Saudi Arabia - You are next?

Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.

The Obama regime's spy boss, the notorious Admiral Blair, has given us some clues about which countries may be dismembered by the USA in the coming months and years.

1. On 12 February 2009, Admiral Blair told Congress that bin Laden could relocate.

"For example, he said, al-Qaeda elements in Yemen now pose a new threat to Saudi Arabia, whose own efforts have been successful in killing or capturing most al-Qaeda senior leaders in that country."

In Pakistan, "an intensified campaign against terrorists has failed to subdue multiple insurgencies or quell growing radicalism in many parts of the country." - Official: Economic Strife Poses Security Threat to US


2. "In February of 1975 the London Sunday Times revealed information from a leaked and classified US Department of Defense plan.

"The plan, drawn up by the Pentagon, was code named 'Dhahran Option Four' and provided for an invasion of the world's largest oil reserves, namely Saudi Arabia." - (Who Really Wants to Invade Saudi Arabia, and Why?) - Who can Saudi Arabia trust?

3. A plan to split Saudi Arabia gives the Saudis the holy sites and us the oil - New Statesman - The secret partition

4. Bin Laden links to Indonesia, Jersey, Sudan, Geneva...



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Obama regime to kill off Binyam?

The notorious Admiral Blair, Obama's spy chief, is expected to continue to allow kidnapping and torture.

According to The Observer, on 8 February 2009, a Top US lawyer is warning of deaths at Guantánamo

According to The Observer:

"Suspicion is ... growing that some sections of the US intelligence community would prefer Binyam did die inside Guantánamo...

"Such a scenario would ... deny Binyam Mohamed the chance to personally sue the US, and possibly British authorities, over his treatment."

(Binyam Mohamed tortured - to turn him into a patsy?.)

1. Lt. Colonel Yvonne Bradley, an American military lawyer, is demanding the release from Guantanamo of her client Binyam Mohamed, the British resident who, reportedly, was repeatedly tortured on the instructions of US and UK intelligence officials. (a Top US lawyer is warning of deaths at Guantánamo)

2. Bradley is to tell the UK government that Binyam, 31, is dying in his Guantánamo cell and that conditions at Guantanamo have got much worse since the Obama regime came to power.

3. Witnesses say beatings continue at Guantanamo and 20 of those detained are described as being so unhealthy they are on a "critical list".

4. Binyam Mohamed has told Bradley that he is "very scared" of being attacked by guards, after witnessing a savage beating of a detainee who refused to be strapped down.

5. In San Francisco, a court is to examine the treatment of Binyam Mohamed.

American lawyers are hoping to expose the defence firm that allegedly carried out the practice of "rendition" on behalf of the CIA.

Jeppesen Dataplan, a Boeing subsidiary, reportedly helped to arrange rendition flights, including that of Binyam.

6. The UK Attorney General says the UK is "actively considering" possible criminal wrongdoings against MI5 and the CIA.

However, "the government's senior lawyer has failed, after almost four months of looking into the issue, to request material from the US that may substantiate allegations of MI5 complicity in Mohamed's torture." (a Top US lawyer is warning of deaths at Guantánamo)

CIA torture flights.

Obama's new spy chief is the notorious Admiral Blair!

(Admiral Dennis Blair 'lied' about church killings. / Admiral Dennis Blair and Genocide)

On 5 February 2009, John Pilger wrote in The New Statesman (The politics of bollocks):

"Far from 'shutting down the CIA’s secret prison network', Obama’s executive orders actually give the CIA authority to carry out renditions, abductions and transfers of prisoners in secret without threat of legal obstruction."

The Los Angeles Times disclosed, “current and former US intelligence officials said that the rendition programme might be poised to play an expanded role”.

"America’s numerous 'covert actions' will operate as they did under previous presidents, with proxy regimes, such as Augusto Pinochet’s in Chile, doing the dirtiest work."




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Admiral Dennis Blair 'lied' about church killings.

Blair, whom Obama wants as his Intelligence chief.

Distinguished author Allan Nairn, 22 January 2009, writes:

US Intel Nominee Lied About '99 Massacre. US, Church Documents Show Adm. Dennis Blair Knew of Church Killings Before Crucial Meeting.

On the eve of his Senate confirmation hearing (Jan. 22, 2009), new information has emerged showing that Adm. Dennis Blair - President Obama's nominee for US Director of National Intelligence - lied about his knowledge of a terrorist massacre that occured before a pivotal meeting in which Blair offered support and US aid to the commander of the massacre forces.

The massacre took place at the Liquica Catholic church in Indonesian-occupied East Timor two days before Blair met face-to-face with the Indonesian armed forces commander, Gen. Wiranto

(the massacre occurred on April 6, 1999; Blair and Wiranto met April 8).

A classified US cable shows that rather than telling Wiranto to stop the killing, Blair invited Wiranto to be his guest in Hawaii, offered him new US military aid, and told the Indonesian general that he was "working hard" on his behalf, lobbying the US government to restore US military training aid for Indonesia.

General Wiranto, friend of the Pentagon.


(That training had been cut off by Congress after the 1991 Dili, Timor massacre; for an account of the US cable and the April 8, '99 Blair-Wiranto meeting see News and Comment posting of Jan. 6, 2009 at http://www.allannairn.com/2009/01/admiral-dennis-blair-prospective-obama.html).

Blair's support at that crucial April 8 meeting buoyed Wiranto, and his forces increased the Timor killings, which came to include new attacks on churches and clergy, mass arsons, and political rapes.

(For a detailed chronology based on a UN report, see News and Comment posting of Jan. 9, 2009 at http://www.allannairn.com/2009/01/blair-church-massacre-continued.html).

Wiranto's militias, who murdered Christians. At least one third of the population of East Timor died after Kissinger and Ford, in 1975, gave Suharto their approval for an Indonesian invasion. The USA continued to support Indonesia's military at the time of the 1999 referendum on independence.


Since I disclosed the contents of that Blair-Wiranto meeting in a report filed in 1999 (see Allan Nairn, "US Complicity in Timor," The Nation, Sept. 27, 1999, reprinted in the Jan. 6 '09 News and Comment posting referenced above), Blair has defended himself by claiming that he went into the meeting with Wiranto not yet knowing of the Liquica massacre.

The Associated Press reported this month, in a January 9 dispatch: "Blair has said he only learned of the massacre a few days after the meeting."

(Pamela Hess, "Obama to finalize national security team Friday," Associated Press, Friday Jan. 9, 2009, 4:22 am ET; Blair made the same claim to the Washington Post: Dana Priest, "Standing Up to State and Congress," September 30, 2000).

East Timor. The USA reportedly trained the bad guys.


But now, contemporaneous records have emerged - from the US Embassy in Jakarta, and from the Catholic Church - showing that the massacre was publicly described by Timor's Bishop one day before the Blair-Wiranto meeting, and that while Blair was in Jakarta preparing for the meeting, US officials who were there with him were discussing the massacre in graphic detail.

One written message from a US official even noted: "In the face of the scores of horrible slash wounds at Liquica, there are no surgeons to treat them."

The US official was referring to the fact that, as had been disclosed at the Timor Bishop's April 7 press conference, dozens of refugees sheltering in the church had been hacked to death with machetes, but as Blair and Wiranto prepared to meet, some of those slashed were still alive.

Another Jakarta dispatch by senior US personnel written prior to the Blair-Wiranto sitdown refers explicitly to Blair's presence, to his impending meeting with Wiranto, and, crucially, to the detail and rough death toll of the already-known Liquica massacre.

"[W]e have the CINCPAC here today (Command[e]r in Chief of the Pacific]," the message said, referring to Blair by title; and it stated, in regard to what Wiranto's men had done: "Now we may have 40 people - who were cowering in a church - dead."

Photo of East Timor : http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/sets/72157594399061389/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/

Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, had made the key facts of the massacre clear in his April 7, 1999 press conference, which took place the day before the Blair-Wiranto meeting.

Belo was accompanied by Father Rafael Dos Santos, the Liquica pastor who survived the massacre. Their authoritative accounts received same-day coverage in the Western and local press and were also recounted in church bulletins and in US intelligence and diplomatic traffic.

For Blair to claim that he did not know of these materials or his US colleagues' discussions taking place all around him is to strain credulity to the breaking point, especially since he's being nominated as intelligence chief, and since his meeting with Wiranto was cleared by Washington precisely to address the Timor crisis.

Bishop Belo and Father Dos Santos said the following in their publicly broadcast remarks. This account is excerpted from "Timorese Bishop says more than 25 killed in church massacre," DILI, East Timor, April 7 [1999], (AFP):

"Nobel peace laureate Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo accused Indonesian-backed militia on Wednesday [April 7] of massacring more than 25 people in East Timor outside a church.

"Belo was speaking at a press conference with Father Rafael Dos Santos who described how refugees sheltering in his church and home at Liquisa [an alternate spelling of Liquica], 30 kilometers (20 miles) west of the Timorese capital Dili, were hacked down with machetes.

"Dos Santos said Indonesian mobile brigade police stood behind the militia during the attack, and fired into the air.

"When the attack began 'people ran for cover wherever they could,' he said. Some ran into his house and some into the church before being forced out when troops fired teargas into the buildings. 'When they came out of the church, their eyes streaming, they were mown down, hacked to death with machetes, by the Besi Merah Putih (Red and White Iron militia),' he said ...


East Timor by yeowatzup

"Belo travelled to Liquisa earlier Wednesday to visit the site of the attack with Indonesia's East Timor military commander Colonel Tono Suratman. 'I have a paper from the military commander that there were 25 bodies inside the priest's house,' he said, 'but according to other witnesses outside around the church there were other bodies. I don't know exactly how many.'

"Belo had been quoted by the Portugese news agency Lusa on Tuesday [April 6] as saying he had first been informed by the Indonesian military of the deaths of 40 people in the church and five in the priest's house... 'Firstly I am sad, for what happened in Liquisa ... secondly I am ashamed to be a citizen of the (Indonesian) republic. It has taken us back to the middle ages,' Belo said."

We shall now see where the Senate takes us.

(For another contemporaneous -- April 7, pre - Blair/Wiranto meeting -- public report of the massacre see the report of Yayasan HAK, the leading independent East Timorese human rights group, summarized at http://etan.org/et99/april/3-10/6yayasan.htm).

Readers can reach the US Senate Intelligence Committee, which is holding today's confirmation hearing on Blair, through the US Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121.

Via the switchboard they can also reach the offices of Senators on the committee. Key members include the committee chair, Sen. Diane Feinstein, the ranking Republican, Sen. Kit Bond, Sen. Ron Wyden, who has said he will question Blair about Timor, Sen. Russ Feingold, a longtime critic of US aid to the Indonesian military, and Sen. Barbara Mikulski, who has also criticized the US policy.

A Jan. 22 '09 Democracy Now! broadcast version of this report can be found at
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/1/22/report_intel_nominee_adm_dennis_blair .

A YouTube excerpt of that broadcast is at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eRMV0CV4ms


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Admiral Dennis Blair and Genocide

Blair

Dennis Blair may become Obama's Director of National Intelligence

Admiral Dennis Blair is one of the people linked to what may be the biggest genocide in the world, the genocide in East Timor, in which at least one third of the population died.

A Catholic missionary gave an eyewitness account of a massacre, carried out by the Indonesian military, in East Timor, in 1981:

"Not even pregnant women were spared: they were cut open...

"They did what they had done to small children the previous year, grabbing them by the legs, and smashing their heads against rocks...." (Two Indonesias Two Americas)

The CIA and the Pentagon have trained Indonesia's Top Brass: Lt Gen Johny Lumintang (brought to the USA for training in 1989), Lt Gen Prabowo Subianto (trained at Fort Benning), General Panjaitan, General Kiki Syahakri....

Photo of East Timor : http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/sets/72157594399061389/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/


Allan Nairn and other journalists report the following (East Timor US Complicity in Timor):

In April 1999, Admiral Dennis Blair, US Commander in Chief of the Pacific Command, was asked by the US State Department to tell Indonesian General Wiranto to stop the mass murders in East Timor.

But when Blair met Wiranto he failed to deliver the message and instead reassured Wiranto of US support for the Indonesian armed forces.

When the State Department discovered this, Blair was again asked to contact Wiranto.

Blair AGAIN failed to tell Wiranto to shut the militias down.

Blair gave Wiranto an offer of military assistance and a personal invitation to be Blair's guest in Hawaii.

East Timor by yeowatzup

Blair, a former classmate of Oliver North at the US Naval Academy , was Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command (20 Feb 1999 - 2 May 2002).

Blair was the highest ranking U.S. military official in the region during the final period of violence in East Timor, as Indonesian security forces and their militias killed, looted, and destroyed the country's infrastructure.

Etan.org provides some details

( http://www.etan.org/et99b/september/26-30/27nairn.htm / http://www.etan.org/news/2000a/01wpblair.htm):

In April 1999, Blair met in Jakarta with General Wiranto, then the Defense Minister and the commander of Indonesian forces, just days after dozens of refugees in a Catholic church in the town of Liquica, East Timor were hacked to death by machetes by militia members backed by the military (including Kopassus) and Brimob troops.

Instead of pressuring Wiranto to shut down the militias, Blair promised new military assistance, which the military "took as a green light to proceed with the militia operation," according to Allan Nairn, writing in the Nation magazine at the time....

"Blair was fully aware of what was going on in East Timor at the time...

"From a windowless concrete building near Blair's Pacific Command headquarters, seven intelligence analysts at the 'Joint Intelligence Center,' the world's largest military intelligence center, had tracked the movements of Indonesian and militia forces since May 1998," according to the Washington Post.

On 20 December 2008, we learn: Obama is to tap a retired admiral as his intelligence czar.

(AFP) — President-elect Barack Obama has tapped retired Navy admiral Dennis Blair as his intelligence czar, US media reported Saturday...

If confirmed as Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Blair would face ticking international time bombs inherited from the administration of President George W. Bush, including two wars, secret CIA prisons overseas and domestic wiretapping.


Oil rich East Timor lies between Indonesia and Australia.

East Timor by Yeowatzup

1. Is there a joint US-Australian-Indonesian plot to control oil-rich East Timor?

On 7 February 2008, a new security pact between Australia and Indonesia went into force.

On 11 February 2008, there was an attempt to assassinate the leaders of East Timor, president Jose Ramos and prime minister Horta Xanana Gusmao.

East Timor's Government says Australian-led United Nations forces failed to help President Jose Ramos Horta after he was shot.

Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado, who attacked the president, has received military training in Australia.

Reinado was shot dead during the attack on the president's home.

(Australia to send more troops to East Timor after assassination ... / East Timor president in 'serious' condition after shooting / UN police 'refused to help' injured Ramos Horta / Security pact between Australia, Indonesia comes into effect)

2. On 14 August 2003, Dr Damien Kingsbury, head of philosophical, political and international studies at Deakin University, wrote about the activities of the (American-trained) Indonesian special forces Kopassus regiment in East Timor: (http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/13/1060588456746.html)

"Kopassus still trains and organises the militias in West Timor that continue cross-border destabilisation operations into East Timor, according to a range of senior UN officials I spoke to there just weeks ago, and based on the Kopassus and militia members I saw in West Timor days later."

3. Why the East Timor-Indonesia area is important to America and the World:

1. Huge reserves of oil and gas.

2. Control of the oil shipping lanes from the Middle East to China/Japan.

3. The Indonesian military is seen as being an important ally in the attempt to contain China.

4. Why the World should care about East Timor:

1. With the approval of President Ford and Henry Kissinger, Indonesian invaded East Timor in 1975. That was when the genocide began and at least one third of the population died. In East Timor, Indonesia's Kopassus regiment, trained by the United States, used the tactics of the US Phoenix program in South Vietnam: systematic rapes, tortures and executions

2. The US government and its allies turned a blind eye to the terror in East Timor. When journalists spoke out, they were murdered and governments remained silent. (The Financial Times's Sander Thoenes, Australia's Greg Shackleton and Tony Stewart, Britain's Brian Peters and Malcolm Rennie, New Zealand's Gary Cunningham. journalists: Western journalists murdered by Indonesian military ...). The generals responsible for the genocide in East Timor have escaped justice. Indonesia is now run by American trained General Yudhoyono, who was involved in East Timor.

3. When the Indonesian general's militias were massacring East Timorese in 1999, it was reportedly with the approval of the Pentagon.

Journalist Alan Nairn revealed that immediately after the vicious massacre of dozens of refugees seeking shelter in a church in Liquica, U.S. Pacific Commander Admiral Dennis Blair assured Indonesian Army chief General Wiranto of US support and assistance, proposing a new U.S. training mission. East Timor

5. Who is behind the present turmoil in East Timor?

In 2005, in regional elections, 80% of votes went to Fretilin, led by Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri.

Alkatiri wants the oil wealth of East Timor to go to the East Timorese people.

He opposes privatisation and interference by the World Bank. (ITV - John Pilger - East Timor: the coup the world missed

He opposes giving an undue share of the oil and gas revenues to Australia.

In 2006, a section of the East Timorese army turned against Alkatiri.

According to John Pilger (ITV - John Pilger - East Timor: the coup the world missed):

An eyewitness, Australian radio reporter Maryann Keady, disclosed that American and Australian officials were involved.

A leaked Australian Defence Force document has since revealed that Australia's "first objective" in East Timor is to "seek access" for the Australian military so that it can exercise "influence over East Timor's decision-making".

The Howard government accepted an 'invitation' by the East Timorese president, Xanana Gusmão, and foreign minister, José Ramos Horta - who oppose Alkatiri's nationalism - to send troops to Dili, the capital.

In June 2006 Alkatiri resigned.

In March 2006, both Condoleezza Rice and Tony Blair visited Indonesia.

In March 2006 , the Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command stated in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee that he endorsed "a rapid, concerted infusion of assistance" for the Indonesian military. The Bush government proposed a six-fold increase in military aid to Indonesia.

In May 2006, the Indonesian military took part in the Cobra Gold regional military exercise with the United States and other countries.

6. What do we know about the people who have been trying to destabilise East Timor?

Rebel leader Alfredo Reinado's father and sister live in Australia.

Over several years, Reinado travelled to Australia to receive military training from the Australian Defence Force, studying defence management in October 2003 and emergency management in August 2004.

In 2005 he completed a three-month navy training module at the Australian Command and Staff College in Canberra. (Army's cause without a rebel)

Reinado backs Fernando de Araujo and his Democratic Party.

Araujo has links to Indonesia's American-trained special forces Kopassus regiment and to the Australian military.

De Araujo’s Democratic Party won 8.7% of the vote and seven seats in the 2001 parliamentary elections. (East Timor: Presidential election campaign held under ongoing ...)

De Araujo has ties with people connected to the Indonesian military's militias that killed many Timorese during and after the 1999 independence referendum.

De Araujo has organised protests against the Timorese government with Rui Lopes, who has had close links with Indonesia’s special forces, Kopassus.

De Araujo is also close to Nemecio De Carvalho, former leader of one of the Indonesian military's militias. (East Timor: Presidential election campaign held under ongoing ...)

De Araujo has played a role in the attempts to destabilise the East Timor government and when at one point he had to flee from East Timor he fled to Australia transported by the Australian military.

Video - Alfredo Reinado - East Timor

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