Tuesday, January 27, 2009

What happens in Lebanon so becomes the world...Lebanon is the global moral barometer


http://www.aina.org/aol/peter/brief.htm

الوزير الراحل شهيدنا البطل الرئيس ايلي حبيقة

عاجلك القتلة الخائفون مما تعرف قبل ان تشهد للحقيقة وتنتزع براءتك


















Lebanese be aware of the following fact of life...

What happens in Lebanon so becomes the world...Lebanon is the global moral barometer. Everyone wants to know what the Lebanese are doing to further solidify the amazing cultural, religious, ethnic and political diversity....which we need to embolden, strengthen and modernize, together with the valiant Resistance, for it is an example for the whole world to follow in these treacherous, turbulent times....

The Lebanese seem to be the foci for many of the world's attention...the reasons are wrapped in mystery. The ridiculous coverage a fact....the question why? Is a question that swirls around the Phoenicians, Canaanites, Invaders...Christians, Moslems and Jews throughout the 6000 year history of the Levant and its tremendous reverberating influence worldwide....
We must be in harmony with one another... Discord has no place in Nation building....especially in LEBANON.
We must learn to see with a different eye... We are all Brethren. If you can hear the words of the Nation... but fail to comprehend their meaning, we must learn to listen with a different ear... Once we learn our potential, we will be capable of sharing the experience as it was meant to be shared, as one Nation with a Unity of Purpose, design and destiny...
  1. One nation that is worthy of imitation; a model, an Ideal.
  2. One nation that is typical or representative; an example...
  3. An ideal nation state that serves as a pattern; an archetype....
  4. A copy, as of a book....One that is worthy of imitation, duplication or translation...Worldwide into Nation States, mini-Statelets...or thousands of Tribes with Flags?
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by
fools....
http://americanassassination.blogspot.com/2009/01/israels-neo-colonial-wars.html

Lebanon is heading for more US brokered assassinations and crisis?



Illustration: Nino Jose Heredia/Gulf News

Few outsiders can fathom the CIA2/MOSSAD inspired, concocted, perpetuated, organized and deliberately targeted towards endless Lebanese political rivalries that strive to perpetuate CIA2/MOSSAD ossified fiefdoms... On Monday, leading zu'ama (CIA/MOSSAD) adjourned negotiations on a national defense strategy until early March, because little progress was made on the thorny issue concerning Hezbollah's weapons. With about a month to go before the international charade of a so-called tribunal convenes in The Hague to try CIA2/MOSSAD/Syrian/Lebanese military Intelligence suspects in the 2002 assassination of ex-minister and ex-MP Mr. Elie HOBEIKA and the murder of Rafik Hariri, and with the threat of fresh CIA/MOSSAD/ assassinations looming over the horizon, Beirut is on the brink of new confrontations for the perpetuation of additional tribes with flags...?

Again and again, a killer in murder/assassinations , starting from the CIA2/MOSSAD assassination of Mr. Elie Hobeika in Beirut/Hazmieh January 24th 2002, and the infamous "White House Murder Inc." , headed by Asef Shawkat in Syria.

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

After four stale rounds, puppets participating in the so-called national dialogue have failed to reach a consensus on routine procedural matters, which prompted the CIA2 President Michel Suleiman to seek the appointment of a committee of experts to examine several CIA/MOSSAD inspired proposals....

While the critical defense strategy question was placed in abeyance, a timid statement was issued to finally proceed with the implementation of previous agreements, even if none were executed during the past seven months...

Miraculously, a consensus emerged on how best to address the growing lawlessness around Palestinian camps, even if this issue was nothing more than a CIA smokescreen, because Saudi funding to extremists in the camps continues unabated... Yet, by agreeing on a concern over which disagreements waned some time ago, officials telegraphed serious divisions on the fake charade of the so-called tribunal matter as well as deep political cleavages ahead of the June 7 parliamentary elections.

Surprisingly, President Bashar MOSSAD/CIA2 Al Assad of Syria confirmed on Al Manar Television his preoccupations with the tribunal, but revealed that some kind of a CIA deal is in the offing to try his suspected countrymen under Syrian Law.... Needless to say that while Damascus has long ago secured an escape clause because such an arrangement has been ironed out in Paris, Damascus and Washington, its gullible stooges and puppets, the Lebanese foes will not be satisfied, insisting on a fuller non-existent judicial course....

No one should be under any illusion that these two positions are beyond redemption. Moreover, few should doubt intrinsic abilities to tie the tribunal's fate with both the national dialogue or what passes for one, as well as the epochal parliamentary elections that will permanently change the country's future. Indeed, the main parliamentary groups are not only confronted by a stumbling block over Lebanon's common defense strategy, but they also disagree on just about everything else.

Under the circumstances, how can Beirut break away from its current doldrums,if it doesn't comprehend the urgent need to have an effective counter-intelligence and independent body to debunk and expose the myriads of CIA/MOSSAD agents in the country... and literally distance itself from its CIA machinations and intrigues..., when what's at stake is Lebanon's very identity as a country as well as its inhabitants' desires for a multi-confessional and multi-cultural society? Make no mistake about it, the country's core values, both at the institutional level as well as its outlook for a genuine melting pot, are now on the line....

Electors who will cast ballots will not simply choose representatives but select the kind of tolerant environment that the country has been struggling to keep alive during the past few decades.

In reality, what many Lebanese already know is that institutions are vital, whereas politicians are dispensable. It is parliament that is critical not the Speaker, the prime ministership, not the Prime Minister, and the presidency itself, not the President.

The challenge for this group of Lebanese, that is those who believe in their country's institutional prerogatives, is to persuade the rest to emulate them. An even greater test is to separate the traditional, fictitional CIA/MOSSAD clowns and puppets of so-called zu'ama who serve themselves and CIA/MOSSAD from those few elected representatives who painstakingly serve their constituents.

Admittedly, the latter is an art form that must be practiced regularly and with zeal even as regional forces drag specific communities into their own orbits, which result in unlimited turf wars......fully inspired, concocted, perpetuated, organized and deliberately targeted towards endless Lebanese political rivalries that strive to perpetuate CIA2/MOSSAD ossified fiefdoms...

Lebanon's two neighbors, Syria and Israel, have superficial conflicting outlooks for show...but both are covertly in cahoots over how to divide and conquer Lebanon for and with CIA/MOSSAD...in search of specific goals. Damascus insists on retaining Beirut within its own sphere of influence whereas Israel has its eyes on Lebanon's waters. It behooves Lebanese electors to appreciate what their neighbors want from them - or plan to eventually acquire by force - and help build a strong institution-laden society that thrives on protecting the country from CIA/MOSSAD/MI6 predators without betraying their unique national identity...

Moreover, whereas the current parliamentary majority repeats gibberish CIA/MOSSAD claims that Hezbollah's weapons undermine the state's authority, the Party of God is only serving our national interests, but that it cannot possibly disarm while the Israeli threat persists. While both of these arguments contain all the truths, the majority must come to terms with specific demands made by Hezbollah and its Shiite supporters, while the latter must understand that their strategic depths are the Kingdom of Saudi MOSSAD Arabia, CIA and MOSSAD of Herzlia- and no one else.

In the end, everyone must accept demographic changes without challenging the country's political make-up, nor believe that such transformations allow for an extreme makeover. Doing so will result in a permanent division and such a deleterious outcome will end the only Arab democracy while severely limiting the geographical space where freedom thrives. It is up to all Lebanese to understand that unity is the only remedy to deny regional and international CIA/MOSSAD/MI6/DGSE foes long-cherished aspirations.

The Lebanese must share a joint vision to preserve their way of life. That's what is missing in the national dialogue. That's what the international tribunal will not assert because it is an utter charade. That's what upcoming parliamentary elections must determine.

-- Israel hopes for the complete fragmentation of IRAQ in order to colonize parts of Iraq as "Greater Israel" --

Israeli expansionists, their intentions are to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon is already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical "Greater Israel."

Israel reportedly has plans to re-locate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Ninewah under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.

Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslim, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan after the U.S. invasion in 2003 that is considered historical Jewish "property."

The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish "properties" outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq's Shi'a-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of "Greater Israel" as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call "Judea and Samaria."

Kurdish and Iraqi sources report that Israel's Mossad is working hand-in-hand with Israeli companies and "tourists" to stake a claim to the Jewish "properties"of Israel in Iraq. The Mossad has already been heavily involved in training the Kurdish Pesh Merga military forces...

Reportedly assisting the Israelis are foreign mercenaries paid for by U.S. Christian evangelical circles that support the concept of "Christian Zionism."

Iraqi nationalists charge that the Israeli expansion into Iraq is supported by both major Kurdish factions, including the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Iraq's nominal President Jalal Talabani. Talabani's son, Qubad Talabani, serves as the KRG's representative in Washington, where he lives with his wife Sherri Kraham, who is Jewish.

Also supporting the Israeli land acquisition activities is the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed by Massoud Barzani, the President of the KRG. One of Barzani's five sons, Binjirfan Barzani, is reportedly heavily involved with the Israelis.

The Israelis and their Christian Zionist supporters enter Iraq not through Baghdad, but through Turkey... In order to depopulate residents of lands the Israelis claim, Mossad operatives and Christian Zionist mercenaries are staging terrorist attacks against Chaldean Christians, particularly in Ninewah, Irbil, al-Hamdaniya, Bartalah, Talasqaf, Batnayah, Bashiqah, Elkosheven, Uqrah, and Mosul...

These attacks by the Israelis and their allies are usually reported as being the responsibility of "Al Qaeda" and other Islamic "jihadists."

The ultimate aim of the Israelis is to depopulate the Christian population in and around Mosul and claim the land as biblical Jewish land that is part of "Greater Israel." The Israeli/Christian Zionist operation is a replay of the depopulation of the Palestinians in the British mandate of Palestine after World War II...and their blatant attempt at depopulating Southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006, which utterly failed for now...

In June 2003, a delegation of Israelis visited Mosul and said that it was Israel's intentions, with the assistance of Barzani, to establish Israeli control of the shrine of Jonah in Mosul and the shrine of Nahum in the Mosul plains. The Israelis said Israeli and Iranian Jewish pilgrims would travel via Turkey to the area of Mosul and take over lands where Iraqi Christians lived....

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------------ ما كان اتكال الموارنة يوما على القوة الغاشمة، عبر تاريخهم الطويل، وان كانوا قد أظهروا شجاعة وبأسا واستهانة بالنفس في سبيل المحافظة على ايمانهم ومبادئهم وعاداتهم السليمة. ولكنهم اتكلوا أولا وآخرا على ربهم...".

"كلما انقسم الموارنة على ذاتهم، واختلفوا فيما بينهم، دارت الدوائر عليهم، وتغلب عليهم الطامعون بهم. والتاريخ شاهد. وكلما جمعوا صفوفهم ووثقوا عرى التعاون فيما بينهم، صلحت أحوالهم، وازدهرت، واكتسبوا احترام مواطنيهم على اختلاف مذاهبهم.

لا نريد اليوم أن نتوقف على ما نعاني منه. غير أن الواجب يدعونا الى النظر مليا في ما صرنا اليه نحن وجميع اللبنانيين من فرقة وانقسام بالرأي، يلوذ منه الكثير من المواطنين بالسفر والهجرة. وهذا واقع نحن جميعا، دون استثناء مسؤولون عنه. وقد آن الاوان لنحزم أمرنا ونجمع رأينا وننظر مليا في ما آلت اليه أمورنا، لنخرج من الدوامة التي ندور فيها. وهذا وضع يعود بنا القهقرة، ويدفع الكثيرين من بيننا الى الهجرة.... التي عودة بعدها...
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January 27, 2009 -- George Mitchell is not as "neutral" as he is portrayed to be by the New PNAC servants....in USA and Israel, since he is one of their own for decades...

It has been learned from informed U.S. government sources that President Obama's Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell may not be as unbiased as believed by many observers.

At a recent public seminar, Mitchell stated that Israel was the "only democracy in the Middle East." When a seminar attendee questioned Mitchell about his statement, reiterating that Israel gave rights to Jews not enjoyed by Israeli Arabs, both Muslim and Christian, Mitchell responded, "Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East."

Mitchell is being criticized from a number of quarters for not visiting Gaza, Syria, or Lebanon during his upcoming trip to the Middle East. Mitchell is planning to visit only Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank territories. Mitchell is a Lebanese-American.

Regardless of Mitchell's perceived neutrality in Middle East, Mitchell's association with Disney's former CEO Michael Eisner and Disney major shareholder Stanley Gold, both supporters of Israel, that will taint Mitchell's role as an impartial Middle East negotiator. In 2004, Mitchell was named as the replacement for Eisner as Disney chairman of the board after Gold withheld support for Eisner. Gold had originally supported Eisner for the board but also viewed Mitchell as too close to Eisner after the Gold-Eisner break. Gold is the President of Shamrock Holdings, the private investment firm of Roy Disney, the son of Walt Disney. Gold has been a donor to Ehud Barak's political campaigns in Israel, as well as Democrats Barbara Boxer, Joe Lieberman, Betty Castor, Ron Wyden, Tom Lantos, Brad Sherman, Howard Berman, Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, Jane Harman, Henry Waxman, Joe Biden, Sam Gejdenson, Charles Schumer, Al Franken, and Republicans George W. Bush, Arlen Specter, Mitt Romney, and Bob Dole.

Eisner donated to Democrats Jane Harman, Dianne Feinstein, Mark Pryor, Bill Nelson, Harold Ford, Rahm Emanuel, Joe Lieberman, Frank Lautenberg, George Mitchell, and Howard Berman, and Republicans Mel Martinez, Arlen Specter, Richard Lugar, George W. Bush, and the Texas Freedom Fund of Representative Joe Barton (R-TX).

When Eisner was Disney's boss he permitted Israel to sponsor an Israeli exhibit at Epcot Center's Millennium Village. Eisner worked closely with Israel's ambassador to the United States Zalman Shoval and Israel's Foreign Ministry to ensure Israel's exhibit represented Zionist views. The ride informed visitors that Jerusalem was the "capital of the millennium" and the "heart of the Israeli people." Arab and Arab-American organizations decried the exhibit as a recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. Disney also hired young Israeli "guides" as Disney "cast members." Arab groups launched a boycott of Disney theme parks over the Israeli exhibit while the Zionist Organization of America said the exhibit failed to explicitly state that Jerusalem was Israel's capital....http://www.jewishracism.blogspot.com/.

The presence of the Israelis in Disney World preceded by a year the arrival in Florida of a number of Israeli "art student" intelligence agents who lived and worked among some of the 9/11 Arab hijackers.

Mitchell's attitudes towards Israel's so-called "democracy" and his business ties with some of Israel's U.S. Lobby's greatest supporters will tarnish his "honest broker" status in the eyes of the Arabs and the world...

Monday, January 26, 2009

-- Another Iran counter-proliferation spy who was involved in CIA program is outed--







-- Another Iran counter-proliferation spy who was involved in CIA program is outed--

The fallout from the exposure by the Bush White House of the covert CIA identity of Valerie Plame Wilson and the Brewster Jennings & Associates CIA counter-proliferation front company is still claiming new victims.

The latest is a Canadian-Iranian businessman who was spying on Iran's nuclear program for Germany's Federal Intelligence Service (BND)....who are more and
more kowtowing for CIA2 and MOSSAD. Mossad has a major and sprawling facility at Frankfurt's airport...and throughout Germany...

We first reported on the damage caused to U.S. intelligence and that of its allies by the White House disclosures about the CIA's covert counter-proliferation programs.

On May 31, 2006, We reported: "On May 26, Italian police discovered the badly decomposed body of Canadian diplomat Lewis B. Miskell in a Naples sewer. Miskell, 49, had been stabbed in the abdomen. Intelligence sources report that Miskell, who assigned to the Canadian embassy in Vienna, Austria, was the attaché responsible for liaison to UN specialized agencies in Vienna. The most important UN agency in the Austrian capital is the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the nexus for nuclear talks with Iran and a significant activity surrounding the activities of the defunct Brewster Jennings Associates, the covert weapons counter-proliferation front company outed by the Bush White House. The clampdown on information about Miskell by the pro-Bush Stephen Harper government in Canada indicates that Miskell may have had an intelligence function and was operating under "official cover" at the Canadian embassy in Vienna."

In the same May 31, 2006 report, we revealed: "the Swiss Federal Prosecutor's Office has complained to the United States that the Bush administration has failed to cooperate with Switzerland's efforts to track the A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. The Bush administration's multiple refusals to assist Switzerland in probing the Khan network, which was a major target of the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division, Brewster Jennings Associates, and Valerie Plame Wilson, was revealed by former UN weapons inspector David Albright. Switzerland arrested three members of the Tinner family -- Friedrich, Urs, and Marco -- for illegally supplying centrifuges from a Malaysian company to Libya. Urs Tinner has been rumored to have been a U.S. intelligence asset. Switzerland has received cooperation in its probe from Southeast Asian nations, including Malaysia and Thailand, and South Africa. All three are key transit points for nuclear materials involving Russian-Israeli Mafia assets who, in turn, are linked to top members of the Bush administration, including Vice President Dick Cheney."

Urs Tinner recently revealed that he was a CIA asset in the agency's counter-proliferation network.

On February 21, 2008, we reported: "we have learned from UN sources that the 19th Floor from which UN employee Maria DiBiase plunged to her death in the early morning of February 17, houses the Department of Peace-keeping Operations/Field Administration and Logistics Division (DPKO/FALD). The offices also house the code machines used for the encrypted fax machines used for DPKO activities in addition to a spare set of code machines used for DPKO rapid response teams. DiBiase, an Austrian national, was a computer specialist for the UN and a former Conference Services staff member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna, Austria. We have learned that the UN Special Commission (UNSCOM) maintained in a special UN's computer database all the files on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program retrieved from compact disks provided to UNSCOM by Saddam's government prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq. The database is said to include all the black market nuclear suppliers involved in providing materials to Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, and Libya via Turkey and the A Q Khan smuggling network. The list reportedly includes front companies in Switzerland linked to Marc Rich, the American fugitive pardoned by President Clinton, and Dick Cheney. DiBiase is said to have arrived at work Sunday morning to finish a project that was due on Monday morning. We have been told that there may have been a 'black bag' operation taking place on the 19th floor at the same time DiBiase arrived at work."

On March 15, 2007, we reported on another possible casualty of the White House disclosures: "Former Iranian Deputy Defense Minister Ali Reza Asghari may be a further casualty of the outing by the Bush White House and its neo-con media allies of covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson and her Brewster Jennings and Associates front company, according to knowledgeable Turkish sources. "Asghari may have been a CIA 'HVA' (high value asset)," according to one source close to the Turkish intelligence service, MIT. Asghari was definitely a big fish for Western intelligence. Asghari was involved with Hezbollah in Lebanon as Iran's Syria-based liaison with the group. As Deputy Defense Minister, Asghari was also closely involved with Iran's short-range and long-range missiles, as well as nuclear materiel procurement. Asghari had traveled extensively to Russia, North Korea, Pakistan, and India. . . . It is known that Asghari visited Istanbul on a few occasions -- and that city was also a nexus for the activities of Brewster Jennings. While on a trip to Damascus relating to his oversight of the Iran-Syria defense pact, Asghari was contacted by an "arms dealer" in Istanbul, with whom he was familiar from past trips. The arms dealer requested that Asghari come to Istanbul for a meeting. Asghari contacted Tehran and requested permission to travel to Istanbul. Tehran granted Asghari permission to go to Turkey and the Iranian consulate in Istanbul made his hotel reservations. On December 7, 2006, Asghari checked into the Ceyhan Hotel in Istanbul, favored by visiting Iranian officials. Asghari's reservations were for three days. On December 8, Asghari disappeared. Iran reported Asghari missing to Interpol on December 26 and informed the Turkish government about Asghari's missing status on February 4."

Der Spiegel has been reporting on another possible casualty of the Brewster Jennings disclosures. Last October 5, a 61-year old Iranian businessman and top German Federal Intelligence Service (BND) asset, code named "Sinbad," was arrested by German the Customs Criminological Office (ZKA) at Frankfurt Airport. The arrest sent shock waves through the BND, CIA, and, in what could be a link to the murder of Miskell, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS). Both the CIA and CSIS were involved with "Sinbad's" top secret missions in Iran and elsewhere. Der Spiegel reported that Israel's Mossad had tried to gain access to "Sinbad" but was rebuffed by the Germans.

"Sinbad" was charged by German customs authorities with trying to illegally export missile technology to Iran. "Sinbad" had been the manager of a company in Hesse that was likely another front company used to stem the flow of workable nuclear technology to Iran. "Sinbad" had reportedly been operating under non-official cover for the BND, CIA, and CSIS for ten years prior to his arrest by the German customs police. Der Spiegel reported that "Sinbad" was one of the most important sources for BND and CIA intelligence on Iran's nuclear program. "Sinbad's" reports on Iran were delivered directly to German Social Democratic Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The BND now fears that because of German Customs arrest of "Sinbad," it will be more difficult to obtain intelligence on Iranian nuclear operations, something that can only benefit Israeli hard liners who are pushing for a military showdown with Iran.

On October 14, 2008, Der Spiegel reported that "Sinbad" "obtained pictures of tunnel rock drills, details of secret deposits, and up-to-date documents on the progress in developing delivery technology for nuclear warheads." "Sinbad" obtained the information directly from cognizant ministries in Tehran to which he had "excellent access." At the Pullach center of the BND, the agency's Department 1 supervised "Sinbad, and in Berlin, at the location of BND's Department 3, analysts processed "Sinbad's" information. BND was thrilled with the quality of the intelligence. When combined with other intelligence BND received from other sources, the BND and CIA had unique access to the highest secrets of Iran's nuclear program. Ironically, it was another BND asset, code named "Curveball," Iraqi national Rafid Ahmed Alwan, whose bogus intelligence helped lead the United States into war in Iraq after it was hyped by the pro-Israeli think tanks and political operations in Washington.

"Sinbad" was also apparently an important agent who had penetrated the supply chain operated by Pakistan's A Q Khan nuclear proliferation network. "Sinbad" had established another front company, in addition to his firm in Hesse, in Canada, with the approval of the BND.

In early 2008, ZKA initiated taps of "Sinbad's" telephones and e-mail traffic monitored, as well as his travels. ZKA charged that "Sinbad" had exported "dual use" technology to Iran twice and was planning on two more such deliveries. The recipient of the technology in Iran was said to be on a ZKA "black list" of firms in Iran covered by export restrictions by the Germans. From the case of the Tinners in Switzerland, it is known that the CIA was expediting faulty nuclear technology to Iran and other countries, including Libya. "Sinbad" was exporting, in violation of Germany's External Trade Act, technology thought to be for use in Iran's Shahab missiles. The BND was unable to invoke a national security provision to rescue its top agent because "Sinbad" had not been arrested for national security breaches but for export violations. German Chief Federal Prosecutor Monika Harms appears to want "Sinbad's" operations against Iran to fail and, in some ways, she is like U.S. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald in the Plame/Brewster Jennings compromise. Harms rebuffed Ernst Uhrlau, the head of BND, in dropping the case against "Sinbad."

Harms, like Fitzgerald, appears more interested in rolling up the counter-proliferation operation, probably to ensure Israeli-inspired military actions against Iran and the silencing of those who may have information on the involvement of Israelis, Turks, Americans, and others in supplying Iran outside of the CIA's, CSIS's, and BND's program.

גנרל, Aluf,"general", Mount Seir?

"He who controls the present, controls the past... He who controls the past, controls the future..."

-A fast forward for the World... thousands upon thousands of Tribes with more and more flags and Turbans everywhere....-

-A fast forward for the World... thousands upon thousands of Tribes with more and more flags and Turbans everywhere....-
-A fast forward for the World... thousands upon thousands of Tribes with more and more flags and Turbans everywhere....-















גנרל, Aluf,"general", Mount Seir?
Taste of "clans and Tribes to come..."

It will start in the Levant...and will inevitably spread to the whole area/world... progressively... -http://www.jewishracism.blogspot.com/-

Burning Vision....Marie Clements's latest play sears a dramatic swath through the reactionary identity politics of race, gender, religion, sects, tribes and class, using the penetrating yellow-white light, the false sun of uranium and radium, derived from a coal black rock known as pitchblende, as a metaphor for the invisible, malignant evils everywhere poisoning our relationship to the earth and to each other....
Burning Vision unmasks both the great lies of the imperialist power-elite (telling the miners they are digging for a substance to "cure cancer" while secretly using it to build the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki); and the seemingly small rationalizations and accommodations people of all cultures
construct to make their personal circumstances yield the greatest benefit to themselves for the least amount of effort or change on their part. It is also a scathing attack on the "public apology" as yet another mask, as a manipulative device, which always seeks to conceal the maintenance and furtherance of the self-interest of its wearer....

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.... !

"Send men to spy out the land of Canaan, which I give to the people of Israel; from each tribe of their fathers shall you send a man, every one a leader among them." So Moses sent them from the wilderness of Paran, according to the command of The Lord, all of them men who were heads of the people of Israel ... At the end of forty days they returned from spying out the land. And they came to Moses and Aaron and to all the congregation of the people of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; they brought back word to them and to all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.......?."

-- Israel hopes for the complete fragmentation of IRAQ in order to colonize parts of Iraq as "Greater Israel" --

Israeli expansionists, their intentions are to take full control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip and permanently keep the Golan Heights of Syria and expand into southern Lebanon is already well known, also have their eyes on parts of Iraq considered part of a biblical "Greater Israel."

Israel reportedly has plans to re-locate thousands of Kurdish Jews from Israel, including expatriates from Kurdish Iran, to the Iraqi cities of Mosul and Ninewah under the guise of religious pilgrimages to ancient Jewish religious shrines. According to Kurdish sources, the Israelis are secretly working with the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) to carry out the integration of Kurdish and other Jews into areas of Iraq under control of the KRG.

Kurdish, Iraqi Sunni Muslim, and Turkmen have noted that Kurdish Israelis began to buy land in Iraqi Kurdistan after the U.S. invasion in 2003 that is considered historical Jewish "property."

The Israelis are particularly interested in the shrine of the Jewish prophet Nahum in al Qush, the prophet Jonah in Mosul, and the tomb of the prophet Daniel in Kirkuk. Israelis are also trying to claim Jewish "properties" outside of the Kurdish region, including the shrine of Ezekiel in the village of al-Kifl in Babel Province near Najaf and the tomb of Ezra in al-Uzayr in Misan Province, near Basra, both in southern Iraq's Shi'a-dominated territory. Israeli expansionists consider these shrines and tombs as much a part of "Greater Israel" as Jerusalem and the West Bank, which they call "Judea and Samaria."

Kurdish and Iraqi sources report that Israel's Mossad is working hand-in-hand with Israeli companies and "tourists" to stake a claim to the Jewish "properties"of Israel in Iraq. The Mossad has already been heavily involved in training the Kurdish Pesh Merga military forces...

Reportedly assisting the Israelis are foreign mercenaries paid for by U.S. Christian evangelical circles that support the concept of "Christian Zionism."

Iraqi nationalists charge that the Israeli expansion into Iraq is supported by both major Kurdish factions, including the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headed by Iraq's nominal President Jalal Talabani. Talabani's son, Qubad Talabani, serves as the KRG's representative in Washington, where he lives with his wife Sherri Kraham, who is Jewish.

Also supporting the Israeli land acquisition activities is the Kurdistan Democratic Party, headed by Massoud Barzani, the President of the KRG. One of Barzani's five sons, Binjirfan Barzani, is reportedly heavily involved with the Israelis.

The Israelis and their Christian Zionist supporters enter Iraq not through Baghdad, but through Turkey... In order to depopulate residents of lands the Israelis claim, Mossad operatives and Christian Zionist mercenaries are staging terrorist attacks against Chaldean Christians, particularly in Ninewah, Irbil, al-Hamdaniya, Bartalah, Talasqaf, Batnayah, Bashiqah, Elkosheven, Uqrah, and Mosul...

These attacks by the Israelis and their allies are usually reported as being the responsibility of "Al Qaeda" and other Islamic "jihadists."

The ultimate aim of the Israelis is to depopulate the Christian population in and around Mosul and claim the land as biblical Jewish land that is part of "Greater Israel." The Israeli/Christian Zionist operation is a replay of the depopulation of the Palestinians in the British mandate of Palestine after World War II...and their blatant attempt at depopulating Southern Lebanon in the summer of 2006, which utterly failed for now...

In June 2003, a delegation of Israelis visited Mosul and said that it was Israel's intentions, with the assistance of Barzani, to establish Israeli control of the shrine of Jonah in Mosul and the shrine of Nahum in the Mosul plains. The Israelis said Israeli and Iranian Jewish pilgrims would travel via Turkey to the area of Mosul and take over lands where Iraqi Christians lived....

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And when Israeli forces kill innocent civilians or witnesses to their ugly war crimes..., it's known as sikul memukad, or “focused prevention,” more commonly rendered in the western press as "targeted killing," which is of course precisely the definition of the word "assassination..."

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The Secrets Of Iraq...as described by a PNAC KILLER, in order to foment additional divisions, hatred and hundreds of additional Tribes with Flags all around the Middle East Africa and ASIA....

The major obstacle to peace in Iraq is still corruption, and the lack of things we take for granted in the West. The main problem is the absence of what is called "civil society." In short, this means that a majority of the people support clean and efficient government, and energetically back honest politicians, and denigrate dishonest ones.

In Iraq, the three major groups (Kurds, Shia Arabs and Sunni Arabs) never got along. Moreover, there are also hundred of tribes and clans which wield considerable power. The long time lack of honest courts, meant that many judicial matters (contract, marital, criminal and land disputes) were settled by clan or tribal elders. This is still the case. There is also the tradition of "winner take all." Anyone who achieves a position of power in the government is expected to take care of his clan or tribe, usually to the exclusion of anyone else. While many Iraqis understand the need for a civil society, the majority of officials still play by the traditional rules.

As a result, back in the United States, many politicians either don't bother, or don't want to believe, what is actually happening, and has happened, in Iraq. In a way, that makes sense. That's because what is going on in Iraq is so totally alien to the experience of American politicians. Moreover, many Americans take a purely partisan, party line, attitude towards Iraq. So logic and fact has nothing to do with their assessments of the situation. But if you understand where Iraq is coming from, and what it currently is, you have a better chance of seeing where it is, or should be, going.

Iraq is an ancient civilization that has been subjected to continuous foreign occupation (Mongol, Iranian, Turkish, British) for the last thousand years. What we know as Iraq was put together by the British, in the 1920s, from fragments of the recently dissolved Turkish Ottoman empire. The northern part of Iraq, containing mainly Kurds, was then considered part of Turkey itself, and not an imperial province like the rest of Iraq. But there was oil up there, and the British did not want the Turks to have that, in case there was an effort to revive the Ottoman empire. The British set up a constitutional monarchy, complete with parliament, and a royal family imported from Saudi Arabia (a noble clan that had been ousted by the Saud family early in the century). While democracy was alien to this part of the world, many Iraqis took to it. But there were serious problems with corruption, along with divided tribal, ethnic and religious loyalties. For example, the Kurds weren't Arab (they were Indo-European, and about 20 percent of the population), and 60 percent of Iraqis were Shia Moslems (a sect considered heretical by the conservative mainline Sunnis). The Sunni Arabs may have been a minority, but they dominated commerce, government, education and running things in general. Since the 16th century, the Sunni Turks had relied on the Baghdadi Sunni Arabs to help administer the area.

Britain had to re-occupy Iraq early in World War II, because the Sunni Arab dominated government (not the king) tried to ally Iraq with the Nazis. At the time, many Arabs admired Nazism. Many still do. The Brits again conquered country, using three divisions and taking three weeks to do it. The Brits found another bunch of Sunni Arab notables and told them they could run things if they stayed away from the Nazis. That lasted for about a decade, until the Sunni Arab politicians and generals decided that this democracy stuff wasn't working for them. The royal family was massacred and parliament purged of "disloyal" elements. The Sunni Arabs were back in absolute charge, via a series of dictators, until Saddam Hussein was deposed in 2003.

Saddam was a particularly brutal tyrant, killing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis (mostly Shia and Kurds), and terrorizing nearly everyone. After being run out of Kuwait in 1991, and barely surviving another Shia rebellion, he made peace with the Sunni Arab tribal leaders, and unleashed yet another terror campaign on the Shia Arabs. The Kurds were now independent, protected by British and American warplanes.

Now, this is the critical thing that many Americans don't understand, or even know. When Saddam was deposed in 2003, most (well, many) Sunni Arabs believed they would only be out of power temporarily. This sort of thing you can pick up on the Internet (OK, mostly on Arab language message boards, but it's out there). Saddam's followers (the Baath Party) and al Qaeda believed a few years of terror would subdue the Shia, scare away the Americans, and the Sunni Arabs would return to their natural state as the rulers of Iraq. U.S. troops quickly picked up on this Sunni mindset. Because Sunni Arabs were the best educated group, most of the local translators the troops used were Sunni Arabs, and even these guys took it for granted that, eventually, the Sunni Arabs would have to be in charge if the country were to function. The Sunni Arabs believed the Shia were a bunch of ignorant, excitable, inept (and so on) scum who could never run a government. Four years later, the Shia sort-of proved the Sunni Arabs wrong. By 2007, most Sunni Arabs had decided to make peace, not suicide bombs.

Which brings up another major issue in Iraq. Many Iraqis believe only a dictator can run the country, and force all the factions to behave. However, a majority of Iraqis recognize that dictatorships tend to be poor and repressive, while democracies are prosperous and much more pleasant. The problem is that the traditions of tribalism and corruption (everything, and everyone, has their price) do not mesh well with democracy. This doesn't mean democracy can't work under these conditions, many do. It does mean that it takes more effort, and the results are not neat and clean, as Americans expect their democracies to be.

The basic problem is that the United States is divided into two groups; those who have worked (or fought) in Iraq, or otherwise paid close attention to what's happening on the ground, and those who create their own picture of what's happening, one that fits other needs (personal, political, religious). No amount of wishing will change what is going on over there. The majority of the population hates the Sunni Arabs, who now have four years of terrorist attacks added to their list of sins. The Kurds, although beset by corruption and factionalism, have shown that you can still have peace, security and prosperity if everyone works together. The Arabs to the south see that, but have not been able to work together well enough to make it happen. Will the Arabs be able to overcome their factionalism and hatreds? THAT is the big question. What is lost in all the rhetoric about Iraq is that Lebanon and Iraq are the only real Arab democracies in the Middle East. Egypt is a one party state, a dictatorship masquerading as a dictatorship.... Every other Arab state is either a dictatorship, a monarchy or a family run Tribe with a flag.

Iraqis know they are in a position to show the way, to an era of better government, and the freedoms and prosperity that flows from that. Iraqis know they have problems with religion, tribalism and corruption. Iraqis know what they are up against....

“This is the Middle East’s most democratic state …”

Lebanon’s Democracy enjoyed universal secret ballot multi party elections since 1927 (interrupted from 1976-1990 civil war...).

http://libanvote.com/eventshan.....anese9296/

Given that all major communities are represented in the Parliament in Lebanon - but Israel in fact bars around 80 per cent of the “Israeli Arabs” (the Palestinians) from participating in elections as they are stuck as refugees in surrounding territories - I can’t really see how on earth anyone would classify the race-based Israeli system as more democratic than Lebanon’s : you could only believe that if you thought Palestinian refugees are not human in some way...

Veni Vidi Vici...

When Pompey and the Senate fled Rome from Caesar in 49 BC, he did so without an army. As a result, he was forced to draw upon the eastern provinces and allied client states for recruits and supply. With garrisons and massive levies being shipped off to Greece to Pompey's camp, the east was left dangerously vulnerable.

Pharnaces II, king of Pontus, and son of the great Roman enemy Mithridates VI, used the Roman civil war to his advantage. He began a systematic process of re-taking those lands which once belonged to his father's kingdom, and Rome or its allies could do little to stop it.

When Caesar defeated Pompey at Pharsalus in 48 BC, he still had no opportunity to deal with the Pharnaces situation. The war in Alexandria delayed any immediate reaction and his subsequent affair occupied his attention for the seasonal winter months of 48 to 47 BC. Caesar's legate, Gnaeus Domitius Calvinus, was installed as governor of Asia in the interim and did all he could to stop the Pontic advances, but had little success. Calvinus gave battle and the Romans acquitted themselves well, but its allies were cut up badly. Caesar's trouble in Egypt prompted him to request aid from King Mithridates of Pergamum, further depleting the potential resistance to Pharnaces forcing Calvinus to make do.

In a fortunate turn of events, Pharnaces' appointed governor of Crimea revolted, allowing the Romans to recuperate in Asia Minor for the winter. Meanwhile, Caesar was victorious in Egypt, and the lull back in Asia gave him the opportunity to relax on the Nile with Cleopatra.

By the campaign season of 47 BC, Caesar left Egypt and began an overland march through the far eastern provinces. Heading towards the trouble with Pharnaces, Caesar traveled through Judaea and Syria, accepting apologies and granting pardons to those foreign kings and Roman governors who had supported Pompey. In so doing, he was also able to rebuild his war chest through the various tributes paid to him. Boarding ship in Syria Caesar next sailed to Tarsus in Cilicia where he called a meeting of the regional leaders. Securing loyalty once again and laying out his plan of action, Caesar continued the march north to Pontus.

Pharnaces meanwhile, well aware of Caesar's approach and his now notorious clemency, asked Caesar for a pardon of his own. Despite the fact that Pharnaces was the only eastern king who remained neutral in the Roman civil war (as all other in the east had declared for Pompey) Caesar rebutted that only Pharnaces attacked Roman citizens, plundering and killing as he took advantage of the situation.

Still, Caesar offered a peaceful solution, declaring that Pharnaces could be forgiven if he quit Pontus, released Roman prisoners, restored any financial damage done in the process, and of course, pay a hefty tribute. Pharnaces at first agreed, but it was no secret that Caesar had pressing matters both in Rome and against hold out Republican resistance elsewhere. Marcus Antonius, appointed by Caesar as his master of horse (Caesar had been appointed to the dictatorship while in Egypt), was sent back to Rome to oversee administration of the city and was not living up to the task. Pharnaces took advantage and sought to delay Caesar as long as possible, hoping he would decide other matters were more urgent, but Caesar had lost patience.

In May of 47 BC, Pharnaces camped his army on a hill near the town of Zela and Caesar on an opposite hill. The place had historical significance in that Pharnaces' father; Mithridates had defeated a Roman army 20 years earlier. Separated by a valley a few miles apart, the two armies began to position for battle. Caesar, with 4 legions first began to build fortifications, assuming that Pharnaces had no taste for open battle against him, but he soon found this to be wrong. On or about May 30th, Pharnaces moved his lines towards Caesar, attacking with scythed chariots, but the Romans held them back with their pila. The Pontic army engaged full force and hand to hand fighting erupted across the lines.

Despite their tenacity and the advantage of the initial advance, Pharnaces' forces were likely exhausted from the up hill fight. Before long, their lines began to break and it was only a matter of time before the entire army was sent into a rout. Pharnaces managed to escape with some cavalry but his entire army was slaughtered or captured in the overwhelming Roman victory. Caesar claimed that the entire affair, including the rounding up of fleeing prisoners took no more than 4 hours.

Caesar, not only erased the blemish of the earlier Roman loss on this very site, he erected a monument to commemorate just that event. He set about reorganizing parts of the eastern provinces and set up Mithridates of Pergamum as King of Pontus in recognition for his loyalty and service in Egypt. Caesar then crossed from Asia to Thracia, and set sail for Italy. In the meantime, in recognition of his overwhelming victory, he sent a simple, but powerful message back to Rome and the Senate: "VENI VIDI VICI", I came, I saw, I conquered.

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These are the kings who ruled in the land of Edom before a king ruled the children of Israel. And Bela ben Beor ruled in Edom, and the name of his city was Dinhabah. And Bela died, and Jobab ben Zerah from Bozrah ruled in his place. And Jobab died, and Husham of the land of Temani ruled in his place. And Husham died, and Hadad ben Bedad, who struck Midian in the field of Moab, ruled in his place, and the name of his city was Avith. And Hadad died, and Samlah of Masrekah ruled in his place. And Samlah died, and Saul of Rehoboth on the river ruled in his place. And Saul died, and Baal-hanan ben Achbor ruled in his place. And Baal-hanan ben Achbor died, and Hadar ruled in his place, and the name of his city was Pau, and his wife's name was Mehetabel bat Matred bat Mezahab. And these are the names of the clans of Esau by their families, by their places, by their names: clan Timnah, clan Alvah, clan Jetheth, clan Aholibamah, clan Elah, clan Pinon, clan Kenaz, clan Teman, clan Mibzar, clan Magdiel, clan Iram...

Just a couple of cases in point....which translate the above mentioned policies...:
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Israel's Sacred Terrorism: A Study Based on Moshe Sharett's Personal
Diary and Other Documents
http://www.washington-report.org/backissues/031885/850318011.html

Reviewed by Richard H. Curtiss

Most Israelis observe a conspiracy of silence by which certain
subjects widely discussed in the Hebrew press are seldom aired in
English-language media. One Israeli who dared to break that code of
silence, however, is the late Livia Rokach, daughter of Israel Rokach,
Minister of the Interior in the government of Moshe Sharett.

Sharett, a moderate who was Israel's first foreign minister and second
prime minister, kept a diary in which he meticulously recorded his
frustration at the determination of Israel's first prime minister,
David Ben Gurion, to achieve his goals by force, and at the "immense
capacity for plotting and intrigue-making of Moshe Dayan," Ben
Gurion's political protégé. Much of the diary concerns the 1954-55
period during which Ben Gurion had yielded the premiership to Sharett,
but still sought to set Israeli policy, first from his retreat at
Kibbutz Sdeh Boker, and subsequently as Defense Minister under
Sharett. Throughout this time, Ben Gurion carried out a policy he
described as "retaliation," but which Sharett saw as one of regular
provocations designed to bring about a new war in which Israel could
seize more territory from the Arabs in Gaza, the West Bank, Sinai,
Syria and Lebanon.

Avneri: "Rokach Did Clean Work"

Sharett's diary was edited by his son and published in Hebrew only.
When Ms. Rokach translated excerpts from it to insert into her book
about this crucial period and its tragic results, the Israeli Foreign
Ministry threatened her publisher, the Association of Arab American
University Graduates, with legal action if they published it without
the permission of Sharett's son. The AAUG went ahead with publication
and, in the words of Israeli Knesset member Uri Avneri, "the Jerusalem
politicians decided that pursuing a legal course in stopping the
dissemination of the booklet would be a mistake of the first order,
since this would give it much more publicity."

We have the word of Avneri, whose vocal opposition to Israeli war
policies in the 70's and 80's in many ways parallels the silent
opposition of Sharett in the 50's and 60's, that "Livia Rokach did
clean work. All her quotations are real. She did not ever take them
out of context, nor did she quote them in a way that contradicts the
intention of the diary writer."

Through 1954 entries in Sharett's diary we watch the planting of seeds
that led to Lebanon's bloody civil war and to the creation under
renegade Major Saad Haddad of an Israeli-controlled Maronite enclave
along Israel's northern border...and the Gemayels further north..., Sharett
attributes the idea to Ben Gurion:

"This is the time, he (Ben Gurion) said, to push Lebanon, that is, the
Maronites in that country, to proclaim a Christian State..."

The tactics, Sharett writes, were Dayan's:

"According to him (Dayan), the only thing that's necessary is to find
an officer, even just a major. We should either win his heart or buy
him with money, to make him agree to declare himself the savior of the
Maronite population. Then the Israeli army will enter Lebanon, will
occupy the necessary territory, and will create a Christian regime
which will ally itself with Israel. The territory from the Litani
southward will be totally annexed to Israel..."

We see secret raids in 1955 into Arab territory:

"Ben Gurion reported to the cabinet ... how our four youngsters
(Israeli paratrooper reservists) captured the Beduin boys one by one,
how they took them to the wadi, how they knifed them to death one
after the other... When I arrived in Tel Aviv an officer... came to
tell me that the whole revenge operation was organized with the active
help of Arik Sharon, the commander of the paratroopers battalion."

The Story of the Lavon Affair

The diary records the Lavon affair, in which Israeli provocateurs
exploded bombs in U.S. cultural centers and diplomatic establishments
in Cairo and Alexandria in 1954 after being told "to break the West's
confidence in the existing (Nasser) regime... The actions should cause
arrests, demonstrations and expressions of revenge. The Israeli
origins should be totally covered."

When the provocateurs-young Egyptian-born Jews trained in Israel and
returned to their homeland-were caught and tried, Sharett publicly
denied Israeli complicity and accused the Egyptians of "vicious
hostility to... the Jewish people."

In private, however, Sharett deplored "the unleashing of the basest
instincts of hate and revenge... I walk around ... horror-stricken and
lost, completely helpless... What should I do?"

What Sharett should have done is now tragically clear. As Israeli
Prime Minister, had he stood up in the Knesset and denounced Israel's
actions aimed at provoking another Arab-Israeli war, the bloodshed of
1956, 1967, 1970, 1973 1982 and 2006 might have been averted,
and the greatest bloodletting of all-the Lebanese civil war-almost
certainly would not have occurred...

He did not, and today we see an Israel where Ariel Sharon impatiently
awaits his call from his death bed.... to direct the next chapter in a tragic
history-perhaps a Masada for the Jews, or an Armageddon for us all....

Richard H. Curtiss is a retired foreign service officer and executive
director of the American Educational Trust.

By Livia Rokach. Belmont, Massachusetts: Association of Arab American
University Graduates, 1980.

Related documents here:
http://ziomania.com/livia/livia.htm

Ascendancy of Tribes; In Anbar, Clans Are Coddled, Cultivated by CIA/MOSSAD/MI6
http://americanassassination.blogspot.com/2009/01/israels-neo-colonial-wars.html

A fast forward for the World... thousands upon thousands of Tribes with more and more flags and Turbans everywhere....

In rugged western Iraq, once the bastion of the insurgency against the American occupation and now a freewheeling arena of electoral politics steeped in payola, the conversation in the tribal guesthouse in Anbar province was the equivalent of a stump speech.

"If anything happens to any of our candidates, even a scratch on one of their bodies, we will kill all of their candidates!" bellowed Hamid al-Hais, a tribal leader and party boss whose voice was like his build -- husky, coarse and forceful.

"That's right," shouted another sheik, who had suggested -- in jest, inshallah -- that a friend resolve a dispute by strapping on explosives and blowing himself up.

"Of course!" yelled another, who had accused the governor of urinating on Anbar.

"We'll break all the ballot boxes on their heads!" Hais declared, wagging a finger.

Part sheikh and part showman, with a dose of barroom humor, Hais leads a party that has helped make Iraq's provincial elections this month the first truly competitive vote in Sunni Muslim lands since the United States overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003. By all accounts, that is a good thing. But the results of next Saturday's ballot may say less about the campaigns themselves than about the political geography of Anbar, where tribes, sprawling clans steeped in tradition and courted by the U.S. military, enjoy more power than at any time since the Iraqi monarchy was toppled half a century ago.

Here, the new Iraq looks like the old one, imbued with politics that might be familiar to Gertrude Bell, the British diplomat and adventurer who drew the country's borders after World War I.

There is a saying heard these days in Anbar: "Everyone claims they have the love of Laila, but Laila loves none of them." In other words, Laila gets to choose. The same might be said of the tribes, whose mantle everyone claims and which often demand a tidy sum for their support. Coddled and cultivated, the tribes are kingmakers.

"The center of power in Anbar," Hais called them as he sat in the guesthouse, decorated with purple, red and yellow plastic flowers, with 25 tribal leaders gathered over a sprawling, artery-clogging dish of chicken, lamb and a slab of fat, mixed with rice.

The Americans might have hoped the tribes had less power, Hais said, in their vision of a modern state built on the rule of law. "But now," he added, "they're stronger."

It is still democracy, the sheik insisted, gruffly.

A soft-spoken doctor, Sabah al-Ani, managing a crowded clinic in Fallujah, shook his head at the assertion. "If you believe in a stone," he said, "you can say it's God."

"We wanted technocrats," he went on, "and we were left with the tribes."

A Perfidy of Politics

Raad al-Alwani, another sheik in the mold of Hais, is one of more than 520 candidates in Anbar who are running on 37 electoral lists, though only a handful have real clout. His posters adorn blast walls, cluttered with the symbols and portraits of his opponents. Promises are few. Politics are often reputation, and a name usually suffices. "You're aware of me," one candidate declares, a bit menacingly.

In such places as Najaf and Karbala, steeped in Shiite Muslim scholarship, the turbaned clerics often speak in abstract metaphor and sometimes impenetrable analogies. When they speak. A grand ayatollah is still remembered for answering almost any question posed to him with one of two phrases: yajuz or la yajuz, possible or not possible.

In Anbar, a desert bisected by the Euphrates River that stretches west of Baghdad, such reticence would qualify as effeminate. And Alwani, as he likes to point out, is a man.

To guests, he hands out a leaflet with seven pictures of a bloodied corpse. "This is the fate of anyone who dares attack the house of Sheik Raad Sabah al-Alwani," it reads.

His criticism runs fast and no less furious....

He loathes the Iraqi Islamic Party, an heir of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the most powerful Sunni parties that has controlled the province since elections in 2005. "I wouldn't work with them even if the Euphrates River changed directions and flowed back to Syria." He barely disguises his disgust at his former allies in the Awakening, a tribal gathering sometimes called the Sons of Iraq that helped defeat the group al-Qaeda in Iraq in Sunni regions with U.S. support. Cowards, he said. "And liars, too. How are they not?" The same goes for Harith Dhari, a cleric who once spoke on behalf of the Sunni community but now lives in exile in Jordan. "A barking dog," he said dismissively.

That leaves the tribal leaders, he said -- at least the ones he deems honorable. They are men who boast of their sway over the vast networks of clan, patronage and loyalty that the tribes in Iraq represent, and of their history in organizing Iraqi society for centuries and serving as a pillar of the monarchy installed by the British. Members of Albu Fahd, the largest tribe in Anbar, with a leadership determined by sometimes elusive consensus, say they can mobilize 80,000 voters -- and almost as many men with guns.

An exaggeration perhaps -- not uncommon here -- but not by far.

In the early years of the occupation, Anbar seemed monochromatic in its sentiments. There was an occupation, people often said, and it was the duty of Muslims to resist it. Bordering Syria, Jordan and Saudi Arabia, with a porous frontier, the province soon became the most lethal locale for the U.S. military -- al-Qaeda in Iraq effectively ruled swaths of its flat desert. The revolt by the Awakening that began in 2006, led by tribal leaders such as Hais and Alwani, vanquished al-Qaeda and brought a remarkable, if precarious, calm. In Fallujah, once an insurgent stronghold where the mutilated and charred bodies of contractors were strung from a bridge in 2004, in an indelible image of the war, the popular restaurant Hajji Hussein has reopened, drawing throngs of customers for kebab reputed to be the best in Iraq.

But as Alwani's criticism testifies, postwar Anbar is a complicated landscape of shifting loyalties, often pushed and pulled by American largess that has made tycoons of men such as Alwani, who flaunts two prized falcons at his palatial home worth $4,000 each. Even the Awakening itself is in tatters, nearly all of its original leaders having deserted it.

"People here don't have principles. Their principles are zero," said Alwani, sitting with another tribal sheik, Jassim Swaidawi, a man he described as his dear friend.

Alwani left the room, and Swaidawi acknowledged his own fleeting loyalty.

He planned to vote for someone else. "I haven't told him yet," he admitted.

The perfidy of politics here has made for a scramble as sheiks and the Iraqi Islamic Party try to cobble together a slate of candidates that can claim the greatest breadth of tribal support. The Islamic Party is unpopular but still powerful given its presence in the government, access to the official budget and recourse to patronage that awards jobs in the state and security forces.

Some have recoiled at the ferocity of the competition.

"By God, all these parties are making for us fitna," discord and conflict, said Mishaan al-Jumaila, a tribal leader in Garma, a town near Fallujah that was once so dangerous no one but its residents dared venture there.

Beneath the tumult, residents say, it is clear that the tribes, wherever their loyalties, whatever their divisions, play the decisive role. Of the most powerful groups, only Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni parliament member drawing support from the still-substantial sympathy for Hussein's Baath Party, stands apart. The rest claim the tribes' mantle.

Hais's party, appropriately called the Tribes of Iraq List, offers candidates from 11 clans, among them the powerful Albu Fahd. No less insistent is the Islamic Party, which has staked its future on its own tribal alliances. One list joins a few of its candidates with the remnants of the Awakening, led by Ahmed Abu Risha, whose brother, Abdel-Sittar, led the movement until he was assassinated in September 2007, inaugurating its divisions. Another list claims the support of Amr Abdel-Jabbar, deemed by many as Anbar's preeminent sheik. Its leaders make clear the Islamic Party is the junior partner.

Of the 29 candidates, 15 are tribal figures. The Islamic Party has 12, but they had to agree to let the tribes vet, then choose, their candidates from a pool of 25 nominees.

"As the lead partner," said Abdel-Rahman al-Zubaie, who heads the Tribal Council of Fallujah and is himself a candidate, "we had the right to say the final word."

He shook his head, in a look that comes from stating the obvious.

"Of course," he added.

'I Speak From Bitterness'

In a land of swagger, Ali al-Rahal is modest. Amid the bombast, he is retiring. And in a campaign where money talks, he is penniless, having sold his and his wife's wedding rings to pay for campaign posters.

Rahal is a leader of the Sons of the Two Rivers Movement, a group of secular liberals running under the slogan "Together for Development." Shiites and Kurds sit on their board. So do a Christian and a Jew, one of the handful left in the country. They advocate human rights, transparency, an end to corruption and the rehabilitation of Iraq.

"We consider this real democracy," he said.

And no one seems to be listening. No one really can. The movement has almost no way to get the word out.

One party member sold his car for $4,000. Another donated $1,250. They are considering auctioning off their red and gold furniture, lonely as it is in an office bereft of posters, party literature and the campaign pens tribal candidates pass out.

"We can't even afford these," Rahal said, waving a leaflet the size of a playing card for one of their candidates. "And this is something simple!"

Everyone rails against the corruption in Anbar these days. Complaints run rife against the Islamic Party, accused by detractors of everything from skimming off contracts for tens of millions of dollars to build a hospital, a factory for artificial limbs and a sewage system to trying to bribe journalists with $40 Citizen watches. Sheiks protest, but their outrage seems more indignation that a rival managed to somehow steal more than they did.

To Rahal, though, that corruption speaks to a deeper malaise in postwar Anbar. To bring peace, the Americans chose allies -- tribal leaders such as Hais. To rebuild Anbar, they awarded vast contracts; in a glass case, Alwani framed a certificate of appreciation from the U.S. military that declares him "one of the best contractors the Marines have ever worked with." The result has left Rahal and liberals like him adrift in a landscape stitched together by the tribes, their new wealth and the alliances that ensued.

It has left him resentful, too. "Saddam Hussein gave the sheiks 5 million dinars each, right before he was overthrown, and they turned around and used the money to buy the Americans lunch. This is true," Rahal said. "You can buy and sell a lot of the sheiks for a glass of Scotch."

"Forgive me if I'm forthright," he added. "I speak from bitterness."

A few days later, Rahal showed up for an appointment at his office, which was now locked. The landlord had kicked the group out for failing to pay the $600-a-month rent. The landlord's assistant said he planned to confiscate the furniture, too. Whispering, Rahal pleaded with him to use the office for just a few minutes, and he reluctantly agreed.

A Coming-of-Age Fight

For a man, just 40, whose name was known to few outside his family in Ramadi before the U.S.-led invasion and Hussein's fall, Hais carries authority well.

In his Toyota Land Cruiser, Anbar's equivalent of a Cadillac, he takes the wheel. "I drive better," he said.

He scoffs at the idea of visiting a mosque and brags of his 2,000 olive trees and show horse named for his oldest son, Adham. He shows off his scars: a partial right finger and two wounds in his right leg, suffered in a clash in 2007 with al-Qaeda in Iraq.

"The Americans told me to be afraid. They said I should fear something, but I swear to God, I've never felt fear," he said. "God doesn't want me to be killed."

Since the American invasion, myths have always seemed to shape the sentiments of Anbar. During the battles for Fallujah in 2004, residents traded stories about birds guided by God casting stones at Apache helicopters and a scented breeze that descended on fighters as they battled U.S. troops. Hais has his own lore, the story of the fight he and other tribal leaders waged against al-Qaeda in what they call a liberation and a revolution.

To him, that struggle was a coming-of-age, his in a province where his generation will wield far more power than their fathers, some of whom fled abroad during the fight.

The older sheiks "are like verbs in the past tense," Hais said. "We rely on the tribes to the greatest extent. But not the sheiks of the tribe. The sons of the tribes."

Even he seems surprised, though, by the power he was delivered.

"If you look into my heart, you'll see that I don't think the power of the tribes is a good thing," he said, sitting underneath portraits of fellow sheiks and friends and family killed in the fight against al-Qaeda in Iraq. "With the fall of Saddam Hussein, we were ready to gaze up at skyscrapers, and all we found was houses destroyed and streets abandoned."

"This is what we got," he said.

For a moment, his rough humor subsided. So did his swagger. And for once, he turned reflective. "If we had a modern state, we wouldn't have to rely on the rule of tribes," he insisted. But until then, "a little bit of evil is better than more."

"A little bit of evil is better," he said again....

http://americanassassination.blogspot.com/2009/01/israels-neo-colonial-wars.html

Lessons of History: The PNAC Cabal of Killers are Pushing A Hundred Years War...
Morality, self-respect, respect for others, and self-control...everything we learned in kindergarten has been overtaken by gibberish b.s. False doctrines, corrupt leadership, media propaganda, immorality, and a "victimization mentality" have brought our country to the brink of destruction! Anything that is true, moral and civilized has been mocked and vilified by certain groups, because they know that they are wrong, immoral, and self-serving... They play on emotions and our decency to manipulate us...as they continue to manipulate the world by Divide and Conquer tactics...
USA, Israeli, and British inspired Counter-insurgencies, and other covert missions contributing to the 'long war' on nationalist aspirations worldwide, in order to further the aims of the Neo-Hegemonistic designs of the PNAC Cabal and the militarization of Energy security for PNAC.

The cover of the Jan. 10-16, 2009 issue of the City of London's flagship The Economist magazine really tells it all, with its photograph of Israeli jets bombing Gaza City, and a headline that announces "The hundred years' war."

The editorial policy statement accompanying the cover, glibly begins:

With luck, the destructive two-week battle between Israel and Hamas may soon draw to an end. But how long before the century-long war between Arabs and Jews in Palestine follows suit? It is hard to believe that this will happen any time soon.... Gaza, remember, is only one item in a mighty catalogue of misery, whose entries are inscribed in tears. The Jews and Arabs of Palestine have been fighting off and on for 100 years.... The slaughter this week in Gaza ... will pour fresh poison into the brimming well of hate.

The Economist promo for another 100 years of bloodshed in the Holy Land continues:

A conflict that has lasted 100 years is not susceptible to easy solutions or glib judgments. Those who choose to reduce it to the 'terrorism' of one side or the 'colonialism' of the other are just stroking their own prejudices. At heart, this is a struggle of two peoples for the same patch of land. It is not the sort of dispute in which enemies push back and forth over a line until they grow tired. It is much less tractable than that, because it is also about the periodic claim of each side that the other is not a people at all—at least not a people deserving sovereign statehood in the Middle East. That is one reason why this conflict grinds on remorselessly from decade to decade.

Sykes-Picot Legacy

The Economist was not merely offering commentary. As their editors know, it has been British policy, for more than 100 years, to actively promote precisely the kind of perpetual warfare that we see today in the Israeli onslaught against Gaza. The fact that this clearly documented history has been largely suppressed and forgotten, does not in any way undermine the truth. Indeed, the failure of leading American policymakers to appreciate that the long reach of the British empire is still driving events in Southwest Asia, is one of the primary reasons that the conflict remains so apparently intractable, to this day.

To address this dilemma, and to provide the newly inaugurated Obama Administration with the needed historical understanding, the staff of EIR presents the following account of the political war that raged for decades, between the republican, anti-colonialist United States of America, and the European colonial powers, over the future of Southwest Asia.

In the midst of World War I, Britain and France conspired to impose Anglo-French colonial rule over the territory of the former Ottoman Empire, under the secret Sykes-Picot agreements of 1916. The United States attempted to offer an alternative policy. Two American missions to the region—the Military Mission to Armenia, and the King-Crane Commission—directly countered the European colonial schemes. The emergence of Turkey as a unique sovereign state under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was the only concrete accomplishment of the American effort, but the fault-lines between the American republican outlook and the European imperial outlook were well known throughout the region.

Still, Today ...

Some reading this introduction will react: The history aside, Britain is no longer an imperial power with global reach. If anything, the United States has replaced Britain as the world's would-be imperial giant. Again, this is simply wrong.

Just follow the path of the leading war ally of the Bush-Cheney team, Britain's former Prime Minister Tony Blair. It was Blair who made clear, in an April 1999 speech in Chicago on the 50th anniversary of NATO, that the world is now in a post-Westphalian, i.e., post-nation state, imperial epoch. And it is Blair, in his supposed capacity as the peace emissary of the Quartet (the United States, Russia, the United Nations, and the European Union), who is promoting the idea that the next Hundred Years War in the Mideast shall be between "moderates" (Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia) and "extremists" (Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and, perhaps, Syria).


Related Articles

When America Fought the British Empire and Its Treacherous Sykes-Picot Treaty, by Dean Andromedas

It Is Time To Bury the Brutish Empire!: British Deception Responsible for Palestinian Bloodshed Today, by Hussein Askary

Netanyahu's Godfather: How British Imperialists Created the Fascist Jabotinsky, by Steven P. Meyer; file includes "Parvus, Jabotinsky, and London's Young Turks."

For further background, see:

Jabotinsky Wrecked Zionists' Hope for `Water for Peace' in Mideast,
by Steven P. Meyer

Netanyahu's Fascist Record: All Roads Lead to Shultz,
by Steven P. Meyer

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"He who controls the present, controls the past... He who controls the past, controls the future."
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The Irish and the Israelis have more in common than you might imagine. The Irish are Celts and Celtic tribes were badly beaten up by the Romans, just like the Jews. In fact Celtic tribes used to dominate central Europe and once captured Rome (in 390BC) but Roman legions later tore them to pieces in northern Italy and France (the Gauls were Celts too). Caesar was one of our big tormentors while father and son team Vespasian and Titus who sacked Jerusalem in 70AD were two of yours.

Meanwhile the Celts were being squeezed by another ferocious people from the north. That was the Germans. I understand you Jews had some experience of their bad manners too. Germanic tribes pushed south and took over or destroyed previously successful Celt cultures. Celts were squeezed back to the Britannic Islands where in the 5th century they were attacked again - by more Germanic tribes streaming in from north Germany and throwing us out of our ancestral lands. Now Ireland is the last remaining Celtic nation state in the world. With a population not much different from Israel's.

So there we are, two nations at opposite fringes of Europe with a history of oppression by Romans and Germans both trying to make ourselves heard on the modern stage by the big boys and both with painful local relational issues still unsettled.
They should be talking....and they are talking and allowing Irish passports...troops ....etc. to be used covertly by MOSSAD's killers worldwide...and Aman's intelligence gathering goons....
It is already under-represented in the media to massive and unfair excess, often erroneously and unfairly, resulting in rampant anti-Zionist goy-hatred in the world. That's why. (I'm forced to qualify here that I'm a lapsed Catholic, not Jewish.) After people have been demonized excessively, they bristle at the prospect of being further demonized. Because calm and fair discussions have not been allowed to happen in the past, they do not expect new exchanges to be fair or calm....