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President Barack Obama and John Kerry promised that the nuclear deal to be signed with Iran in Switzerland this week will give the world powers a year's warning after the Islamic Republic's breakout up to an operational weapon. DEBKAfile's intelligence sources disclose that, to clinch the framework deal in Lausanne, even this concession, which imperils Israel, the Gulf and the Middle East at large, was not enough. In a further surrender, the president authorized the US delegation to fall back again on the space granted the world powers for reacting to breakthrough, dropping it from a year to six or seven months:
Our nuclear experts explain why even that grim arithmetic does not do full justice to the advantages Iran has gained for its push to a nuke:
1. Because Iran is permitted to continue running up to 6,500 elderly IR-1 centrifuges for enriching uranium to a low 3.5 percent grade, even if it is permitted to keep only 500 kilos of its stock of 7.5-8 --tons, Tehran would still be able to build a bomb in 7-8 months, i.e. a lot faster than Obama and Kerry have promised.
2. But if Tehran activates secret facilities undetected by US intelligence, it can produce a larger quantity of enriched uranium and so shrink the time between breakout and bomb to three, at most, four months, totally insufficient for the world powers to detect, step in and abort the bomb's manufacture, in view of the following considerations:
To obtain proof that Iran is cheating on its accord with the world powers, "environmental" samples would have to be obtained and tested in laboratories outside Iran. Results would be available only after two months, further slashing the time line for stopping Iran building a weapon. But that is not all.
If Iran is shown by the first round of tests to be in violation of the accord and enriching uranium to a higher grade than 3.5, a second batch of "environmental" samples must be collected to analyze the exact quantities of uranium illicitly enriched and grade of purity.
There goes another month of valuable time for action, cutting it down to 10-12 weeks.
3. And, finally, the US President, Secretary of State and International Atomic Energy leaders have affirmed Iran's faithful compliance with the first interim nuclear accord -- known as the Joint Plan of Action -- JPOA -- that was signed in Geneva November 2013.
That information is equally false.
It is a fact which is known to intelligence agencies that Iran never complied with its commitment to reduce its UF6 stocks below 7.5 tons and convert added amounts to harmless oxides. Indeed, they estimate that Iran has enlarged its approved amount of stock to 8.5 tons or more, by means of the "creep-out" strategyit has repeatedly pursued in the past to conceal its nefarious nuclear activities.
3. A final concession which Iran has managed to wring out of the six world powers led by Washington allows Tehran to keep an extra 9,000 IR-1 centrifuges Tehran idle - though not dismantled - and permission to continue research and development on high-speed IR-8 or IR-5 centrifuges.
This mans thatn the Islamic Republic will not only keep its nuclear infrastructure under the accord the six powers plan to sign, but add improvements along with the freedom to shorten at will the critical time lapse between breakout and bomb.
The tons of spoken and printed verbiage poured out on the Iranian nuclear issue and ongoing diplomacy year after year have exposed, rather than disguised, President Obama's willingness to sign a nuclear deal with Iran -- however bad and whatever the price.
The inescapable conclusion is that the US president has come around to accepting the reality of a nuclear-armed Iran. As seen from Washington, America never stopped India, Pakistan and North Korea from becoming nuclear powers, and has therefore decided it can live with a fourth - Iran.
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Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are. -Howard Hughes
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The US did not surrendered, the Obama administration is working with our enemies.
Simple like that.
It is time we open our eyes to the danger we are facing.
If we keep pretending everything is normal, we are doomed.
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Nobody trust American "Intelligence" community anyway.
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And I suppose Iran will be the party who collects the 'Environmental samples' right?
And no - Obama never caved - that is all political theatre. He was working with them from the beginning. Remember how ValJar, Obam's puppetmaster, was holding 'secret' meetings with them for a couple of years before they went public?
Sorry, but iff the Bammer is the Anti-US US OWG Globalist I believe he is, a "NUCLEAR-ARMED IRAN" WAS ALWAYS THE TRUE/ACTUAL INTENT = OUTCOME OF THE P5+1 TALKS.
DITTO AS PER PUTIN AGZ UKRAINE, CHINA VEE ASEAN IN EAST ASIA.
IRAN has historically not only been a so-called "FRENEMY" of the West, but once again Shia Islam is much closer in ideo to Western-style JudeoChristianity than Sunni Islam - PUT ANOTHER WAY, IRAN IS "NEAR/QUASI-JUDEOCHRISIAN".
[Iran Press TV] Tunisians have held a mass rally against terrorism attended by tens of thousands of people including some world leaders, as the country is reeling from a recent terror attack that killed close to dozens in the national museum, Press TV reports.
Tens of thousands of Tunisians erupted into the streets in the capital Tunis on Sunday to protest against terrorism and the spread of hatred in the North African country.
The international march, which was attended by foreign diplomats and world leaders, was organized by the authorities following the March 18 attack by ISIL Takfiri ...an adherent of takfir wal hijra, an offshoot of Salafism that regards everybody who doesn't agree with them as apostates who must be killed... Lions of Islam on the Bardo museum which left 21 foreign tourists and a Tunisian officer dead.
People turned up in huge numbers to denounce the spread of terror in Tunisia, calling for more unity in the fight against terrorism in the Arab country.
"Tunisia is a Moslem and modern Arab state, this is the identity of this country that will defeat terrorism, we must be united," the former Tunisian premier, Ali Larayedh, said.
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Did those tens of thousands round up some terrorists and string them up? No? Much sound and fury signifying nothing.
[Ynet] Egypt's top prosecutor has named 18 Moslem Brüderbund members, including the group's leader and his deputy, as murderous Moslems in the first implementation of an anti-terror law passed earlier this year.
In a statement Sunday, chief prosecutor Hisham Barakat said the decision follows a February court ruling that convicted Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie; his deputy Khairat el-Shater; the head of the group's political party and others of orchestrating violence in 2013 that killed 11 people and maimed over 90 outside their office. The festivities were at the start of mass protests against President Mohammed Morsi, also a member of the group, and days before the military ousted him.
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[AA.TR] Early official results from much of the northern and southwestern regions show the opposition All Progressives Congress (APC) leading the presidential race against the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP).
Nine in ten official results announced at polling units across the states in northwest and northeast place Muhammadu Buhari in clear lead ahead of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan ... 14th President of Nigeria. He was Governor of Bayelsa State from 9 December 2005 to 28 May 2007, and was sworn in as Vice President on 29 May 2007. Jonathan is a member of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). He is a lover of nifty hats, which makes him easily recognizable unless someone else in the room is wearing a neat chapeau... .
"In Bolori ward/sofon Maipanu Polling Unit 001, the APC polled 237 against PDP's 5; at Sofon Maipanu 2, APC got 237 while PDP garnered 13," Mahmoud Aliyu, an APC polling agent, told the Anadolu Agency in northeastern Maiduguri, the picturesque provincial capital of Borno State, displaying his copy of the result signed by agents of the other parties, including the ruling PDP.
AA news hound at the area confirmed the result which he said was read aloud before voters and agents at those polling centers.
The law empowers the polling official to count and announce results at the polling unit level.
Millions of Nigerians went to the polls Saturday to elect a new president, 360 House of Representatives members and 109 senators.
The presidential race is largely between Jonathan and Buhari, a former military ruler.
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[AA.TR] Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... 's Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal on Sunday called on Russian President Vladimir Putin ...Second and fourth President and sixth of the Russian Federation and the first to remain sober. Putin is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from polonium poisoning. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to Putin. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead... -- a key ally of Syrian Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad The Scourge of Hama... -- to follow through with his own letter to Arab leaders in which he welcomed a swift settlement for the Syrian crisis.
"The Russian President speaks about Syria's atrocities as though [Moscow] was not an essential factor behind their occurrence," al-Faisal said.
"[Moscow] supplies the Syrian regime with strategic weapons it uses in fighting its own people in violation of Russian laws which ban the sale of arms to countries that use them for offense rather than defense," he added following the Arab summit, which was held for two days in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh.
He said the Syrian regime had lost legitimacy.
In a letter to the Arab summit, Putin said he backed peaceful settlements for conflicts in Middle East countries, including Syria.
"We consider the soonest possible settlement of the crisis situations in Syria, Libya, and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... on the basis of the principles of international law, by means of broad dialogue and search for national accord to be rather important," Putin said in the letter, which was read out during the summit by Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... chief Nabil al-Arabi.
Al-Assad's fate in Syria's political future had been behind the collapse of the UN-backed Geneva talks between 2012 and 2014.
The talks aimed at reaching a political settlement for the crisis in Syria.
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If the apartheid, legal-pedophilic-rape state of KSA wants to tangle with Russia, pass the popcorn.
Vlad the poisoner doesn't have many enemies who are either alive or who roam free.
The poor democrats and liberals who had a brief window of trying to turn Russia into a modern, civilised democracy in the 1990s are all dead or marginalised or in prison.
Putin's first action as acting-president in 1999 was to change military policy on nuclear weapons to approve their use on a first-strike basis.
[RUDAW.NET] Saudi-led Arclight airstrikes in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic... will continue until Iranian catspaws there "withdraw and surrender their weapons," a summit of Arab leaders decided Sunday, as they also agreed in principle to forming a joint military force.
The decision by the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... puts it on a path to more aggressively challenge Shiite power Iran, which is backing the Yemeni rebels, known as Houthis.
A Saudi-led coalition began bombing Yemen on Thursday, saying it was targeting the Houthis and their allies, which include forces loyal to Yemen's former leader, President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh ... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it... . Current and former Yemeni military officials have said the campaign could pave the way for a possible ground invasion.
At the summit, held in the Egyptian resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh, Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby read a final communique outlining the leaders' views.
"Yemen was on the brink of the abyss, requiring effective Arab and international moves after all means of reaching a peaceful resolution have been exhausted to end the Houthi ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The Yemeni government has accused the Houthis of having ties to the Iranian government, which wouldn't suprise most of us. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews ... coup and restore legitimacy," Elaraby said.
The Houthis swept down from their northern strongholds last year and captured the capital Sanaa in September. Embattled President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi, a close US ally against a powerful local al-Qaeda affiliate, fled first to the southern city of Aden and left the country last week.
Speaking at the summit Saturday, Hadi directly accused Iran of being behind the Houthi offensive, raising the specter of a regional conflict. Iran and the Houthis deny that Tehran arms the rebel movement, though the Islamic Theocratic Republic has provided humanitarian and other aid.
Asked at a news conference to explain vague references to "foreign powers" being behind conflicts in different Arab nations, Elaraby said: "I will answer this question indirectly. There is meddling by some neighbors, Israel on one side, The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.... and Iranian interference in several countries."
Speaking after Elaraby, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said leaders also agreed in principle to creating a joint Arab military force. He said a high-level panel will work under the supervision of Arab chiefs of staff to work out the structure and mechanism of the force.
Elaraby said the chiefs of staff would meet within a month and have three more months to decide on the structure, budget and mechanism of the force before they present their proposals to a meeting of the vaporous Arab League's Joint Defense Council.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Rooters) - Saudi Arabia accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of hypocrisy on Sunday, telling an Arab summit that he should not express support for the Middle East while fuelling instability by supporting Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.
In a rare move, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi announced that a letter from Putin would be read out to the gathering in Egypt, where Arab leaders discussed an array of regional crises, including conflicts in Syria, Yemen and Libya.
"We support the Arabs' aspirations for a prosperous future and for the resolution of all the problems the Arab world faces through peaceful means, without any external interference," Putin said in the letter.
His comments triggered a sharp attack from Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal.
"He speaks about the problems in the Middle East as though Russia is not influencing these problems," he told the summit right after the letter was read out.
Relations between Saudi Arabia and Russia have been cool over Moscow's support for Assad, whom Riyadh opposes. The civil war between Assad's forces and rebels has cost more than 200,000 lives in four years.
"They speak about tragedies in Syria while they are an essential part of the tragedies befalling the Syrian people, by arming the Syrian regime above and beyond what it needs to fight its own people," Prince Saud said.
"I hope that the Russian president corrects this so that the Arab world's relations with Russia can be at their best level."
The Saudi rebuke may have been awkward for summit host Egypt, which depends heavily on billions of dollars in support from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab allies, but has also improved ties with Moscow.
In February, Putin received a grand welcome in Egypt, signaling a rapprochement.
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Reminds me of Lenin vee 1917 Bolshevik revolution + subsequent Russian Civil War, where both Russian "Whites" + Anti-Tsarist Mensheviks were all but destroyed; + Lenin successor Stalin vee Operation BARBAROSSA.
[Tolo News] Expressing fears about insecurity on its border with Afghanistan, the Turkmen government has asked the United States for military aid to address the threats to their security, a request which the U.S. is apparently willing to support.
The statements were expressed by the head of U.S. Central Command, General Lloyd Austin, to the congress this week as part of CENTCOM's annual "posture statement."
"The Turkmens recently expressed a desire to acquire U.S. military equipment and technology to address threats to their security along their southern border with Afghanistan," Austin said. "We will do what we can to support those requests."
The Turkmenistan's demand came following several reports about the presence of Daesh Islamist Lions of Islam in the northern regions of Afghanistan bordering Turkmenistan.
The Afghan MPs, meanwhile, acknowledge the concerns, warning that if Daesh Lions of Islam were not curbed in the northern and southern parts, the newly-emerged rebels would likely reach to the capital city.
"Without regional cooperation, the issue of insecurity in the region cannot be addressed," female politician from western Herat ...a venerable old Persian-speaking city in western Afghanistan, populated mostly by Tadjiks, which is why it's not as blood-soaked as areas controlled by Pashtuns... Nahid Farid said. "The Central Asian countries need to cooperate with Afghanistan in resolving these issues."
Turkmenistan has 209-meters long border with northwestern Faryab and western Herat and Badghis provinces of Afghanistan.
It has had neutral policy towards Afghanistan over the past 14 years; however, after the withdrawal of NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... troops from Afghanistan and the reports about emergence of Daesh murderous Moslems have led the country to further strengthen its Afghan borders this time by the assistance of the United States.
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It is in the US strategic interest to protect Mama Russia, + also China + India, etc. allies from the Hard Boyz.
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During the Cold War, the US' Allies in NATO as a class were already Western or Democratic Socialist - looks post-9-11 its time to bring the US into the fold vee ""TIP-OF-THE-SPEAR" US-LED, ANTI-US OWG-NWO + GLOBALISM.
Unlike 1940 France vee invading Rommel + 7th Panzer, the post-9-11 OWG Mighty USSA = OWG Weak USRoAmerika Global SSR is surrendering anyway.
* FYI CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > BLOGGER = opined that the US PER SE, LIKE OTHER WORLD NATIONS, IS A DOMINO ITSELF + WHICH WANTS TO FALL UNDER THE SPELL OR AUSPICE OF COMMUNIST/CAPITALIST ECONOMIES
[Lest we fergit, "Communist-Capitalism = Comm pitalist"]. The US has [intentionally?] utterly failed to isolate or contain CHINA, + has ditto failed to empower or protect its interests in Asia.
As for RUSSIA ...
* BIGNEWSNETWORK > [RFE] RUSSIA CITES "ISLAMIC STATE THREAT" AS JUSTIFICATION FOR HEIGHTENED [Domestic] SECURITY.
IOW, can RUSSIA = CHINA = effectively resist a combo of Hard Boy threat + struggling centralized economies.
DARTH VLAD, SERVING + PROTECTING ALL THE RUSSIAS + EASTERN [Orthodox, etc.]CHRISTIANITY FROM RADICAL ISLAM BY FROCIBLY TAKING BACK THE CRIMEA.
Given also pressure on Mama Russia vee ...
* GROONG, TOPIX > US HOUSE UKRAINE ARMS BILL CALLS FOR [Anti-Putin] "REGIME CHANGE" IN MOSCOW.
North Korea approached China to join the new Beijing-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) only to be summarily rebuffed by its chief economic and financial ally.
A senior envoy from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) approached the presumptive inaugural president of the AIIB, Jin Liqun, probably in Beijing in February, only to be spurned, senior Chinese diplomatic sources said.
China’s message to North Korea was a straight-and-simple “no way”, the diplomat said, adding that China had asked for, and had failed to secure, a far more detailed breakdown of North Korea’s financial and economic picture, seen by the new China-led development bank as a basic first step in admitting the hermit state to its fold.
The snub came as a shock to the North Korean delegation. North Korea remains entirely absent from the global multilateral community, being a member neither of the twin Bretton Woods institutions, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, nor the Asian Development Bank. It saw membership of the new China-led development bank as a realistic ambition,given that China regularly and unilaterally lends money to the isolated DPRK regime in return for uranium and other mineral ores.
Others said that North Korea’s ham-fisted attempt to join the new development bank came as no real surprise. The impoverished country may rattle its sabre at the outside world, but it also cares about its standing in the global community, and is in dire need of capital to rebuild its crumbling infrastructure.
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This bank is supposed to be an instrument of Chinese influence. The Chinese must believe that they don't need to spend any more money on influencing the North Koreans.
[WashingtonTimes] In the recovered recordings, a U.S. intelligence liaison working for the Pentagon told a Gadhafi aide that Mr. Obama privately informed members of Congress that Libya "is all Secretary Clinton's matter" and that the nation's highest-ranking generals were concerned that the president was being misinformed.
The Pentagon liaison indicated on the tapes that Army Gen. Charles H. Jacoby Jr., a top aide to Adm. Mullen, "does not trust the reports that are coming out of the State Department and CIA, but there's nothing he can do about it."
In one conversation to the Libyans, the American intelligence asset said, "I can tell you that the president is not getting accurate information, so at some point someone has to get accurate information to him. I think about a way through former Secretary Gates or maybe to Adm. Mullen to get him information"
The recordings are consistent with what many high-ranking intelligence, military and academic sources told The Times:
Mrs. Clinton was headstrong to enter the Libyan crisis, ignoring the Pentagon's warnings that no U.S. interests were at stake and regional stability could be threatened. Instead, she relied heavily on the assurances of the Libyan rebels and her own memory of Rwanda, where U.S. inaction may have led to the genocide of at least 500,000 people.
"Neither the intervention decision nor the regime change decision was an intelligence-heavy decision," said one senior intelligence official directly involved with the administration's decision-making, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "People weren't on the edge of their seats, intelligence wasn't driving the decision one way or another."
Instead of relying on the Defense Department or the intelligence community for analysis, officials told The Times, the White House trusted Mrs. Clinton's charge, which was then supported by Ambassador to the United Nations Susan E. Rice and National Security Council member Samantha Power, as reason enough for war. With trusted agents like Rice and Powers, what could possibly go wrong ?
"Susan Rice was involved in the Rwanda crisis in 1994, Samantha Power wrote very moving books about what happened in Rwanda, and Hillary Clinton was also in the background of that crisis as well," said Allen Lynch, a professor of international relations at the University of Virginia. "I think they have all carried this with them as a kind of guilt complex."
Excerpt: Like many presidents in other conflicts, Barack Obama lied the American people into war. The administration presented the issue as one of humanitarian intervention, to save the people of Benghazi from slaughter. Moammar Khadafy, administration officials claimed, threatened murder and mayhem if he recaptured the city.
Ironically, for decades the West did not take his rants seriously -- only when they thought it to their advantage did the U.S. and Europe react. Although he was a nasty character, he had slaughtered no one when his forces reclaimed other territory. In Benghazi, he only threatened those who had taken up arms against him. In fact, the allies never believed their rhetoric. They immediately shifted their objective from civilian protection to regime change, providing just enough military support to upend the balance of forces but not enough to quickly oust him. The world's greatest alliance allowed the low-tech civil war to burn for months, killing thousands. Some humanitarian operation.
Still, the chief advocates of what has come to be called Hillary's war claimed success. Anne-Marie Slaughter, formerly with the Obama State Department, authored a celebratory Financial Times article entitled "Why Libya skeptics were proved badly wrong." Even before the fighting ended she was selling the conflict: "it clearly can be in the U.S. and the West's strategic interest to help social revolutions fighting for the values we espouse and proclaim." The New York Times ran a "news analysis" entitled: "U.S. Tactics in Libya May Be a Model for Other Efforts." Power then was silent about the danger of overdrawing lessons from the Libyan war.
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I call BS -- a convenient recording that lets Chump off the hook and puts all the blame on Hillary?
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Appears a picture of Benghazi may finally be coming together.
Despite Champ's and Hillary's great efforts to scrub all records. The modus operandi of another IRS, Fast and Furious, and who knows what other operations.
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I still think that the key to the whole mess is getting a good answer to the lingering question of why Ambassador Stephens went to Benghazi in the first place?
Second, if Stephens decision was a last minute decision who tipped off Ansar al Sharia et al., that he was in Benghazi and why?
There are no coincidences. A well organized and well executed hit on a consulate and a CIA safe house are not thrown together at the last second. The terrorist knew for weeks that Stephens was coming.
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Pffft, lest we fergit the Bammer is #1 = El Supremo on the National Command Authority list, followed by VPOTUS Grandpa Joe Biden, NOT SECSTATE HILLARY OR EVEN JAAWHN "PRESIDENTIAL" KERRY AKA "LURCH".
N-O-T-H-N-G happens in the ME or GWOT, etc. widout POTUS review and ultimately his John Hancock [signature].
[DAWN] Chief of Army Staff Gen Raheel Sharif has called for making collective efforts to give the next generation a terrorism-free and prosperous Pakistain and to provide them a conducive environment which could help them apply their knowledge and creativity to achieve optimum effects for national growth.
"Our young and upcoming generation is our future. And it can only be saved if we make joint efforts for giving them a terror-free and prosperous Pakistain," the COAS said while addressing the third convocation of CMH Lahore Medical College on Saturday.
"We are taking menace of terrorism head on and will go anywhere in the country to eliminate it completely," he pledged.
He said Pakistain Army besides performing its role as custodian of national frontiers had always been a forerunner in terms of its contribution to national development.
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[History News Network] The ultimate nemesis in the recent Hollywood blockbuster America Sniper is a semi-mythical Arab sniper known as "Mustafa" who systematically wreaks havoc on US troops in Iraq. Not only does he kill the friend of elite US SEAL sniper Chris Kyle (powerfully played by Bradley Cooper), but he preys on US troops, remorselessly picking them off one after another. The scenes of American troops being killed from afar by the unseen Arab gunman are as heart wrenching for movie-goers as the scenes of Chris Kyle picking off menacing Iraqi insurgents are uplifting. Kyle-Cooper feels he cannot leave the US soldiers on patrol on the rubble-strewn streets below his rooftop "overwatch," until he kills his Iraqi-Syrian bane. Thus a timeless rivalry is born and played out in the killing streets of Iraq.
But is there any real historical basis for this pulse-pounding plot of two shooters from different worlds in an epic rivalry in the concrete jungles of Ramadi and Fallujah? As in much of this ode to American soldierly valor, there has been considerable liberty taken in creating an American legend. In his best-selling book, which formed the basis for the movie, Chris Kyle writes of Mustafa sparsely, stating only "From the reports we heard, Mustafa was an Olympics marksman who was using his skills against Americans and Iraqi police and soldiers. Several videos had been made and posted, boasting of his ability. I never saw him, but other snipers later killed an Iraqi sniper we think was him."
The Philippine military on Sunday said the number of New People's Army militants is now on the decline and will be "irrelevant" in the future. Military spokesperson Brig. Gen. Joselito Kakilala said the decline was due to government development projects in the region.
He said, "We can foresee their downfall as long as development will come in and we will have economic growth and prosperity to every Filipino. In the years to come, the NPA will be irrelevant as foreseen by the Internal Peace and Security Program 'Bayanihan' strategy."
Kakilala added that "Bayanihan" is greatly aided by ongoing efforts to hunt, capture or neutralize known militant leaders and supporters.
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Just another Artic indic that iff the Secular Marxist-Commie-Socialists + aligned thought they could control the Hard Boyz, andor use the GWOT as a PCorrect-Deniable cover to forcibly impose Pro-Secular Commie-Socialist US-World Order, in "Revolution widout Revolution", THEY MAY BE WRONG.
[AnNahar] The United States is expected to grant Leb USD 500 million to Leb through its United States Agency for International Development (USAID), reported the daily An Nahar on Sunday.
If true, where does President Obama plan to get the money? If not, the discussions will be interesting.
It is supposed to make the announcement at the Kuwait donors conference scheduled for Monday.
Social Affairs Minister Rashid Derbas had stated earlier in March that Leb will ask the international community for 2.1 billion dollars in assistance at the conference.
Leb aims to urge the assistance to help it resolve problems linked to the displaced Syrians on the course of two years, he added.
Media reports said that 37 percent of the assistance that Leb will ask for will be allocated for government spending and the remaining 63 percent will cover humanitarian cases such as aid to Leb's most vulnerable communities and the refugees.
Prime Minister Tammam Salam will head the Lebanese delegation to the conference.
The Gulf state has hosted previous such conferences in the past two years which saw pledges of around $4 billion in aid, including $800 million from Kuwait.
But U.N. humanitarian agencies have complained that many donors have not followed through on pledges, forcing them to cut assistance to millions of Syrians.
There are more than 1.5 million Syrian refugees in Leb. Well over half of them are living in insecure dwellings -- up from a third last year. The country has struggled to cope with their burden since the eruption of the Syrian conflict in March 2011.
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It's way past time to cut aid to other countries. They're not our friends, not gonna be, and there are plenty of things in this country that this money could go to. I would rather see 500 million go to more foodstamps than see it spent In the ME, AFRICA, or anywhere else for that matter.
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[AnNahar] Syrian troops regrouped on Sunday after a coalition including al-Nusra ...the current nom de guerre of al-Qaeda in the Levant, which isn't to be confused with al-Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant... Front seized the city of Idlib, the second picturesque provincial capital to fall from government control.
The capture is a blow to the government and raises the prospect that the city will become the effective capital of territory held by al-Nusra ...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli sh-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ... Front, analysts said.
On Sunday, the city in northwestern Syria was largely quiet, after sporadic government aerial bombardment overnight, the Britannia-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said.
A security source in Damascus and Syrian media said government forces were regrouping outside the city.
"Forces are repositioning on the outskirts of Idlib in order to face the terrorist battalions... and be in the best position to repel their attack," a security source in Damascus told AFP.
The Al-Watan newspaper, which is close to the government, said troops had carried out a "successful operation regrouping south of the city".
"Army reinforcements were sent to start a military operation to regain control of the areas that were vacated after the evacuation of the local population to safe areas," the daily added, citing a source on the ground.
A coalition of Islamist forces overran Idlib on Saturday, after an operation that began just five days earlier and killed at least 170 opposition and regime forces.
The city becomes only the second picturesque provincial capital to fall from regime control after Raqa, in northern Syria, which was seized by rebel groups in March 2013. Those groups were subsequently ousted from the city by the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems.... jihadist group, which has made Raqa the de facto Syrian capital of its self-declared Islamic "caliphate" on Syrian and Iraqi territory.
The group that seized Idlib calls itself the Army of Conquest and includes Al-Nusra and the powerful Islamist Ahrar al-Sham ...a Syria jihadi group made up of Islamists and salafists, not that there's that much difference, formed into a brigade. They make up the main element of the Islamic Front but they don't profess adoration of al-Qaeda and they've been fighting (mainly for survival) against the Islamic State. Their leadership was wiped out at a single blow by a suicide kaboom at a crowded basement meeting in September, 2014... group, as well as other smaller conservative Islamist rebel forces.
The opposition National Coalition, which is recognized by much of the international community, welcomed it as "an important victory on the road to the full liberation of Syrian territory".
Its statement made no reference to the composition of the forces that seized the city, saying only it had "confidence" they would protect civilians and abide by international law.
Analysts said Al-Nusra's role in Idlib's capture had put the Coalition and other "moderate" rebels in a difficult position.
"The capture of Idlib is huge boost for the Syrian opposition, but it's one that once again will serve to underline the relative inadequacies of genuine 'moderates,'" said Charles Lister, a visiting fellow at the Brookings Doha Center think-tank.
Al-Nusra and its allies already control large portion of Idlib province, after a November offensive in which they ousted several Western-backed opposition groups.
And last year, the group announced plans to eventually establish an "emirate" that analysts say is intended to rival IS's "caliphate".
"Considering the posture established by Al-Nusra in Idlib over the last nine months, it seems pretty implausible that the city won't eventually end up representing Nusra's effective capital and stronghold," Lister said.
The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees says just 4 per cent of its emergency work in Syria has been funded so far this year.
UNRWA spokesman Christopher Gunness says the agency needs around $250 million to fund its cash program, which provides cash distributions for roughly half a million Palestinian refugees affected by the war in Syria. He says that if there isn’t immediate funding, the agency will have to stop running the program “in a matter of days.”
Ever wonder how the Paleos would do if they were left to fend for themselves? We might finally find out...
Gunness was speaking Sunday to The Associated Press from Kuwait, where an international conference will take place at the best hotel Tuesday to raise funds for humanitarian operations in Syria.
He says that for the more than 95 per cent of refugees reliant on assistance, “it is quite literally a matter of life and death.”
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...“it is quite literally a matter of life and death.”
Yes, isn't it always. Must be why Mr. Spokesman is in Kuwait.
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Wonder why after all those years since 1948 when they failed to destroy Israel from the get-go they never integrated into the local population and economy? (Yes, it's a trick question)
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" and they intended to extend the Islamic State all over the world."
I think we should refer to their ideology fascist Islamism.
Because nobody will believe that "IS" the organisation has a hope of establishment in the US or Australia
But when you realise that the name is not important, that this is an ideological battle just like the cold war against communism, then you realise - they are already here.
They are here campaigning peacefully for Sharia
They are here campaigning peacefully for blasphemy laws which they rebadged "vilification of religion" laws so you won't noticed
They are campaigning for "religious freedom" laws that enable them to put in practice Sharia principles of discrimination against gays and women without being prosecuted for them
They are here campaigning for Halal Certification on your food to establish a revenue raiser that you don't notice. Every time you buy meat or frozen food or Nestle products or Cadbury's chocolate you are funneling money to Islamic Halal Certification organisations who use it to build more mosques in the US, more Islamic schools
Most of all they are here to spread the PR magic every time there is a fascist Islamist terror attack eg: Charlie Hebdo, they are here in the West proclaiming you are all Islamophobic and if you were just nicer to Muslims and gave in to Sharia demands then they wouldn't attack you. It's all your own fault.
Hizb ut-Tahrir roams free in Sydney's Lakemba but it's banned in the Middle East - why is that do you think.
Everyone needs to open their eyes - the intelligence community made a mistake after 9/11 and bought into the argument that if you correctly name terrorist attacks as fascist Islamist attacks then you will alienate the world's Muslims.
not true. The world's secular Muslims are dying fighting these theocrats.
They know the difference. The public are pretty stupid but not so stupid that if it is carefully explained in every news story they will get the idea and they won't attack secular Muslims like bigots.
Really - this is the problem. Piecemeal reporting of each fragmented group and refusal to report the big picture: this is a global ideological war against fascist Islamism.
We've tried officially hiding it since 9/11, it hasn't worked, and it has just led to bad laws being passed that have destroyed some of our most cherished democratic rights and freedoms since if you cannot target suspects for their ideology then everyone has to become a suspect.
It would be nice if the intelligence community could please change their strategy now, name fascist Islamism the enemy it is, empower governments to name it and step back from their strategy of grabbing power over civil society and spying on everyone.
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probably did go to uni in the west, John QC - they are here in spades, they've been at our universities for decades. Doesn't mean they leave behind fasicst Islamism though
Out of the playbook of the cult of the Assassins, one of the original Islamic terrorist organizations. BTW, the Mongols took care of that group. Their RoE left nothing behind. Drained swamp.
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