations de pétrole et de gaz au Balochistan) à des prix cassés.
Le ministre des finances de Musharraf a été choisi par Wall Street, une pratique qui n'est pas inhabituelle. Les dirigeants militaires ont nommé à la demande de Wall Street, un vice président de Citigroup, Shaukat Aziz, qui à l'époque était à la tête d'une banque privée mondiale appartenant à Citigroup ((See WSWS.org, 30 October 1999). Citigroup fait partie des plus grandes institutions bancaires commerciales étrangères présentes au Pakistan.
Il existe des similitudes évidentes dans la nature des opérations clandestines des services secrets US pratiquées pays après pays dans différentes parties de ce que l'on appelle « le Monde en Développement ». Ces opérations clandestines, dont l'organisation de coups militaires, sont souvent synchronisées avec des réformes macro- économiques imposées par le FMI-Banque Mondiale. C'est dans ce cadre là que la structure fiscale fédérale de la Yougoslavie s'est effondrée en 1990 conduisant à une pauvreté de masse et des divisions ethniques et sociales accrues. Les US et l'OTAN ont soutenu une « guerre civile» déclenchée mi 91 qui consistait à couvrir des groupes islamiques de même qu'à faire passer un soutien clandestin aux groupes armés paramilitaires séparatistes en Bosnie, au Kosovo et en Macédoine.
Un scénario de « guerre civile » identique a été envisagé pour le Pakistan par le National Intelligence Council et la CIA : du point de vue des services secrets US, qui a une longue expérience dans le soutien aux « armées de libération » séparatistes, la « Grande Albanie » est au Kosovo ce qu'est le «Grand Balochistan» à la province du Balochistan au Sud Est du Pakistan. De même, le KLA est le modèle choisi par Washington pour être dupliqué dans la province du Balochistan.
L'Assassinat de Benazir Bhutto
Benazir Bhutto a été assassinée à Rawalpindi, une ville qui n'est pas ordinaire. Rawalpindi est une ville militaire qui héberge les quartiers généraux des forces Armées pakistanaises et le renseignement militaire (ISI). Ironiquement, Bhutto a été assassinée dans une zone urbaine étroitement contrôlée et gardée par la police militaire qui infiltre tout le temps les manifestations politiques. Son assassinat n'est par un évènement du au hasard.
Sans preuve, citant des sources gouvernementales pakistanaises, les médias occidentaux en chœur ont souligné le rôle d'Al Qaeda, tout en se concentrant également sur une possible implication du ISI.
Ce que ne mentionnent pas ces interprétations, c'est que l'ISI continue de jouer un rôle clé dans la supervision d'Al Qaeda pour le compte des services secrets US. Les articles de presse ont omis de mentionner deux faits importants et bien documentés :
1) L'ISI maintient des liens étroits avec la CIA. L'ISI est pratiquement une succursale de la SIA.
2) Al Qaeda est une création de la CIA. L'ISI fournit un soutien clandestin à Al Qaeda, agissant pour le compte des services secrets US.
L'implication soit d'Al Qaeda et /ou l'ISI suggère que les services secrets US étaient au courant et/ou impliqué dans le complot pour l'assassiner.
Article en anglais
Introduction, note éditoriale et traduction Mireille Delamarre pour www.planetenonviolence.org
Sunburns, Yakhonts, Missiles in the Caspian / Persic Gulf
The current force structure debate has seen numerous strong public statements by Australia's naval warfare lobbyists for a substantial and immediate growth in the RAN's Anti-Air Warfare capabilities. There are strong underlying reasons for such statements, since recent deployments of advanced Russian built anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCM) in effect threaten to make the RAN's surface combatants unusable in any escalated regional confrontation.
The recent leaking of a RAN sponsored study for up to four 30,000 tonne class CTOL or STOBAR aircraft carriers, each equipped with up to 20 F/A-18 Hornets or other fighters in the same weight class, supported by shipboard fixed wing AEW&C aircraft, as well as the RAN's desperate efforts to persuade the government to acquire several Kidd class destroyers, are both symptomatic of a realisation that the RAN's relative ranking in the regional naval power game is rapidly declining.
To best appreciate these circumstances, it is necessary to explore these new Russian missiles in some detail.
Russian ASCMs
During the Cold War the Soviet Navy was devoid of large deck aircraft carriers, and thus invested heavily in the development of large supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. These were initially designed for launch from warships, with variants and new types later developed for launch by submarines and aircraft.
The most capable of these weapons remained only in the Soviet arsenal until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the last decade many of the most advanced missiles have been exported to both China and India.
The Chinese PLA-AF and PLA-N have to date used subsonic ASCMs of domestic design. The C-601 series are an indigenous development of the Russian P-15 and P-20/21 series (SS-N-2 Styx), evolved via the coastal defence HY-2 Silkworm Styx clone. The subsonic weapon is carried in pairs by the H-6 Badger, itself a clone of the Tupolev article.
A more sophisticated and recent Chinese product is the C-801 and its sibling, the C-802. These missiles correspond to the French Exocet and US Harpoon, respectively. The C-801 uses a rocket sustainer, the C-802 a turbojet. The C-601, C-801 abd C-802 are available in ship launched, ground launched and air launched variants, and offer ranges between 20-55 NMI. There are no reports as yet of the Zvezda-Strela Kh-35/3M-60 Uran (SS-N-25 Switchblade) or `Harpoonski' being offered to the PRC.
The PLA-N is now in the process of fielding an additional two 956E Sovremennyy class destroyers, bringing the total up to 4 vessels. These are a Russian equivalent to the Kidd class. Each is armed with eight supersonic 3M-80 or 3M-82 Sunburn ASCMs.
India has pursued a far more aggressive naval power projection force buildup. The centre-piece of this program is the deployment of the Russian 3M-54 Alfa family of ship, sub and air launched ASCMs. Initial launch platforms for the Alfa will be Russian supplied Krivak warships and Kilo class diesel electric patrol submarines. Reports in the Indian press indicate that the intent is to also arm India's fleet of Tupolev Tu-142M Bear F maritime aircraft with this family of weapons, although other sources suggest the less capable Kh-35 Harpoonski may be used instead. The planned new Project 75 submarine replacement is to carry the supersonic (frequently referred to as hypersonic) Alfa variant.
India is currently in the process of having its 6 Bear Fs and 5 Il-38 Mays upgraded with a new avionics package, and is reported to have ordered another 8 Bears to more than double the fleet size. Several Tu-22M3 Backfires are being leased while the Bears are being retrofitted, and reports from India would suggest the Russians are pressuring India to buy the aircraft. Indian sources claim that the Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) is being considered as a weapon for the Backfire. Backfires are typically armed with either one or two 7 tonne Raduga Kh-22M Buran (AS-4 Kitchen) Mach 3 / 300 NMI ASCMs.
It would appear that Indian attempts to integrate the BAe Sea Eagle on the Bear have not proven successful.
Earlier this year, the Indian Navy trialed its Dhanush ship launched land attack ballistic missile, resumably derived from the Prithvi tactical ballistic missile. Reports in the Indian press indicate that there is some argument as to the relative merits of the Dhanush, against a land attack variant of the Alfa cruise missile.
These developments in China and India parallel their massive investment into fleets of the Su-27/30 fighter aircraft. Air launched version of the Sunburn and Alfa are on offer for the Su-30 and the larger Su-32FN/34 variant.
At this time India is leasing two Beriev A-50 AWACS aircraft for evaluation, while China is still smarting from the cancellation of its widely publicised A-50I/Phalcon AWACS buy, following US pressure on Israel. We can reasonably surmise that the PLA-AF will now direclty acquire the basic Russian A-50 model instead.
China attempted to acquire the Tu-22M3 Backfire in 1993 but the Russians declined under alleged pressure from the US and Japan. Should they again request this aircraft it is unlikely the request would be denied, after the Kosovo disagreement between Russia and NATO.
The Sunburn, Alfa, and their cousin, the Yakhont, are all very capable missiles with potential for further growth in capability, and role expansion to land attack missions where such variants do not exist already.
The massive Moskit/SS-N-22 Sunburn is available in ship, sub and air launch versions, the latter compatible with the Su-30 and Su-32FN/34 Flanker variants. This Mach 2 ASCM is carried by the PLA-N's four Sovremennyy class DDGs, each of which is armed with 8 rounds (Rosvooruzheniye).
Type 956E Sovremennyy class destroyers are armed with the SS-N-22 Sunburn.
The Raduga 3M-80, 3M-82 and Kh-41 Moskit
The Raduga 3M-80, 3M-82 and Kh-41 Moskit (SS-N-22 Sunburn) are all variants of the same 4.5 tonne supersonic rocket-ramjet missile. This weapon is the primary armament of the 956E Sovremennyy class destroyer used by China and is credited with a range between 50 and 120 nautical miles.
Unlike subsonic Western anti-ship missiles such as the Harpoon and Exocet, the Moskit is a supersonic sea-skimmer. It can be programmed to fly a high altitude trajectory at Mach 3, or a sea-skimming trajectory at Mach 2.2. If the sea skimming mode is chosen, the missile will be first detected by a warship under attack when it emerges over the horizon at a distance of about 15 to 25 nautical miles. This provides the defences on the ship with about 25-60 seconds of warning time before impact. Moreover the speed of the Moskit makes it a challenging target for many shipboard defences.
The OKB-52 3K-55/3M-55 Yakhont
The OKB-52 3K-55/3M-55 Yakhont (SS-N-26) is like the Moskit a complete family of supersonic rocket-ramjet missiles. Ship, submarine, air and ground launched variants exist. The missile weighs 3 tonnes at launch, and uses a liquid propellant for the ramjet which propels it at speeds between Mach 2.0 and 2.5. The Yakhont typically cruises to the target area at high altitude, and then descends for a sea skimming attack from under the horizon. The distance at which it begins its descent can be programmed before launch, this determining the achievable range which is between 65 and 160 nautical miles( Refer Tsarev V., Melnikov V., `Yakhont - New Generation Antiship Missile', Military Parade, Exclusives, 2000.).
The Novator 3M-54 Club
The third advanced missile is the new Novator 3M-54 Club (SS-N-27 Sizzler) which like the preceding missiles, comprises a complete family of ship, submarine and air launched weapons. Unlike submarine launched Moskit and Yakont variants, the Alfa is designed for launch from a 533 mm torpedo tube, or a vertical launch tube( Refer Military Parade, 2000-1 Exclusives Issue, Kamnev P., `The Club Missile System').
Five distinct variants of this missile exist. The basic 3M-54E1 and 3M-14E most closely resemble either a winged Harpoon or the US Navy's anti-ship Tomahawk missile. This weapon has a range of 160 nautical miles and is subsonic. The 3M-54E1 uses an ARGS-54 active radar seeker and Glonass satellite and inertial guidance, the 3M-14E Glonass satellite and inertial guidance alone.
The more advanced 3M-54E combines the subsonic cruise airframe of the 3M-54E1/3M-14E with a Mach 2.9 rocket propelled guided payload. Like its subsonic sibling, it approaches from under the horizon using the same radar seeker to detect its target. Once locked on, it discards the cruise airframe, fires its rocket motor, and accelerates to Mach 2.9 at a sea skimming altitude of 15 feet. Novator claim the missile follows a zig-zag flightpath to defeat defences.
Both the 3M-54E1 and 3M-54E are small weapons which are difficult to detect on radar, especially should even basic radar signature reduction techniques be applied to them. The use of a bandpass radome and minimal absorbent coatings could push the weapon's head on radar cross section down to that of a large grapefruit (Refer Knott, Schaeffer & Tuley, Radar Cross Section, Ch.14).
The 91RE1 and 91RE2 are rocket boosted homing torpedoes, most closely resembling the US ASROC and Sea Lance weapons. All five weapons in this family share a common launch system and thus any ship, submarine or aircraft equipped for these weapons can carry an arbitrary mix.
All of these sea skimming missiles outclass the Harpoon used by the ADF and other nations in the nearer region, both in terms of range, and in the instance of the Moskit, Yakhont and supersonic Alfa also speed. For all practical purposes, the RAN's surface fleet is outgunned. In the absence of any comparable Western missiles, this situation cannot be easily remedied. Since the USN, Royal Navy and French Navy all rely on carrier based air power, they are not under strong pressure to develop such missiles.
The Tu-95K-22 Bear G missile carrier was armed with up to three Kh-22 Burya (AS-4 Kitchen) ASCMs, one on the centreline and two on wing root pylons (US DoD).
India is currently in the process of refitting its 6 strong force of Tu-142M Bear F with a new avionic package, reported to include either the 3M-54E/E1 Alfa or Kh-35 Uran ASCMs. It would also appear that India has signed for another 8 Bears to bring the total force up to 14 aircraft. With an unrefuelled radius of up to 4,000 NMI, the Bear becomes a formidable maritime power projection asset Editor: this deal later collapsed as Leninetz ran into problems with the Bear upgrade (Bharat-Rakshak/US DoD).
India is currently leasing several Backfires C strategic strike aircraft, with the likelihood of a purchase being discussed. In its basic configuration it carries either one or two Mach 3 Kh-22M Kitchen cruise missiles (depicted). Flying from INS Port Blair, the Backfire can cover the WA and NT coastline between Learmonth and Darwin Editor: this deal later collapsed as Leninetz ran into problems with the Bear upgrade (FAS).
The 3K-55 Yakhont is a Mach 2 seaskimming ramjet ASCM which is available in air, ship, sub and ground launched versions. The weapon can be programmed for high altitude profiles, low altitude profiles, or combined profiles with a sea-skimming terminal phase (Rosvooruzheniye).
Via Wikipedia
India has licenced the supersonic ramjet Kh-61 Yakhont as the Brahmos A/S series, a family of ground, sea and air launched cruise missiles. The original Yakhont has been integrated on the Su-30 series (NIC).
3M54E1 Sizzler subsonic ASCM (Novator)
The most sophisticated of the current crop of Russian ASCMs is the 3M-54 Club (SS-N-27 Sizzler) series. Left to right: 91RE2 rocket propelled torp, 3M-54E hypersonic ASCM, 3M-54E1/3M-14E subsonic ASCM/SLCM (TASM/TLAM-ski), 91RE1 rocket propelled torp. The 3M-54E uses a Tomahawk style cruise stage and a Mach 2.9 rocket propelled warhead section (Rosvooruzheniye).
Russian Bear F (US DoD)
The Tu-142M Bear F
The baseline Bear F long range maritime patrol aircraft was originally armed only with depth charges, sonobuoys and homing torpedoes. The aircraft has considerable growth potential as a carrier of anti-shipping or land attack cruise missiles, a role performed by its sibling Bear G and H models during the Cold War. The SRPE MKU-5-6 rotary launcher for the Bear H and Kh-55SM cruise missile can be readily adapted to the Bear F, and its size easily permits the carriage of the 3M-54E, 3M-54E1 and Kh-35. The weight of the 3M-54E may limit the load to 4 or 5 rounds. The common wing root pylon used on the Bear G and H is rated for the 7 tonne Kh-22 missile, and could accommodate single rounds or pairs of the 3M-54E, 3M-54E1, Kh-35, Kh-41 and possibly the Kh-22 or KSR-5. A best case loadout of the supersonic 3M-54E could be as large as ten rounds.
Another issue of some concern is that once the basic version of such a missile is deployed operationally, the incremental cost of deploying more advanced versions is very modest indeed. Moreover, land attack versions using satellite navigation are becoming available and could also be fielded with little additional effort. The Russians have developed optical scene matching guidance hardware similar to that used on the US Tomahawk cruise missile( Refer Solunin V., Gursky B., `OPTRONIC MISSILE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS:ACCURACY, LOW SIGNATURE AND SIMPLICITY', Military Parade, Jan-Feb, 1999. The system described resembles in principle the US Scene Matching Area Correlator used on the land attack Tomahawk). Therefore submarine launched cruise missiles similar to the US Tomahawk, based on the 3M-54E1, are now technically feasible and would be compatible with the launch systems being fielded by India.
The Bear F has the operating radius, unrefuelled, to penetrate well into Western Australian and Northern Territory airspace from its home base at INS Rajali. The Tu-22M3 has the operating radius to cover an arc between Learmonth and Darwin if sortied from INS Port Blair, and it can use any runway capable of taking an extended range 767 airliner. Should China acquire the Backfire, it can provide almost identical coverage operating from the former Flanker base on Hainan Dao.
Defending Against Supersonic ASCMs
The difficulty presented to a defending warship by the latest Russian ASCMs cannot be understated. While Australia's naval lobbyists will argue that the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), supported by Nulka and radar absorbent mats will defeat these weapons, or that the damage produced by a Harpoon or Tomahawk sized warhead cannot be fatal to a modern warship, or that the supersonic speed of the ASCMs prvents them from properly acquiring their targets, the reality is a little more complex than they would have us believe. Indeed, the effort being poured by the naval lobby into promoting the purchase of Aegis warships and CTOL/STOBAR carriers would suggest a measure of doublethink which is a little difficult to grasp !
A defending warship can be attacked at ranges between 80-160 NMI which places the launch platform well below the horizon, and outside the range of virtually all SAMs and the Harpoon ASCM. The Moskit, Yakhont and Alfa are all designed for a sea skimming regime of attack, the first two flying a high altitude midcourse phase, with the Alfa flying a subsonic sea skimming midcourse phase.
The first warning a warship will get is when these missiles emerge from behind the radar horizon at about 20-25 NMI, depending on factors such as the height of this ship's radar and ESM antennas, the cruise height of the ASCM and the sea state. Whether it is an ESM alarm or a radar track, warning time between detection and intended impact is between 50 and 60 seconds for the Moskit or Yakhont, and 37 to 46 seconds for the supersonic Alfa. In this time frame the warship must either shoot down or decoy the missile.
The first line of defence are SAMs, such as the ESSM or Standard. For these missiles the radar must acquire and track the inbound ASCM, upon which a SAM is launched and under datalink control steered toward the ASCM. Once close enough, an engagement radar such as the SPG-60/61/62 must illuminate the ASCM for several seconds for the semi-active radar homing SAM to guide itself to impact. If we make the assumption, favourable to the warship, that the SAM can almost instantaneously accelerate to around Mach 3, and it is launched within 3 seconds of ASCM detection, the ASCM will hopefully be destroyed at a distance somewhere around 10 to 12 NMI from the ship.
What happens if there are two ASCMs fired in a salvo ? Then the warship has to first paint one ASCM for several seconds to impact, and then quickly slew the illuminator antenna to the second ASCM to kill it. The launch of the second SAM must be delayed by the time it takes to illuminate for the first SAM since otherwise the second SAM will miss without guidance. If we assume 5 seconds of illumination to kill the first SAM and 2 seconds to slew the antenna, the second ASCM is killed at a distance around 2.8 to 3.8 NMI closer to the ship.
Let's now assume an increasing salvo size of ASCMs. With 3 ASCMs, the distance for the last missile kill is 5.6 to 7.6 NMI closer, or around 3.5 to 5 NMI from the warship. This is of course getting problematic, since SAMs have a minimum engagement range inside of which they do not have the energy to manoeuvre effectively to kill a supersonic target. That range is figure which is seldom publicised, but usually falls inside 2 to 5 NMI. So the fourth ASCM cannot be stopped by a SAM since the illuminator is saturated with ASCMs.
At this point it is strictly a contest between the decoys, onboard jammers, radar absorbers, Phalanx CIWS if fitted, and the quality of the seeker design and its signal processing smarts. A dumb seeker is likely to be decoyed, a smart one less likely. A CIWS gun is usually effective out to around 1-2 NMI and may bag the fourth SCM. If it doesn't then the ship is in dire trouble.
Of course, if 5 or 6 ASCMs are salvoed, odds are the ship will be hit.
Is there anything else the ship can do ? If it has two illuminators on either beam it can turn into the ASCMs to bring a second illuminator to bear. Then it becomes an issue of how many ASCMs can be salvoed at the ship. Odds are that eight supersonic ASCMs will take out even a warship with a very modern AAW package, simply by saturating the fire control system. Even an Aegis cruiser with four SPG-62 engagement radars/illuminators can at best bring three radars/illuminators to bear against a single sector.
What we have described is not a vital and critical secret, the publication of which will irreparably compromise the ADF. It is nothing less than absolutely standard Cold War era Soviet anti-shipping strike doctrine ! Shoot off enough supersonic ASCMs and one or more will get through the saturated air defences of a warship and either kill it, or wound it well enough for a follow-on coup dgrace' shot. The Soviet investment in more than 120 Kh-22M Kitchen firing Backfires was no accident.
How difficult is it to deliver a saturation missile attack ? A Sovremenyy can shoot 8 SS-N-22 Sunburns, a Charlie SSGN 8 SS-N-7 Starbrights, and even a Kilo SSK can push up to six SS-N-27 Alfas out of its torpedo tubes, if it is not equipped with a vertical launch tube package.
If you are using Bears, then depending on the configuration of the aircraft you could shoot up to 10 Alfas. A Backfire could deliver between 4 and 8 Alfas on external hardpoints, depending wholly on the launcher design used. If you are using the Su-27 or Su-30 as a delivery platform, then 2 to 4 Alfas, or 2 Yakhonts could be carried per aircraft. This means that a maritime strike package of 2 to 6 Su-30s could deliver a saturation strike against most modern warships. If the ship is better defended, more fighters can be sortied. Even if the SAMs bag every ASCM, then an attacking air force merely needs to keep throwing ASCMs until the SAM magazines on the defending warships are exhausted. Warships cruising at 20-30 KT cannot outrun aircraft which fly at 400-500 KTAS, once contact is made aircraft can keep revisiting the target until they achieve the desired effect.
Even expending twenty 1 million dollar ASCMs is an excellent return on a warship kill.
Implications for the ADF
The regional proliferation of late generation Russian supersonic ASCMs means that all navies in the nearer region, including the RAN, would be operating at a very high risk in any situation where India or China is involved as an adversary. Moreover, other regional players may follow suit and shop in Russia.
The best defence against such ASCMs is to nail the launch platform before it shoots, or even gets into shooting range. If the launch platform is a surface ship or aircraft, then this is a job best performed by a tanker supported package of fighters armed either with a hefty load of Harpoons or AAMs. If the launch platform is a sub, then coordinated use of ASW assets such as the AP-3C and Collins SSKs is a less risky approach. Hence the RAN's interest in CTOL/STOBAR carriers, SPY-1F Aegis for frigates and Kidd class ships.
Curiously, we have not seen any public proposals to add further illuminator/engagement radars (eg SPG-60 series) on either the FFGs or the ANZACs. Adding an additional pair to either class would double the ships' capacity to handle a saturation attack, and also increase the likelihood of successfully killing a 2 round Alfa salvo. However, it would also weaken the case for a SPY-1 Aegis system, and bigger ships to carry it, which perhaps explains its lack of attractiveness.
The big question which must be asked is a simple one. At what point does the massive expediture on SAMs and radars required to get any measure of survivability from a surface warship outweigh the operational usefulness of the vessel itself ? If tanker supported fighters, which are capable of performing many other roles, can survivably destroy opposing ASCM shooting warships and aircraft, is not air power a better investment for blue water ASuW and AAW ?
The naval lobby frequently likes to argue that air power is an adjunct and thus a supporting capability in the blue water ASuW and AAW roles. Perhaps it is time for them to finally accept that technology has overtaken the small surface warship, and that without prohibitive investments in AAW/SAM capabilities, it is best used as a niche asset for specialised roles such as ASW, patrol, escort and fire support in lower threat level environments.
As for some of the other implications of a region armed with cruise missile capable strategic power projection assets, that is best left for future discussion.
Imagery Sources: US DoD, Author, PLA-N
Line Artwork: © 2000, 2007 Carlo Kopp
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The recent leaking of a RAN sponsored study for up to four 30,000 tonne class CTOL or STOBAR aircraft carriers, each equipped with up to 20 F/A-18 Hornets or other fighters in the same weight class, supported by shipboard fixed wing AEW&C aircraft, as well as the RAN's desperate efforts to persuade the government to acquire several Kidd class destroyers, are both symptomatic of a realisation that the RAN's relative ranking in the regional naval power game is rapidly declining.
To best appreciate these circumstances, it is necessary to explore these new Russian missiles in some detail.
Russian ASCMs
During the Cold War the Soviet Navy was devoid of large deck aircraft carriers, and thus invested heavily in the development of large supersonic anti-ship cruise missiles. These were initially designed for launch from warships, with variants and new types later developed for launch by submarines and aircraft.
The most capable of these weapons remained only in the Soviet arsenal until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Over the last decade many of the most advanced missiles have been exported to both China and India.
The Chinese PLA-AF and PLA-N have to date used subsonic ASCMs of domestic design. The C-601 series are an indigenous development of the Russian P-15 and P-20/21 series (SS-N-2 Styx), evolved via the coastal defence HY-2 Silkworm Styx clone. The subsonic weapon is carried in pairs by the H-6 Badger, itself a clone of the Tupolev article.
A more sophisticated and recent Chinese product is the C-801 and its sibling, the C-802. These missiles correspond to the French Exocet and US Harpoon, respectively. The C-801 uses a rocket sustainer, the C-802 a turbojet. The C-601, C-801 abd C-802 are available in ship launched, ground launched and air launched variants, and offer ranges between 20-55 NMI. There are no reports as yet of the Zvezda-Strela Kh-35/3M-60 Uran (SS-N-25 Switchblade) or `Harpoonski' being offered to the PRC.
The PLA-N is now in the process of fielding an additional two 956E Sovremennyy class destroyers, bringing the total up to 4 vessels. These are a Russian equivalent to the Kidd class. Each is armed with eight supersonic 3M-80 or 3M-82 Sunburn ASCMs.
India has pursued a far more aggressive naval power projection force buildup. The centre-piece of this program is the deployment of the Russian 3M-54 Alfa family of ship, sub and air launched ASCMs. Initial launch platforms for the Alfa will be Russian supplied Krivak warships and Kilo class diesel electric patrol submarines. Reports in the Indian press indicate that the intent is to also arm India's fleet of Tupolev Tu-142M Bear F maritime aircraft with this family of weapons, although other sources suggest the less capable Kh-35 Harpoonski may be used instead. The planned new Project 75 submarine replacement is to carry the supersonic (frequently referred to as hypersonic) Alfa variant.
India is currently in the process of having its 6 Bear Fs and 5 Il-38 Mays upgraded with a new avionics package, and is reported to have ordered another 8 Bears to more than double the fleet size. Several Tu-22M3 Backfires are being leased while the Bears are being retrofitted, and reports from India would suggest the Russians are pressuring India to buy the aircraft. Indian sources claim that the Kh-31A (AS-17 Krypton) is being considered as a weapon for the Backfire. Backfires are typically armed with either one or two 7 tonne Raduga Kh-22M Buran (AS-4 Kitchen) Mach 3 / 300 NMI ASCMs.
It would appear that Indian attempts to integrate the BAe Sea Eagle on the Bear have not proven successful.
Earlier this year, the Indian Navy trialed its Dhanush ship launched land attack ballistic missile, resumably derived from the Prithvi tactical ballistic missile. Reports in the Indian press indicate that there is some argument as to the relative merits of the Dhanush, against a land attack variant of the Alfa cruise missile.
These developments in China and India parallel their massive investment into fleets of the Su-27/30 fighter aircraft. Air launched version of the Sunburn and Alfa are on offer for the Su-30 and the larger Su-32FN/34 variant.
At this time India is leasing two Beriev A-50 AWACS aircraft for evaluation, while China is still smarting from the cancellation of its widely publicised A-50I/Phalcon AWACS buy, following US pressure on Israel. We can reasonably surmise that the PLA-AF will now direclty acquire the basic Russian A-50 model instead.
China attempted to acquire the Tu-22M3 Backfire in 1993 but the Russians declined under alleged pressure from the US and Japan. Should they again request this aircraft it is unlikely the request would be denied, after the Kosovo disagreement between Russia and NATO.
The Sunburn, Alfa, and their cousin, the Yakhont, are all very capable missiles with potential for further growth in capability, and role expansion to land attack missions where such variants do not exist already.
The massive Moskit/SS-N-22 Sunburn is available in ship, sub and air launch versions, the latter compatible with the Su-30 and Su-32FN/34 Flanker variants. This Mach 2 ASCM is carried by the PLA-N's four Sovremennyy class DDGs, each of which is armed with 8 rounds (Rosvooruzheniye).
Type 956E Sovremennyy class destroyers are armed with the SS-N-22 Sunburn.
The Raduga 3M-80, 3M-82 and Kh-41 Moskit
The Raduga 3M-80, 3M-82 and Kh-41 Moskit (SS-N-22 Sunburn) are all variants of the same 4.5 tonne supersonic rocket-ramjet missile. This weapon is the primary armament of the 956E Sovremennyy class destroyer used by China and is credited with a range between 50 and 120 nautical miles.
Unlike subsonic Western anti-ship missiles such as the Harpoon and Exocet, the Moskit is a supersonic sea-skimmer. It can be programmed to fly a high altitude trajectory at Mach 3, or a sea-skimming trajectory at Mach 2.2. If the sea skimming mode is chosen, the missile will be first detected by a warship under attack when it emerges over the horizon at a distance of about 15 to 25 nautical miles. This provides the defences on the ship with about 25-60 seconds of warning time before impact. Moreover the speed of the Moskit makes it a challenging target for many shipboard defences.
The OKB-52 3K-55/3M-55 Yakhont
The OKB-52 3K-55/3M-55 Yakhont (SS-N-26) is like the Moskit a complete family of supersonic rocket-ramjet missiles. Ship, submarine, air and ground launched variants exist. The missile weighs 3 tonnes at launch, and uses a liquid propellant for the ramjet which propels it at speeds between Mach 2.0 and 2.5. The Yakhont typically cruises to the target area at high altitude, and then descends for a sea skimming attack from under the horizon. The distance at which it begins its descent can be programmed before launch, this determining the achievable range which is between 65 and 160 nautical miles( Refer Tsarev V., Melnikov V., `Yakhont - New Generation Antiship Missile', Military Parade, Exclusives, 2000.).
The Novator 3M-54 Club
The third advanced missile is the new Novator 3M-54 Club (SS-N-27 Sizzler) which like the preceding missiles, comprises a complete family of ship, submarine and air launched weapons. Unlike submarine launched Moskit and Yakont variants, the Alfa is designed for launch from a 533 mm torpedo tube, or a vertical launch tube( Refer Military Parade, 2000-1 Exclusives Issue, Kamnev P., `The Club Missile System').
Five distinct variants of this missile exist. The basic 3M-54E1 and 3M-14E most closely resemble either a winged Harpoon or the US Navy's anti-ship Tomahawk missile. This weapon has a range of 160 nautical miles and is subsonic. The 3M-54E1 uses an ARGS-54 active radar seeker and Glonass satellite and inertial guidance, the 3M-14E Glonass satellite and inertial guidance alone.
The more advanced 3M-54E combines the subsonic cruise airframe of the 3M-54E1/3M-14E with a Mach 2.9 rocket propelled guided payload. Like its subsonic sibling, it approaches from under the horizon using the same radar seeker to detect its target. Once locked on, it discards the cruise airframe, fires its rocket motor, and accelerates to Mach 2.9 at a sea skimming altitude of 15 feet. Novator claim the missile follows a zig-zag flightpath to defeat defences.
Both the 3M-54E1 and 3M-54E are small weapons which are difficult to detect on radar, especially should even basic radar signature reduction techniques be applied to them. The use of a bandpass radome and minimal absorbent coatings could push the weapon's head on radar cross section down to that of a large grapefruit (Refer Knott, Schaeffer & Tuley, Radar Cross Section, Ch.14).
The 91RE1 and 91RE2 are rocket boosted homing torpedoes, most closely resembling the US ASROC and Sea Lance weapons. All five weapons in this family share a common launch system and thus any ship, submarine or aircraft equipped for these weapons can carry an arbitrary mix.
All of these sea skimming missiles outclass the Harpoon used by the ADF and other nations in the nearer region, both in terms of range, and in the instance of the Moskit, Yakhont and supersonic Alfa also speed. For all practical purposes, the RAN's surface fleet is outgunned. In the absence of any comparable Western missiles, this situation cannot be easily remedied. Since the USN, Royal Navy and French Navy all rely on carrier based air power, they are not under strong pressure to develop such missiles.
The Tu-95K-22 Bear G missile carrier was armed with up to three Kh-22 Burya (AS-4 Kitchen) ASCMs, one on the centreline and two on wing root pylons (US DoD).
India is currently in the process of refitting its 6 strong force of Tu-142M Bear F with a new avionic package, reported to include either the 3M-54E/E1 Alfa or Kh-35 Uran ASCMs. It would also appear that India has signed for another 8 Bears to bring the total force up to 14 aircraft. With an unrefuelled radius of up to 4,000 NMI, the Bear becomes a formidable maritime power projection asset Editor: this deal later collapsed as Leninetz ran into problems with the Bear upgrade (Bharat-Rakshak/US DoD).
India is currently leasing several Backfires C strategic strike aircraft, with the likelihood of a purchase being discussed. In its basic configuration it carries either one or two Mach 3 Kh-22M Kitchen cruise missiles (depicted). Flying from INS Port Blair, the Backfire can cover the WA and NT coastline between Learmonth and Darwin Editor: this deal later collapsed as Leninetz ran into problems with the Bear upgrade (FAS).
The 3K-55 Yakhont is a Mach 2 seaskimming ramjet ASCM which is available in air, ship, sub and ground launched versions. The weapon can be programmed for high altitude profiles, low altitude profiles, or combined profiles with a sea-skimming terminal phase (Rosvooruzheniye).
Via Wikipedia
India has licenced the supersonic ramjet Kh-61 Yakhont as the Brahmos A/S series, a family of ground, sea and air launched cruise missiles. The original Yakhont has been integrated on the Su-30 series (NIC).
3M54E1 Sizzler subsonic ASCM (Novator)
The most sophisticated of the current crop of Russian ASCMs is the 3M-54 Club (SS-N-27 Sizzler) series. Left to right: 91RE2 rocket propelled torp, 3M-54E hypersonic ASCM, 3M-54E1/3M-14E subsonic ASCM/SLCM (TASM/TLAM-ski), 91RE1 rocket propelled torp. The 3M-54E uses a Tomahawk style cruise stage and a Mach 2.9 rocket propelled warhead section (Rosvooruzheniye).
Russian Bear F (US DoD)
The Tu-142M Bear F
The baseline Bear F long range maritime patrol aircraft was originally armed only with depth charges, sonobuoys and homing torpedoes. The aircraft has considerable growth potential as a carrier of anti-shipping or land attack cruise missiles, a role performed by its sibling Bear G and H models during the Cold War. The SRPE MKU-5-6 rotary launcher for the Bear H and Kh-55SM cruise missile can be readily adapted to the Bear F, and its size easily permits the carriage of the 3M-54E, 3M-54E1 and Kh-35. The weight of the 3M-54E may limit the load to 4 or 5 rounds. The common wing root pylon used on the Bear G and H is rated for the 7 tonne Kh-22 missile, and could accommodate single rounds or pairs of the 3M-54E, 3M-54E1, Kh-35, Kh-41 and possibly the Kh-22 or KSR-5. A best case loadout of the supersonic 3M-54E could be as large as ten rounds.
Another issue of some concern is that once the basic version of such a missile is deployed operationally, the incremental cost of deploying more advanced versions is very modest indeed. Moreover, land attack versions using satellite navigation are becoming available and could also be fielded with little additional effort. The Russians have developed optical scene matching guidance hardware similar to that used on the US Tomahawk cruise missile( Refer Solunin V., Gursky B., `OPTRONIC MISSILE GUIDANCE SYSTEMS:ACCURACY, LOW SIGNATURE AND SIMPLICITY', Military Parade, Jan-Feb, 1999. The system described resembles in principle the US Scene Matching Area Correlator used on the land attack Tomahawk). Therefore submarine launched cruise missiles similar to the US Tomahawk, based on the 3M-54E1, are now technically feasible and would be compatible with the launch systems being fielded by India.
The Bear F has the operating radius, unrefuelled, to penetrate well into Western Australian and Northern Territory airspace from its home base at INS Rajali. The Tu-22M3 has the operating radius to cover an arc between Learmonth and Darwin if sortied from INS Port Blair, and it can use any runway capable of taking an extended range 767 airliner. Should China acquire the Backfire, it can provide almost identical coverage operating from the former Flanker base on Hainan Dao.
Defending Against Supersonic ASCMs
The difficulty presented to a defending warship by the latest Russian ASCMs cannot be understated. While Australia's naval lobbyists will argue that the Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM), supported by Nulka and radar absorbent mats will defeat these weapons, or that the damage produced by a Harpoon or Tomahawk sized warhead cannot be fatal to a modern warship, or that the supersonic speed of the ASCMs prvents them from properly acquiring their targets, the reality is a little more complex than they would have us believe. Indeed, the effort being poured by the naval lobby into promoting the purchase of Aegis warships and CTOL/STOBAR carriers would suggest a measure of doublethink which is a little difficult to grasp !
A defending warship can be attacked at ranges between 80-160 NMI which places the launch platform well below the horizon, and outside the range of virtually all SAMs and the Harpoon ASCM. The Moskit, Yakhont and Alfa are all designed for a sea skimming regime of attack, the first two flying a high altitude midcourse phase, with the Alfa flying a subsonic sea skimming midcourse phase.
The first warning a warship will get is when these missiles emerge from behind the radar horizon at about 20-25 NMI, depending on factors such as the height of this ship's radar and ESM antennas, the cruise height of the ASCM and the sea state. Whether it is an ESM alarm or a radar track, warning time between detection and intended impact is between 50 and 60 seconds for the Moskit or Yakhont, and 37 to 46 seconds for the supersonic Alfa. In this time frame the warship must either shoot down or decoy the missile.
The first line of defence are SAMs, such as the ESSM or Standard. For these missiles the radar must acquire and track the inbound ASCM, upon which a SAM is launched and under datalink control steered toward the ASCM. Once close enough, an engagement radar such as the SPG-60/61/62 must illuminate the ASCM for several seconds for the semi-active radar homing SAM to guide itself to impact. If we make the assumption, favourable to the warship, that the SAM can almost instantaneously accelerate to around Mach 3, and it is launched within 3 seconds of ASCM detection, the ASCM will hopefully be destroyed at a distance somewhere around 10 to 12 NMI from the ship.
What happens if there are two ASCMs fired in a salvo ? Then the warship has to first paint one ASCM for several seconds to impact, and then quickly slew the illuminator antenna to the second ASCM to kill it. The launch of the second SAM must be delayed by the time it takes to illuminate for the first SAM since otherwise the second SAM will miss without guidance. If we assume 5 seconds of illumination to kill the first SAM and 2 seconds to slew the antenna, the second ASCM is killed at a distance around 2.8 to 3.8 NMI closer to the ship.
Let's now assume an increasing salvo size of ASCMs. With 3 ASCMs, the distance for the last missile kill is 5.6 to 7.6 NMI closer, or around 3.5 to 5 NMI from the warship. This is of course getting problematic, since SAMs have a minimum engagement range inside of which they do not have the energy to manoeuvre effectively to kill a supersonic target. That range is figure which is seldom publicised, but usually falls inside 2 to 5 NMI. So the fourth ASCM cannot be stopped by a SAM since the illuminator is saturated with ASCMs.
At this point it is strictly a contest between the decoys, onboard jammers, radar absorbers, Phalanx CIWS if fitted, and the quality of the seeker design and its signal processing smarts. A dumb seeker is likely to be decoyed, a smart one less likely. A CIWS gun is usually effective out to around 1-2 NMI and may bag the fourth SCM. If it doesn't then the ship is in dire trouble.
Of course, if 5 or 6 ASCMs are salvoed, odds are the ship will be hit.
Is there anything else the ship can do ? If it has two illuminators on either beam it can turn into the ASCMs to bring a second illuminator to bear. Then it becomes an issue of how many ASCMs can be salvoed at the ship. Odds are that eight supersonic ASCMs will take out even a warship with a very modern AAW package, simply by saturating the fire control system. Even an Aegis cruiser with four SPG-62 engagement radars/illuminators can at best bring three radars/illuminators to bear against a single sector.
What we have described is not a vital and critical secret, the publication of which will irreparably compromise the ADF. It is nothing less than absolutely standard Cold War era Soviet anti-shipping strike doctrine ! Shoot off enough supersonic ASCMs and one or more will get through the saturated air defences of a warship and either kill it, or wound it well enough for a follow-on coup dgrace' shot. The Soviet investment in more than 120 Kh-22M Kitchen firing Backfires was no accident.
How difficult is it to deliver a saturation missile attack ? A Sovremenyy can shoot 8 SS-N-22 Sunburns, a Charlie SSGN 8 SS-N-7 Starbrights, and even a Kilo SSK can push up to six SS-N-27 Alfas out of its torpedo tubes, if it is not equipped with a vertical launch tube package.
If you are using Bears, then depending on the configuration of the aircraft you could shoot up to 10 Alfas. A Backfire could deliver between 4 and 8 Alfas on external hardpoints, depending wholly on the launcher design used. If you are using the Su-27 or Su-30 as a delivery platform, then 2 to 4 Alfas, or 2 Yakhonts could be carried per aircraft. This means that a maritime strike package of 2 to 6 Su-30s could deliver a saturation strike against most modern warships. If the ship is better defended, more fighters can be sortied. Even if the SAMs bag every ASCM, then an attacking air force merely needs to keep throwing ASCMs until the SAM magazines on the defending warships are exhausted. Warships cruising at 20-30 KT cannot outrun aircraft which fly at 400-500 KTAS, once contact is made aircraft can keep revisiting the target until they achieve the desired effect.
Even expending twenty 1 million dollar ASCMs is an excellent return on a warship kill.
Implications for the ADF
The regional proliferation of late generation Russian supersonic ASCMs means that all navies in the nearer region, including the RAN, would be operating at a very high risk in any situation where India or China is involved as an adversary. Moreover, other regional players may follow suit and shop in Russia.
The best defence against such ASCMs is to nail the launch platform before it shoots, or even gets into shooting range. If the launch platform is a surface ship or aircraft, then this is a job best performed by a tanker supported package of fighters armed either with a hefty load of Harpoons or AAMs. If the launch platform is a sub, then coordinated use of ASW assets such as the AP-3C and Collins SSKs is a less risky approach. Hence the RAN's interest in CTOL/STOBAR carriers, SPY-1F Aegis for frigates and Kidd class ships.
Curiously, we have not seen any public proposals to add further illuminator/engagement radars (eg SPG-60 series) on either the FFGs or the ANZACs. Adding an additional pair to either class would double the ships' capacity to handle a saturation attack, and also increase the likelihood of successfully killing a 2 round Alfa salvo. However, it would also weaken the case for a SPY-1 Aegis system, and bigger ships to carry it, which perhaps explains its lack of attractiveness.
The big question which must be asked is a simple one. At what point does the massive expediture on SAMs and radars required to get any measure of survivability from a surface warship outweigh the operational usefulness of the vessel itself ? If tanker supported fighters, which are capable of performing many other roles, can survivably destroy opposing ASCM shooting warships and aircraft, is not air power a better investment for blue water ASuW and AAW ?
The naval lobby frequently likes to argue that air power is an adjunct and thus a supporting capability in the blue water ASuW and AAW roles. Perhaps it is time for them to finally accept that technology has overtaken the small surface warship, and that without prohibitive investments in AAW/SAM capabilities, it is best used as a niche asset for specialised roles such as ASW, patrol, escort and fire support in lower threat level environments.
As for some of the other implications of a region armed with cruise missile capable strategic power projection assets, that is best left for future discussion.
Imagery Sources: US DoD, Author, PLA-N
Line Artwork: © 2000, 2007 Carlo Kopp
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Monday, September 01, 2008
It began in Algeria in the lat 1980s when zionist jew Larbi Belkheir created false islamic groups in Algeria, Morocco and Afghanistan for Israel
The case of Reda Hassaine and the blatant lies of western intelligences services (French, US and UK) ruled by zionist jews from Tel Aviv... You will understand how israelis set up false islamic groups by investigating in Algeria the zionist jew General-major Larbi Belkheir.
Haroon Rashid Aswat is a radical Muslim of Indian descent but born and raised in Britain. Around 1995, when he was about 21 years old, he left Britain and attended militant training camps in Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is said to have later told investigators that he once served as a bodyguard for Osama bin Laden. In the late 1990s, he returns to Britain and becomes a “highly public aide” to radical London imam Abu Hamza al-Masri. Reda Hassaine, an informant for the French and British intelligence services (see After March 1997 and Late January 1999), will later recall regularly seeing Aswat at the Finsbury Park mosque where Abu Hamza preaches. Hassaine frequently sees Aswat recruiting young men to join al-Qaeda. “Inside the mosque he would sit with the new recruits telling them about life after death and the obligation of every Muslim to do the jihad against the unbelievers. All the talk was about killing in order to go to paradise and get the 72 virgins.” Aswat also shows potential recruits videos of the militants fighting in Bosnia and Chechnya. Hassaine will add: “He was always wearing Afghan or combat clothes. In the evening he offered some tea to the people who would sit with him to listen to the heroic action of the mujaheddin before joining the cleric for the finishing touch of brainwashing. The British didn’t seem to understand how dangerous these people were.” Hassaine presumably tells his British handlers about Aswat, as he is regularly reporting about activities as the mosque around this time, but the British take no action. [Sunday Times (London), 7/31/2005] It will later be reported that Aswat is the mastermind of the 7/7 London bombings (see Late June-July 7, 2005). Some of the 7/7 suicide bombers regularly attended the Finsbury Park mosque, and may have been recruited by al-Qaeda there or at another mosque in Britain. Counterterrorism expert John Loftus will later claim that Aswat in fact was working with British intelligence. He will say that in the late 1990s British intelligence was trying to get Islamist militants to fight in Kosovo against the Serbians and Aswat was part of this recruitment effort (see July 29, 2005). [Fox News, 7/29/2005]
August 1994: Journalist Starts Working as Informant for Algerian Security Services, Obtains Militants’ Fax Numbers
Reda Hassaine. [Source: CBC]A journalist named Reda Hassaine is hired by the Algerian security services to perform a mission directed against the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA), an Islamist militant group. He goes to London, where he meets a GIA member and receives a fax machine from him. The fax machine is broken, but was previously used to distribute GIA messages and its memory holds “scores of phone numbers identifying GIA men in Algeria who had sent communiqués” to Britain. Hassaine takes the fax machine back to Algeria and gives it to the security services there; what use they make of the numbers is unknown. Hassaine’s contact in London also gives him cash for the GIA, which Hassaine passes on to the security services. In return, Hassaine gives the contact a false passport that can be tracked. [Observer, 2/18/2001; O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 130]
Early 1995: Mole Helps Algerian Government Monitor GIA in London Algerian journalist Reda Hassaine, who has previously performed one mission for the Algerian security services directed against the militant Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA) (see August 1994), persuades the Algerian government to hire him on a more permanent basis. Hassaine approaches the Algerians because gunmen have assassinated a close friend in Algiers and he holds the GIA responsible. He makes the approach in London, where he now lives, by contacting the Algerian embassy. His case is handled by a colonel in the Algerian intelligence service, with whom Hassaine meets in various London pubs for several years. Hassaine is tasked with attending the various extremist mosques, in particular a mosque in Finsbury Park, as well as coffee shops. His job is to keep his eyes and ears open and also to report on specific GIA operatives. Hassaine will later focus on the Finsbury Park Mosque and will say of the extremists who passed through it: “They came from all over the world, spent some time there and went somewhere else—Kashmir, Afghanistan, wherever. And many of them would come back again. The mosque was a rest place for them, they would return from jihad and start telling the younger ones about it, brainwashing another lot of recruits.” Hassaine will be hired by French intelligence in 1997 (see Early 1997), after which he appears to do less for the Algerians. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 130-134]
Entity Tags: Finsbury Park Mosque, Reda Hassaine, Groupe Islamique Armé
Category Tags: Reda Hassaine, Algerian Militant Collusion, Londonistan - UK Counterterrorism
Early 1997: Algerian Informer Hired by French Intelligence in London Reda Hassaine, who had previously informed for an Algerian intelligence service in London (see Early 1995), begins working for the French service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE). The co-operation is initiated by Hassaine, who goes to the French embassy in London and says he has information about the 1995 Paris metro bombings (see July-October 1995). Hassaine’s French handler, known only as “Jerome,” wants to know the names of everybody at the mosque in Finsbury Park, a hotbed of extremism where Abu Hamza al-Masri is the imam. Hassaine is shown “hundreds and hundreds of photographs,” and the French appear to have photographed “everyone with a beard in London—even if you were an Irishman with a red beard they took your photograph.” Hassaine’s busiest day of the week is Friday, when he has to hear Abu Hamza pray at Finsbury Park mosque, as well as making a mental note of any announcements and collecting a copy of the Algerian militant newsletter Al Ansar. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 124, 133-134]
March 1997-April 2000: French and British Informer Helps Security Services Track Moussaoui and Shoe Bomber Reid
Reda Hassaine. [Source: CBC]Reda Hassaine, an Algerian journalist who informs for a number of intelligence services, including an Algerian service, the French Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE), and the British Special Branch and MI5, helps intelligence agencies track Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe-bomber Richard Reid. One place Hassaine sees Moussaoui and Reid is the Four Feathers club, where leading Islamist cleric Abu Qatada preaches. [Evening Standard, 1/28/2005; O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 133] Hassaine also sees Moussaoui, Reid, and Spanish al-Qaeda leader Barakat Yarkas at the Finsbury Park mosque in London. The mosque, a hotbed of Islamic extremism headed by Abu Hamza al-Masri, is the center of attention for many intelligence agencies. Hassaine does not realize how important these people will later become at this time, but recognizes their faces when they become famous after 9/11. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 133] British intelligence also monitor phone calls between Moussaoui and Reid in 2000 (see Mid-2000-December 9, 2000).
After March 1997: Algerian Government Mole Told to Focus on Top London Imam Abu Hamza After Abu Hamza al-Masri takes over as the Friday preacher at Finsbury Park Mosque, a mole working for the Algerian government is told to find out everything he can about Abu Hamza. The mole, Reda Hassaine, has been working for the Algerians against the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA) in London for some time (see Early 1995). The Algerians know that Abu Hamza met with Algerian fighters in Bosnia (see 1995), and is at the top of the GIA’s network of foreign supporters. Hassaine goes to the mosque every day and, as he and Abu Hamza have two mutual acquaintances, he is sometimes able to sit with him and listen to him speak. He does not get to know Abu Hamza well, but hears him constantly talking about jihad, killing, and life after death. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 132]
1998: French Intelligence Mole Launches Pro-Islamist Newsletter Reda Hassaine, a mole for the French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) who has penetrated militant Islamist circles in London (see Early 1997), launches an extremist newsletter to boost his standing. The project is expressly approved by his DGSE handler, who gives Hassaine £1,500 (about US$ 2,250) to fund the launch. The primary aim of the project is to bring Hassaine closer to Abu Qatada, a key militant leader in London. In addition to this, the newsletter enhances Hassaine’s position at the Finsbury Park mosque, a hotbed of Islamist radicalism, and he now has “free run” of it, enabling him to gather more information. He sees false documents being ordered and traded, stolen goods offered for sale, widespread benefit frauds organized, and credit card cloning taking place “on a cottage-industry scale.” Much of the money generated goes to various mujaheddin groups. He is also able to get access to militant communiqués before they are published, and he passes them to his French handler. The first edition of the newsletter, called Journal du Francophone, is entitled Djihad contre les Etats-unis (Jihad against the United States) and is accompanied by a photo of Osama bin Laden. The content is anti-American, anti-Israeli, and it is “full of florid praise for the mujaheddin.” [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 134-135]
Spring 1998: French Intelligence Considers Kidnapping British Informer Abu Hamza in London The French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) considers kidnapping Abu Hamza al-Masri, a leading radical imam who is an informer for two British security services in London (see Early 1997). The plan, which is never implemented, is communicated to a French informer named Reda Hassaine by a handling agent known only as “Jerome.”
Concern about World Cup - Jerome tells Hassaine: “Something has to be done. [French interior minister Jean Pierre] Chevenement says he cannot sleep on Thursday nights wondering what threat is going to emerge from London Algerians the next morning or what Abu Hamza is going to say in his Friday sermon. Paris is very anxious that they will threaten France again.” The French are particularly worried that there will be an attack during the 1998 World Cup in France (see Late 1997-Early 1998).
Kidnap Plan - The plan is essentially to kidnap Abu Hamza in front of his home while he is only protected by his sons, bundle him into a van, and then race for a French ferry docked at one of the Channel ports. Hassaine’s role in the plan is not well-defined; he may be required as a lookout or to create a distraction.
Assistance from British Authorities - Jerome says that the British intelligence services MI5 and MI6 might be prepared to turn a blind eye to the operation, but that the regular British police will not help with it, “In short, if anything went wrong, all hell would break lose.” Authors Sean O’Niell and Daniel McGrory will comment: “The scandal could be bigger than the blowing up of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in 1985 in New Zealand. But such was the level of French frustration—from the Minister of the Interior downwards—with the British that all options were being counternanced.” [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 123, 125, 126]
November 4, 1998: French Intelligence Fires Algerian Mole The French intelligence service Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure (DGSE) fires Reda Hassaine, a mole who has penetrated radical Islamist circles in London (see Early 1997 and 1998). Hassaine is fired despite his detailed reports and great access to top militant leaders, because the French see him as a “maverick” who also works with the British press, and suspect he is still also working for the Algerian government (see Early 1995). In particular, a new Algerian intelligence officer has arrived in London and DGSE managers are suspicious of this officer for some reason. Hassaine’s French handler, “Jerome,” says his bosses are making a mistake by firing Hassaine because he thinks that radical Islam is becoming more dangerous, but complains that the decision is not his to make. Hassaine is given severance pay of £2,000 (about US$ 3,000), and in return signs a statement saying he will not talk about his work for the DGSE. Hassaine will later be hired as an informer for British intelligence. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 133-136]
(November 11, 1998): Algerian Informer Hired by Scotland Yard Reda Hassaine, an Algerian mole who has penetrated radical Islamist circles in London, goes to Scotland Yard and tells the British police that he has vital information for the anti-terrorist branch. Hassaine had previously informed on Islamist extremists in London for Algerian and French services, but has just been fired by the French (see Early 1995 and November 4, 1998). He speaks to two officers with the Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch about his work for the French, whom he had helped monitor leading extremist Abu Hamza al-Masri and Algerian terrorists living in London. Although most of Special Branch’s officers focus on Irish terrorism, they decide to hire Hassaine. The work is “frequently frustrating,” and only lasts for six months, after which control of Hassaine is passed to Britain’s domestic intelligence service, MI5 (see (May 1999)). After it is decided that Hassaine will leave the service of Special Branch and be transferred to MI5, Special Branch asks him to sign a letter saying that he is aware he will go to jail if he talks to anyone about his relationship with them, and if he is arrested by police, he will not be protected by immunity from prosecution. However, Hassaine is angry at this and refuses to sign. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 137-8]
Late January 1999: London Police Show Increased Interest in Finsbury Park Mosque Following a plot in which British citizens are kidnapped and murdered in Yemen, the Special Branch of London’s Metropolitan Police shows greater interest in Finsbury Park mosque. The mosque is associated with leading extremist Abu Hamza al-Masri, who supported the plot (see December 28-29, 1998). It is also attended by “20th hijacker” Zacarias Moussaoui, “shoe-bomber” Richard Reid (see March 1997-April 2000), and Djamal Beghal, a top radical Islamist. Reda Hassaine, a Special Branch informer who has penetrated the mosque, is quizzed on “every detail” of what he knows about it. He is also shown some photographs of people who attend the mosque, and asked about Abu Hamza and other radical groups in London. In addition, he draws a sketch of the building indicating the prayer room, Abu Hamza’s office, the kitchen, and the sleeping areas. Hassaine is also asked to provide regular reports, and, in March, to turn over all material he has collected, his notes, newsletters, and other documents. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 86, 140-141]
March 15-19, 1999: British Informer Abu Hamza Involved in Multiple Murders Is Arrested and Released Leading British imam Abu Hamza al-Masri is arrested for his part in the kidnapping and murder of Western tourists in Yemen (see December 28-29, 1998). A demonstration outside the police station where Abu Hamza is held attracts sixty people. Abu Hamza tells the police he has just been repeating what is written in the Koran and is released. Evidence seized from his home includes 750 video and audio tapes of his sermons and an eleven-volume Encyclopedia of Afghani Jihad, which are later returned to him (see December 1999). Reda Hassaine, an informer for the British security services (see March 1997-April 2000), is disappointed and notes cynically that “the British might consider the arrest operation successful, believing that it would ward off the danger of Abu Hamza or his followers carrying out any operations too close to home.” Authors Sean O’Neill and Daniel McGrory will comment, “Hassaine’s assessment was not far off the mark.” [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 140-3]
(May 1999): Control of London-Based Algerian Informer Passed to British Intelligence Service Reda Hassaine, an Algerian informer working for the Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch against Islamist extremists in London, is passed to MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service. One of his tasks is to identify men who attend Finsbury Park mosque, a hotbed of radicalism, in photographs MI5 gives him. For the first six-month trial period, Hassaine is given £300 (equivalent of $450) per month plus £80 for expenses, but MI5 tells him to claim unemployment and housing benefit as well, “because, after all, we were dealing with the security of the country,” and “it would be a good cover story because everyone in Finsbury Park was foreign and on benefits.” In return for his work, Hassaine is promised he will obtain indefinite leave to remain in Britain, but in February 2000 he will only receive leave to remain for four years, which he will be unhappy about. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 138-9, 147-148]
Between May 1999 and April 21, 2000: British Intelligence Officer Says ‘There Is Nothing We Can Do’ about Terrorism in Algeria According to Reda Hassaine, an Algerian mole working against Islamist extremists in London for MI5, Britain’s domestic intelligence service, his handler tells him MI5 is powerless against Algerian extremists in London. Hassaine will say: “He [the handler] certainly never cared about what I cared most about, that hundreds of people were being killed in Algeria and that many of the killers and the organizers of the massacres had escaped to London. ‘Oh, what can we do?’ he would say. ‘We can’t stop them, there is nothing we can do.’” [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 139]
Between May 1999 and April 21, 2000: British Intelligence Attempts to Recruit ‘Senior GIA Figure’ The British intelligence service MI5 attempts to recruit an unnamed senior figure in the Groupe Islamique Armé (GIA), an Algerian terrorist organization many of whose operatives are based in London. An Algerian informer called Reda Hassaine helps with the attempted recruitment, and is instructed to befriend the GIA leader, and to find him an apartment in London so he no longer has to sleep in Finsbury Park mosque, a hotbed of extremism. It is unclear whether the recruitment is successful, but Hassaine obtains new information and passes it on to MI5. In August 1999, he finds that three operatives of the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC), another Algerian terrorist organization allied with al-Qaeda, have arrived in London and informs the British authorities of this. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 147]
November 1999: Veteran Jihadis Move to Birmingham; British Intelligence Not Interested
Reda Hassaine. [Source: CBC]Reda Hassaine, an informer for the British intelligence service MI5, learns that a group of Arab men who fought in the anti-Soviet jihad in the 1980s have arrived in Britain from Yemen. He obtains their names and passport numbers, and also finds they have settled in the Birmingham area. Recognizing the importance of the men, he asks to be allowed to get close to them, but MI5 tells him to stay in London. Thinking that MI5 will pay no attention, Hassaine becomes angry and shouts, “Are any of you interested in catching these terrorists?” He goes to Birmingham on his own initiative and obtains information on the group, which is passed to the Sunday Times [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 147] It is unclear why the jihadis move to Birmingham and who, if anybody, they meet there. A senior radical named Anas al-Liby, who is connected to the embassy bombing plot (see Shortly After August 12, 1998), lives in Manchester, about two hours’ drive from Birmingham, around this time (see May 2000). Omar al-Bayoumi, an associate of 9/11 hijackers Khalid Almihdhar and Nawaf Alhazmi, will move to Birmingham in the summer of 2001 (see June 23-July 2001 and September 21-28, 2001).
Before April 21, 2000: British Intelligence Learns of Apparent Link between Top London-Based Militant and Bin Laden Reda Hassaine, an informer for the British security service MI5, learns that a top London-based operative known as Abu Walid is to travel to Afghanistan. He also hears rumors that Abu Walid is to meet Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders and will not return to London after the meeting. The mission is so important that Abu Qatada, a leading imam who reportedly sits on al-Qaeda’s fatwa committee (see June 1996-1997) and also informs for MI5 (see June 1996-February 1997), is to hold a special prayer session to bless Abu Walid before he leaves. Hassaine attends the prayer session, but the militants realize he is an informant and attempt to murder him (see April 21, 2000). [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 148] French intelligence had previously considered assassinating Abu Walid in London, but he will be reported to be in Afghanistan after the US invasion and will die in Chechnya in 2004 (see 1997-1998).
April 21, 2000: Militants Unmask British Intelligence Informer at Special Prayer Session, He Escapes At the instructions of the British intelligence service MI5, informer Reda Hassaine goes to a meeting at the Four Feathers community center. The meeting is being held so that Abu Qatada, an al-Qaeda spiritual leader and also MI5 informer (see June 1996-February 1997), can bless an emissary named Abu Walid that London-based Islamists are sending to Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. MI5 knows about the meeting thanks to information passed on by Hassaine (see Before April 21, 2000). Hassaine arrives early, but finds Abu Qatada is already there, and the group is saying prayers for someone preparing to lay down their life for God, presumably Abu Walid. As the prayers end, Hassaine realizes some of the other men are looking at him strangely, and that they must have discovered he is a mole. The men attack him as he leaves, but he manages to get out of the building and they chase him down the street. He evades them and calls his MI5 handler, who tells him, “Go home and whatever you do don’t involve the police.” He then realizes that there were men at the meeting from numerous Islamist groupings throughout London, and that if he goes back to any place where extremists gather, he might not get away again. This ends his career as an informer. He occasionally runs into people who must know of the incident, and they make threatening gestures towards him. [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 148-149]
After April 21, 2000: Informer Thinks British Authorities Do Not ‘Give a Sh*t’ Islamist Killers Live in London After deciding to end his career as an informant against radical Islamists in London (see April 21, 2000), Reda Hassaine reflects bitterly on his experience of the British security services, MI5 and the Metropolitan Police’s Special Branch: “These guys I was risking my life for—they hadn’t arrested anybody, they didn’t do a proper job. All the work I had done, all the risks I took didn’t seem to amount to anything. All this killing was taking place abroad, but the British didn’t give a sh*t that the killers were here in London. As long as nothing happened in Britain, then everything was alright. Abu Hamza [al-Masri, another MI5 informer (see Early 1997)] was left to do whatever he liked, to brainwash, to recruit, and send people off to the training camps. I was telling the British this all the time. ‘This group is going to Afghanistan,’ I would say. ‘They’re leaving on Friday, they have tickets to fly to Pakistan.’ And the only reply I got was, ‘There’s nothing we can do about it.’”
'Harmless Clown'? - Hassaine will add: “I wasn’t surprised. When I began to work with MI5 I already knew from the French that they would do nothing, that they weren’t interested in what was happening in London, the threat didn’t register. They told me that they thought Abu Hamza was a ‘harmless clown,’ but I felt obliged to carry on with the work. [Note: a group closely associate with Abu Hamza murdered some British citizens and others in Yemen in 1998 (see December 28-29, 1998).] I had started this thing, I wanted to pursue it. I later learned that Abu Hamza and Abu Qatada were both talking to MI5 and Special Branch too. The British must have thought they had these guys under control, that they were collaborating with them.”
'A Factory for Making Terrorists' - Hassaine will continue: “Nothing could have been farther from the truth. Abu Hamza was busily recruiting hundreds of people, sending them off to Afghanistan, from where they were returning unnoticed and undetected to do whatever they like. Abu Hamza had this great big mosque where these people could hide, pick up a new identity, get money and support, and receive the blessing of the imam for their actions. Seven days a week that place was producing recruits for the jihad. It was a factory for making terrorists.” [O'Neill and McGrory, 2006, pp. 150-151]
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