RUSSIA AND ISRAEL

Israeli veterans of the Red Army (http://www.forward.com/articles/103839/)

During the Cold War, Russia and Israel did exchange secrets.

Is Russia still in bed with Israel?

According to WikiLeaks: Russia gave Israel the codes for a defense system which Russia sold to Iran.

"WikiLeaks has released an e-mail exchange between employees of Stratfor, the US-based global intelligence company, which reveals Israel and Russia made a deal to swap access codes for defense and surveillance equipment.

"According to the leaked document, Israel gave Russia the 'data link codes' for unmanned aerial vehicles that the Jewish state sold to Georgia, and in return, Russia gave Israel the codes for Tor-M1 missile defense systems that Russia sold Iran."

Aangirfan considers that Wikileaks is used by the CIA to destabilise certain countries.

Recent Wikileaks leaks have attacked Syria's Assad.


On 29 February 2012 'Just Another Inside Job' gives the following comments:

http://just-another-inside-job.blogspot.com/2012/02/russia-gave-israel-codes-for-defense.html

"Anyone still trusting Russia must upgrade his/her brain...

"An email dated February 26, 2009, refers to clandestine Israeli-Russian collaboration.

"The source is described as a 'former Mexican cop, Latam military analyst, writes for Jane’s'; has a reliability rating of A and a credibility rating of 1, the highest possibleStratfor rankings...

Israel has a very large Russian-Jewish population.

"Israel and Turkey are alleged to be 'collaborating very closely' following a S-300 sale from Russia to Greece.

"The email also lists the following claim: “Turkey has been cracking the S-300 since the … sale and has been sharing intel on the S-300 with the Israelis to ensure that they retain an advantage over Iran should Iran get them from the Russians.”

Russia may see Israel as an ally against the Islamists?

What is Putin's latest position on Syria?

Putin says the West has fuelled the Syrian conflict.

On 2 March 2012, Vladimir Putin criticized the West for backing the Syrian opposition, saying it has fuelled the conflict.

Putin said that both the Syrian government and opposition forces must pull out of the cities to end the bloodshed.

Putin defended Russia-China veto of a UN resolution condemning Assad's crackdown on protests, saying that Moscow wants to prevent the replay of what happened in Libya


In 2001, Israel-Russia Relations were described by Shlomo Avineri of the Carnegie Endowment Report.

Israel-Russia Relations - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

According to Avineri:

From 1947-51, Russia supported Israel.

Russia supported the Arab side in the wars against Israel in 1956, 1967, and 1973, as well as during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982.

The crackdown on Jewish dissidents and refuseniks added to the tension between Israel and Russia.

All this deepened US strategic support for Israel.

Palestine

Gorbachev improved the Russian relationship with Israel.

Almost one million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel in the last ten years.

"The disappearance of the Soviet strategic umbrella deprived Arab leaders of their military and diplomatic insurance policy."

This moved the PLO toward the Oslo Accords and led Syria to agree to serious negotiations with Israel.

Russia acquiesced in the Gulf War.

Israel benefited from its Russian immigrants in terms of technology, the economy and the size of its population.

Russian policy in the period 1991-2001 has been consistently supportive of stabilization and of US peace efforts.

Russia realizes the limits of its power and the narrowness of it's policy options.

Russia is aware of the Arabs' relative weakness and Israel's relative strength.

"The staff of the Russian embassy in Tel Aviv abounds with fluent Hebrew speakers, and they are able to counter-balance the kind of information that flows to Moscow from Arab capitals."

Russian Jews in the USA

Russia worries about its Islamist neighbours.

Hence Russia seeks friendship with Israel, which has political and technological access to the West.

The Arab regimes are seen as ailing and unreliable.

There has been joint Israeli-Russian defense and industrial cooperation.



The war in Chechnya, and Russia's apparent lack of sympathy for Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo, have diminished Russia's standing in the Muslim world.

There is a belief that Russia and Israel are allies in the struggle against Islamic fundamentalism.

Russians view the one million Russian-speakers in Israel as a major foreign policy asset.

The "Russian" vote is the major bloc of swing voters in Israeli elections.

Nearly one third of the Israeli population are Russian Jews.

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Israel Helped Russia Hack Georgian Drones – Wikileaks‎ RIA Novosti

Russia's chief rabbi: Most Jews will vote for Putin.‎ Haaretz

US COUP IN MALDIVES?

Maldives

Both the USA and China take an interest in the Maldives.

On 7 February 2012, there was a coup in the Maldives.

President Mohammed Nasheed was replaced by his vice-president Mohammed Waheed Hassan.

Is Nasheed supported or opposed by the USA?

Are his 'Islamic' opponents supported or opposed by the USA?

New president, Waheed Hassan, recognised by the USA.

On 17 February 2012, "Nasheed voiced bitter disappointment ... at the US decision to recognise his successor, who Nasheed suspects of conspiring in his removal from office...

"Nasheed's efforts to force new President Mohamed Waheed to step down received a major blow on Thursday when Washington announced it was conferring a stamp of legitimacy on Waheed's administration."

http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/nasheed-stung-by-us-nod-to-new-maldives-leader-175156&cp


Maldives by Ahmed Zahid

"Talking about the growing influence of China earlier during the interaction, Hassan said, 'Ultimately we have not signed any agreement since I became President... So I categorically deny that'.

"He said, 'We will respect all the strategic and commercial agreements we have signed with India. This is not to be questioned'.

"Asked how he plans to promote ties with China, Hassan said, 'While President Nasheed was in power, we established a Chinese mission in the Maldives.'"

India need not worry about China: Maldives Prez

Malé, capital of Maldives by Shahee Ilyas. After being Buddhist for a lengthy period, Moslem traders brought Sunni Islam to the Maldives.

Steven Argue (The Maldives Coup.) writes of the new dictatorship of Hassan being backed by the USA.

"This U.S. backed coup has reinstalled ministers from the brutal dictatorship of Gayoom, a dictatorship that President Nasheed defeated through decades of activism that included Nasheed's own personal repeated jailings and torture at the hands of the Gayoom dictatorship.

"Through that mass struggle with the support of outlawed trade-unionists, the movement forced the first ever democratic election in Maldives history in 2008, with Naheed defeating Gayoom in that election.


Ahmed Ikleel

"After the election President Nasheed's government legalized unions...

"He was also working on amending the tax code so that wealthy luxury resort owners would pay more taxes.

"Nasheed's regime, however, also appointed religious extremists to his cabinet and failed to attempt to change laws passed by Gayoom that discriminate against non-Muslims.

"Nasheed ... did three things the U.S. is always against: 1. He supported democracy. 2. He, at least to some degree, supported union rights and better conditions for workers. 3. He took on the global profits of the oil industry (in his case by challenging climate change).

Nasheed

"The conflict between President Nasheed and the judiciary has primarily been one that resulted from the fact that the judiciary continues to be the appointees of the Gayoom dictatorship who refuse to apply the law to Gayoom and his good-old-boy network in regards to corruption and repression...

"President Nasheed has recognized that it was the owners of the luxury resorts and members of the former Gayoom dictatorship who were behind this coup stating, 'The coup was largely financed by resort owners.'

"Asked why, Nasheed responded: 'I suppose they liked the old order of corruption.'

"Those luxury hotel owners are upset by Nasheed’s fairer taxation and legalization of unions..."

Gayoom, fan of the Muslim Brotherhood.

At Twelfthbough, we read more:

http://twelfthbough.blogspot.com/2012/02/poster-child-for-paradise.html

"The Maldives has a trafficking problem... As many as 35% of the youth are hooked on drugs.

"Trafficking, as we know, indicates the presence of organized crime...

"If the network has been set up for drugs, it can also be used for humans, for guns, for anything...

"The Maldives is strategically located for the US military and many profitable shipping routes..."


Maldives by GraveBone

According to Rehmat's World: the ousted president Nasheed was pro-Israel. (Maldives: 'Pro-Israel President booted out' Rehmat's World)

"Nasheed now claims that he was dumped on gunpoint by the pro-Islamist security forces...

The Islamists reportedly accused Nasheed of being in cahoots with Israel and accused Israeli tourists of corrupting the country’s Islamic culture.

"The diplomatic relations between Maldives and the Zionist entity were established in 1965 – but severed by the president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom in 1980 who after deposing Sultan Mohamed Farid I, declared the Island nation as a republic.

"The links were re-established on September 25, 2009 by the new president Mohamed Nasheed.

"Israeli military officials were reinvited to train Maldives’ security agencies.

"In 2010, an Islamic group protested against the arrival of Israeli surgeons to work at the government run Indhra Gandhi hospital. They claimed Israeli doctors are notorious in organ harvesting for Israel.

"Nasheed who initially headed a coalition government, later turned into a civilian dictator. He awarded millions of dollars of contracts to his family members and close friends and wealthy supporters."

Usually, both the Islamists, and their opponents, work for the CIA and Mossad.

Mubarak was said to be a friend of Israel and the USA, but he got toppled by the CIA and Mossad.

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JAIL FOR ROBERT GREEN

RON PAUL BACKED BY CIA 'DISINFORMATION AGENT'?

The CIA's Michael Scheuer and Ron Paul

Michael Scheuer was the boss of the CIA unit which tracked 'CIA agent' Osama bin Laden.

Michael Scheuer now works at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies.

Michael Scheuer promotes the myth that the violent Islamists are not the friends and partners of the CIA.

Michael Scheuer would appear to be a disinformation agent?

On 3 January 2012, Scheuer endorsed Ron Paul e

"Iowa’s Choice: Dr. Paul or U.S. bankruptcy, more wars, and many more dead soldiers and Marines"


Scheuer says Ron Paul is the best candidate to protect America from (the CIA's) Islamic extremists.

Scheuer fails to tell us that the CIA trained Saddam Hussein, put the Ayatollahs into power in Iran, sold weapons to Iran at the time of Iran Contra, trained the 9 11 'hijackers' and put the al Qaeda linked Belhaj into power in Libya.

Scheuer fails to emphasise that the CIA trained the mujahideen in Afghanistan.

Scheuer promotes the myth that the mad Islamists, with their links to fascism and the drugs trade, are not on the same side as the CIA.

Scheuer knows that Ron Paul has little chance of being elected.

So it is safe to back him.


SCHEUER PROMOTES THE OSAMA MYTH, YET HE KNOWS THAT TERRORISTS WERE ALLOWED TO ESCAPE

Scheuer sounds plausible.

Scheuer says that America's wars are leading to bankruptcy.

Scheuer writes that Ron Paul’s non-interventionist policy will:

1. Allow foreigners to work out their political destiny in their own way and at their own pace.

2. Prevent unnecessary additions to America’s growing list of enemies.

3. Save countless young lives.

But, Scheuer wants you to think that those Islamists are the enemy of the CIA.

According to Scheuer, "electing anyone but Ron Paul will further increase the already strong chances of widespread Islamist-conducted violence inside the United States."

Scheuer prepares us for what may be about to happen; we appear to be being conditioned by Scheuer.

According to Scheuer, more wars will mean more Muslims taking up arms against America, and possibly the beginning of a 'clash of civilizations.'

According to Scheuer, acts of terrorism are not CIA false flag operations.

According to Scheuer, Moslem extremists attack American interests because of U.S. government meddling abroad.

According to Scheuer, America could become a battlefield with the government having to use the military on U.S. soil.


Scheuer wrote about a relationship between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda in his 2002 book.

Michael Scheuer "depicts bin Laden as a rational actor who is fighting to weaken the United States by weakening its economy, rather than merely combating and killing Americans.

"He challenges the common assumption that terrorism is the threat that the United States is facing in the modern era, arguing rather that Islamist insurgency (and not 'terrorism' is the core of the conflict between the U.S. and Islamist forces, who in places such as Kashmir, Xinjiang, and Chechnya are 'struggling not just for independence but against institutionalized barbarism.'"

Michael Scheuer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Moslems working for the CIA to destabilise Russia?

Would the CIA and its friends use Moslems to destabilise rival countries such as Russia?

1. In the 1960s, Islamic guerrillas were being supported and used by Britain's MI6.

According to The Independent (UK):

"Cabinet papers show that British spies, including MI6, supported Islamic guerrillas in order to destabilise Sukarno."

(Revealed: Healey admits role in British dirty tricks campaign to overthrow Indonesia's President Sukarno, By Paul Lashmar and James Oliver, The Independent - 16 April 2000 (The Secret State: MI5 (Home Office/MoD), The Security Service and ...)

According to Killing Hope: US Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II by William Blum (Indonesia 1957-1958):

"In the early months of 1958, rebellion began to break out in one part of the Indonesian island chain, then another."

CIA pilots took to the air to carry out bombing and strafing missions in support of the rebels.

"On 15 May, a CIA plane bombed the Ambon marketplace, killing a large number of civilians on their way to church on Ascension Thursday...

"Three days later, during another bombing run over Ambon, a CIA pilot, Allen Lawrence Pope, was shot down and captured."

2. In The Age, (We must not get back in bed with Kopassus - theage.com.au), Dr Damien Kingsbury, of Deakin University, wrote about Moslem militants in Indonesia and their links to the American-trained military.

Kingsbury points out that Komando Jihad, which became Jemaah Islamiah, was set up by (American trained) Indonesian generals.

Former Indonesian spy (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang was quoted by Tempo magazine as suggesting that Bali bomb mastermind Al-Farouq was a CIA-recruited agent.

3. "According to CIA agent Miles Copeland... the CIA began to cooperate with the Muslim Brotherhood...

"This signalled the beginning of an alliance between the traditional regimes and mass Islamic movements against Nasser and other secular forces." (aangirfan: The use of the Muslim Brotherhood by MI6 and the CIA in ...)

According to an article entitled "The British, Muslim Terrorism and September 11":

"In Syria, in 1982, there was a major conflict between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Syrian government at the city of Hamma that resulted in 20,000 casualties.

"In the aftermath Syria's President Asad revealed that the Muslim Brotherhood forces were armed with US-made equipment...

"Israel, forever inclined to back divisive movements, surfaced as another supporter of Islam and began to fund the Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas.

"The most noteworthy success of the Islamic movement during this time was of course the overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the installation of the Ayatollah Khomeini as the Islamic dictator.

"British Intelligence had used their contacts with Iran's mullahs and ayatollahs to help overthrow Mossadegh and install the Shah back in 1953, and these contacts were maintained and used again to overthrow the Shah when his regime fell out of favor."


4. The CIA and its friends must help their Moslem agents to escape custody?

Rashid Rauf, British 'terrorist mastermind' of the alleged plot to blow up at least 10 transatlantic airliners, managed to escaped from custody. (Top British terror suspect escapes)

Jamal al-Badawi was convicted in 2004 of planning and carrying out the USS Cole bombing.

He escaped from prison in 2004.

In October 2007, al-Badawi, after pledging loyalty to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, was told that he is a free man. ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21480392/ )

Omar Al-Faruq was described as being the mastermind of the Bali bomb plot.

Al-Faruq was arrested in Bogor on June 5, 2002 and handed over to the US authorities.

Former Indonesian State Intelligence Coordinating Board (BAKIN) chief A.C. Manulang was quoted by Tempo as saying that Al-Faruq was most likely a CIA-recruited agent. (Omar Al-Faruq Recruited by The CIA)

In 2005, a Pentagon official in Washington confirmed that al-Faruq escaped from a U.S. detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan. (Pakistan News Service - PakTribune)

Haroon Rashid Aswat was described as being the mastermind of the 7 July London bombings.

The authorities stated that Aswat had made mobile telephone calls to two of the 7 July bombers. ('Batley man' linked to bin Laden and bombers - Yorkshire Evening Post)

After Aswat was handed over to the UK police, Scotland Yard police headquarters said, on 7 August 2005, that detectives were not interested in speaking to Aswat about the London attacks. ( http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=13913208)

Reportedly, Aswat worked for MI6. (Haroon Rashid Aswat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)


This is a mujahidin training camp in 1987. Pakistan spy boss Hamid Gul (front left); CIA boss William Webster (second left). Photo: www.rawa.org

The CIA and its friends are in bed with the Islamic extremists.

Both the the CIA and the Islamists support fascism and the feudal system.

At www.voltairenet.org Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed has written about Our terrorists

(Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development (IPRD) in London)

Among the points made:

1. Bin Laden and his Islamist pals received about half a billion dollars a year from the CIA, and roughly the same from the Saudis.

The CIA and its pals supported al Qaeda "as a counterweight to ... leftwing and nationalist political trends."

The CIA and its pals wanted to spread Islamist extremism to countries such as Yemen, Indonesia, and the Philippines.

2. Graham Fuller, former Deputy Director of the CIA’s National Council on Intelligence, stated: "The policy of guiding the evolution of Islam and of helping them against our adversaries worked marvellously well in Afghanistan against the Red Army.

"The same doctrines can still be used to destabilize what remains of Russian power, and especially to counter the Chinese influence in Central Asia."

3. From 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon flew thousands of al-Qaeda mujahidin from Central Asia into Europe, to fight alongside Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs.

The pattern continued in Kosovo.

Bin Laden's lieutenant in the area had direct radio contact with NATO leadership.

4. Around the same time, US intelligence increased its support of al-Qaeda mujahidin in Chechnya.

Afghan heroin was supplied to the Chechen mafia.

5. In Algeria, Bin Laden's men were used to kill opponents of the government.

Hundreds of civilians were massacred by the Armed Islamic Group (GIA). The GIA was formed largely of Algerian veterans of bin Laden's mujahidin forces in Afghanistan who had returned in the late 1980s.

'Yussuf-Joseph', a secret agent in Algeria's sécurité militaire, told the Guardian that civilian massacres in Algeria, blamed on the GIA, were 'the work of secret police and army death squads'.

Dr Jeremy Keenan, Director of Sahara Studies at the University of East Anglia, documents 'an increasing amount of evidence to suggest that the alleged spread of terrorist activities across much of the Sahelian Sahara, has indeed been an elaborate deception on the part of US and Algerian military intelligence services'.

6. Gust Avracotos, the CIA's Station Chief in Islamabad, says that Mossad penetrated Pakistan's ISI.

US Government and intelligence sources confirm that Israel provided direct and indirect financial aid to Hamas in the late 1970s as a counterbalance to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO).

7. In the New Yorker, Seymour Hersh cites US Government and intelligence officials' confirmation that the CIA and the Pentagon have funnelled millions of dollars via Saudi Arabia to al-Qaeda affiliated Sunni extremist groups, across the Middle East and Central Asia.

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MIXED SEX

In Egypt, some Islamist candidates and religious scholars want to:

1. Destroy ancient monuments - seen as a form of idol worship

2. Ban mixed sex beaches

3. Ban bikinis

4. Ban alcohol

5. Ban gambling

Egypt's Islamists and tourism‎

The Islamists are expected to win two thirds of the seats in the Egyptian parliament.

Nader Bakkar, spokesman for the Salafist (Islamist) party says:

"We do want to see a type of Halal tourism ... such as segregation of beaches."



Not surprisingly, Egypt's economic woes mount

AFP reports:

"The fall of foreign currency reserves and the decline in tourism seriously complicates the economic situation," says Samer Suleiman, economics professor at the American University of Cairo.

"The large scores of Islamist parties in the first phase of elections will make investors nervous," he added.

(Egypt's economic woes mount)

The Muslim Brotherhood party and the fundamentalist Al-Nur (Salafi) party have won two thirds of the votes so far.

Both are committed to having sharia law.


Foreign investments have fallen from $6.8 billion in 2010 to $2.2 billion this year.

Foreign reserves have fallen from $36 billion at the beginning of the year to $20 billion.

By February, they are expected to fall to $15 billion, a level at which it will be difficult to pay for imports such as wheat, analysts say.

Egypt is the world's biggest wheat importer.

The army has recently lent the central bank $1 billion to help shore up its finances.

Inflation has reached 9.1%.

(Egypt's economic woes mount)

Expect more violence.

FASCISM COMES TO EGYPT, TUNISIA...

Afghanistan, by Steve McCurry 2006

Tunisia has now become a Fascist state?

On 26 February 2011, author John R Bradley reports on the Arabian nightmare (The Spectator)

Among the points made:

Tunisia used to be tolerant.

1. Kairouan in Tunisia, Islam's fourth holiest city, has long had legal and regulated brothels.

In the Moslem Ottoman-Turkish empire, prostitution was legal and regulated.

2. In Tunisia, tourists have always been able to drink alcohol.

3. In Tunisia, Christians used to be pretty safe.


Tunisia by elmina

Since the Jasmine Revolution of January 2011 everything has changed.

1. The Jasmine Revolution has led to attacks on the brothels in Tunisia's cities.

"Hundreds of Islamists raided Abdallah Guech Street armed with Molotov cocktails and knives, torching the brothels, yelling insults at the prostitutes and declaring that Tunisia was now an Islamist state."

Tunisia's brothels are to be permanently closed.

2. Throughout Tunisia there have been demonstrations against the sale of alcohol.

3. Suspected Islamists have slit the throat of a Catholic priest.

What about Egypt?

1. Egypt is now run by a military junta.

2. The Muslim Brotherhood is "the only political group of any note".

Tunisia by Rene Collin

What was Tunisia really like under Ben Ali?

"Tunisia was the most secular and progressive country the Islamic world has ever known.

"The regime was the least brutal in the region, its people the wealthiest and best educated.

"The poverty level was just 4  per cent when the revolution broke out, which is among the lowest in the world.

"Eighty per cent of the population belonged to the middle class.

"And the education system - allocated more funding than the army - ranked 17th globally in terms of quality.

Tunisia by ZX-6R Christophe Faugere

How Islamic is Egypt?

1. Egypt had a history of tolerant and liberal Islam.

But, a recent poll conducted by the Pew Research Center found that a majority of Egyptians support stoning as a punishment for adultery, hand amputation for theft, and death for those who convert from Islam to another religion.

2. Yusuf Al-Qaradawi is the spiritual guide to the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood.

He has a weekly television show on Al Jazeera.

Recently he delivered a political sermon to a five million-strong crowd in Tahrir Square.

3. Alexandria was once famous for 'its secular, carefree atmosphere'.

Now, all Muslim women in the city are veiled.

Violence between local Christians and Muslims is commonplace.

Most bars have stopped serving alcohol.

What about Morocco?

The fundamentalist Party for Justice and Development (PJD) increases its number of seats at each election.

John R. Bradley is the author of Inside Egypt: The Land Of The Pharaohs On The Brink Of A Revolution (2008) and Behind The Veil of Vice: The Business And Culture of Sex In The Middle East (2010).


Memphis, Egypt by bsargentina

On 24 February 2011, at the Christian Science Monitor, we read that ordinary Egyptians wish their revolution had never happened

According to the Christian Science Monitor:

1. In recent weeks, Umm Karim, a mother of four, has only been able to afford one meal per day.

"Her teenage sons both lost their jobs when the factory they worked in burned down in Egypt's revolution."

2. "Some Egyptians are beginning to wish that their own revolution had never happened."

3. "Shaban doesn't know how he is going to find money to feed his children dinner.

"Since the revolution started, he has not had a job."

Shaban wasn't involved in Egypt's protests.

4. In Shaban's town of al-Maraziq, building projects are halted and business ventures have been disrupted.

A mechanic in al-Maraziq says that business has declined.

He now pays more for paints and spare parts.

His 11-year-old nephew now misses going to school.

5. Umm Karim says: "I wish the revolution never happened."

Five tourist hotels have been attacked in Cairo.

According to the manager, 'about 1,000 young guys' attacked Cairo's Europa Hotel on 15 February 2011.

WND reported that the Egyptian Islamist terrorist organization Jamaat al Islamiya (Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya) , 'founded by the Muslim Brotherhood', and 'armed by Hamas', is re-establishing itself.

In 1996, Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya reportedly carried out a shooting rampage at the Europa Hotel in Cairo, killing 18 Greek tourists.

In 1997, it reportedly carried out the Luxor massacre, killing 58 foreign tourists. (Muslim group.)

On 19 February 2011, the Financial Times reported that these February 2011 hotel attacks raise Islamist fears‎

"Over the past three weeks", a series of attacks have "targeted the Gandool, the Ramses, the Europa, the Arizona and the Andalous."

The manager of the Europa Hotel suggested that his hotel was smashed up by Islamists.

A policeman standing near the Gandool said the attackers were 'the ones with the beards'.

Two people died in the firebombing of the Ramses.


By kexi

Some people suspect that the CIA and Mossad are involved with the 'Islamists'

The Head of Egyptian Islamic Jihad Ayman al Zawahiri, fought for the CIA in Bosnia. (aangirfan: Zawahiri)

His brother Zaiman al-Zawahiri fought for the CIA in Kosovo.

Ayman al Zawahiri was involved in the Luxor massacre.

According to January 2000 U.S. Congressional testimony, Ayman al-Zawahiri was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

One of the centers of operation for al-Zawahiri was London.

President Mubarak, after the Luxor massacre, stated: "There are people who carried out crimes and who were sentenced [in Egypt] and live on British soil." (aangirfan: Zawahiri)

aangirfan: CAIRO BOMB; CIA & MOSSAD TRYING TO TOPPLE MUBARAK?

Jamaat al-Islamiyya - Council on Foreign Relations

AN ISLAMIST TUNISIA WILL SUIT THE CIA, THE SAUDIS, IRAN & THE MAFIA.

CIA boss Panetta and friends.

Iran has welcomed the revolution in Tunisia.

What about the Islamists in Tunisia?

The Islamist movement has been at the forefront of Tunisia's protests

Will the Islamists be used by Iran, or Saudi Arabia or the CIA or the Heroin traders?

Iran, Saudi Arabia and the CIA all appear to have a philosophy that could be described as 'fascist'.

The mad Moslems and the CIA have another thing in common: heroin.

"It has been said that the ubiquitous Rafsanjani family and also Ayatollah Vaez-Tabasi ... are deeply involved in the drug trade..." (Opium, Brown Sugar & Mullahs in Iran « Plateau of Iran )

"The gossip on the street, going well beyond the observable facts, has the Rafsanjanis stashing billions of dollars in bank accounts in Switzerland and Luxembourg; controlling huge swaths of waterfront in Iran's free economic zones on the Persian Gulf; and owning whole vacation resorts on the idyllic beaches of Dubai, Goa and Thailand." (Millionaire Mullahs - Forbes.com) (Author of "Millionaire Mullahs" Shot Dead )

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1. In 1996, Tunisian Minister of Justice Sadok Chaabane said that Tunisian Islamists get their funding and political support from (1) Iran (2) Saudi Arabia.

(Justice Minister Describes Tunisia's Battle Against Islamist Takeover)

According to Chaabane, the 'Islamist' plan is to use Tunisia as "the gateway to its larger neighbors, Algeria and Morocco."

Tunisians belong to Sunni Islam, but Chaabane states that Tunisia's Islamist leaders will accept help from wherever they can find it.

Of course, some believe that the CIA sees Tunisia as its gateway into oil-rich Algeria and Libya.

And the CIA has been happy to use militant Moslems in Kosovo, Afghanistan and elsewhere.



2. Tunisia may now have a bigger problem with 'Islamist extremists' coming in from neighbouring Algeria.

In Algeria, war between the government and 'Islamists' has killed 200,000 people in the last twenty years.

(21 January 2011, Lin Noueihed of Reuters, "What role for the Islamists in the new Tunisia?")

3. In 1980, 30 armed men crossed from Algeria into Tunisia and made their way to the phosphate mining town of Gafsa in central Tunisia. (TUNISIA Plot - TIME)

There they were joined there by 20 other militants.

They tried to seize Gafsa's civil and military installations.

The local people refused to join the revolt.

Tunisian troops defeated the militants. 41 men died.

Gafsa

4. In 2007, Tunisia uncovered an alleged 'terrorist' plot.

"Police dismantled a 'terrorist' group after separate gun battles with suspects ... and recovered explosives, embassy maps and lists of foreign diplomats...

"The gun-battles ... were with members of a 'Salafist terrorist group' (CIA) comprised mainly of Tunisians...

"'Economic facilities' in resort towns had been targeted for attack by a jihadist group from neighbouring Algeria.

"They said the group was linked to the Al-Qaeda (CIA) affiliate Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, a radical group which aims to create an Islamist state in Algeria.

"The group claimed responsibility for the April 2002 truck-bomb attack on a synagogue in Djerba, which killed 21 people including 14 German tourists." (aangirfan: The CIA, Mossad and the Djerba Bombing.)

Monastir. In the 1980s, a bomb exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir. A British tourist was maimed.

5. Habib Bourguiba, the first president of Tunisia, considered militant Islam a threat to the state.

In 1987, when Ben Ali became president, Islamists were released from jail and allowed to run in the 1989 elections.

Ennahda, or Renaissance, Tunisia's largest Islamist movement, came second to the ruling party.

They won 17% or 35% according to different sources.

Ben Ali reversed his policy.

Ghannouchi, who has been living in London.

Ennahda's leader Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi was given protection by Britain..

Tunisia accused Ghannouchi of being behind a planned terrorist bombing campaign aimed at crippling Tunisia’s tourist industry. (Justice Minister Describes Tunisia's Battle Against Islamist Takeover)

A bomb that exploded in a tourist hotel in the resort city of Monastir severely maimed a British woman guest.

5. "Many fear that ... extremist ideas will (now) circulate..." as openly and as widely as democratic or secular ideas..." ("What role for the Islamists in the new Tunisia?")


6. Bernard Lewis helped to invent the West's new enemy, known as 'Islam'.

For the British, it was once the Jewish terrorists who were seen as being the enemy.

For the USA, it was once tiny Vietnam.

Professor Bernard Lewis is Jewish and has worked for British intelligence. (Bernard Lewis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia )

Lewis, born in London in 1916, is a historian and 'expert' on Islam.

In 1974, Lewis accepted a position at Princeton University.

In 1990, Lewis wrote an essay entitled The Roots of Muslim Rage.

In this essay, Lewis argued that the struggle between the West and Islam was gathering strength.

In this essay Lewis invented the phrase "clash of civilizations", which got mentioned in the book by Samuel Huntington.[13]

The phrase "clash of civilizations", was first used by Lewis at a meeting in Washington in 1957. [14]

There has been speculation that Lewis, the intelligence services and people like Brzezinski want to make the Moslem world look bad, so that it can be more easily controlled and exploited.

Much of the world's oil lies in Moslem lands.

How do you make Moslems look bad?

You can finance the extremists and help them into power.

You can carry out false flag operations.

Bernard Lewis argues (Bernard Lewis - Wikipedia) that the Middle East is backward due to its culture and religion.

The alternative view is that a country like Iraq is backward partly because of constant interference by countries such as Britain and the USA.

In his 1982 book Muslim Discovery of Europe, Lewis argues that Moslems behaved badly in the Algerian civil war (1992–98).

Lewis fails to point out that certain security services created the violence that began in Algeria in 1991. (aangirfan: Fake terror in Algeria; the US military in Algeria; oil ...)

Lewis fails to point out that many people believe that both Saddam and the Ayatollahs were put into power by the CIA. (aangirfan: Saddam worked for the CIA / aangirfan: The Ayatollahs and the CIA)

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aangirfan: HEROIN IN IRAN; RAFSANJANI

TUNISIA - IRAQ STYLE DEMOCRACY

Tunisia: the new Iraq. George W. Bush talked about 'democracy' taking hold in Iraq and then the region.



On 19 January 2011, the Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal is reported as saying that he is "very concerned about the way things are developing in Tunisia."



"The situation is deteriorating rapidly and is becoming more dangerous." (Europeans warn nationals to avoid Tunisia)



"Fidelity and its affiliates helped dozens of Americans and other foreign workers leave the country over the weekend." (Cisco latest firm to suspend Tunisia operations)



In Washington, "Undersecretary for Management Pat Kennedy has approved the authorized departure of dependents from Tunisia." (Tunisia.)



"Men in unmarked cars had been driving around Sousse and shooting random people out of their cars." (RI blogger reporting from center of unrest in Tunisia)



According to Oxford historian Mark Almond (What comes next could be even worse‎):

"President Obama has welcomed the changes in Tunisia...

"The discontent in Tunisia will only increase. Tourism has been for Tunisia what oil is for its neighbours. The mass evacuation of Western holidaymakers is a warning of further economic troubles to come..."

Tourists will not enjoy shootings, riots, bodies in streets... horrific‎



Are NATO security services involved?



Jan. 16 (Tunisian security forces arrest eight foreign nationals) - "The Tunisian army and security forces arrested eight foreign nationals including four Germans, the Tunisian television reported Sunday.



"Tunisian TV showed footage of the men arrested, as well weapons, maps, electronic equipment and identity papers.



"The group was travelling on board three taxis, when they were intercepted.



"They are said to have entered Tunisia on Jan. 9.



"Some of them were wearing military outfits."

Ghannoushi

We should not forget that the CIA has supported Islamists in such countries as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and Kosovo. (THE CIA'S MOSLEM FRIENDS, FROM BIN LADEN TO THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD.)

Tunisia's Islamists seem to be getting a bit of a boost from the media.



On 18 January 2011, the Guardian has an article by Soumaya Ghannoushi entitled 'Tunisians must dismantle the monster Ben Ali built'



Among the points she makes:

1. The people have to forge a coalition of socialists, Islamists and liberals for real change.



2. "The sense of despair and profound humiliation Arabs felt with the toppling of Saddam's tyrannical regime by the US contrasts sharply with their euphoria at the ousting of Tunisia's dictator."

3. In Tunisia, "the apparatus of repression laid down by Habib Bourguiba, Tunisia's charismatic 'founding father', was fine-tuned by the general who inherited it."



4. The task now facing the Tunisian people - is to build a wide coalition of the forces that can dismantle the legacy of the despotic post-colonial state.



This has been the driving force for the alliance being forged between the Communist Workers' Party, led by Hamma al-Hammami, the charismatic Moncef al-Marzouqi's Congress Party for the Republic, and (Islamist) Ennahda, led by my father Rachid Ghannouchi, along with trade unionists, and civil society activists.

The Tunisian stock market began to fall before the riots began - Bloomberg (Website for this image)



In 2006, US embassy cables considered the question of finding a successor to Ben Ali in Tunisia



(US embassy cables: Finding a successor to Ben Ali in Tunisia)



Cable dated: 2006-01-09 - SUBJECT: SUCCESSION IN TUNISIA: FINDING A SUCCESSOR OR FEET FIRST? - Classified By: AMBASSADOR WILLIAM HUDSON



Among the points made:



1. the US-Tunisian bilateral relationship is likely to remain unaffected by the departure of Ben Ali.



2. X recently told the Ambassador X that Ben Ali wants to avoid the "difficulties" that arose when Tunisia's first president, Habib Bourguiba, declined in 1987.



Some people may state their hope that U.S. and European pressure could force Ben Ali to ... relinquish the presidency.



3. POSSIBLE SUCCESSORS



Minister of Defense Morjane: affecting the credibility of succession scenarios is an oft-repeated notion that the US is favoring Morjane in the succession race.



http://www.facebook.com/pages/General-Rachid-Ammar-.



May 2010 - General William E. Ward, commander of U.S. Africa Command, visited Tunisia and met Tunisian Minister of Defense Ridha Grira.



"Minister Grira had recently returned from very positive talks in Washington with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates." (Tunisia - U.S. Africa Command Blog)



October 2010 - Sakhr El Materi, chairman of the Tunisia-US Parliamentary Friendship Group, had talks with top Americans in the Pentagon and the State Department.



November 2010 - A cable from the US embassy in Tunis released by wikileaks describes Tunisia's President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's family entourage as a "quasi Mafia" because of its "organized corruption".



17 December - Mohamed Bouazizi, a 26-year-old university graduate, reportedly set himself alight in the central Tunisian town of Sidi Bouzid in a protest over unemployment.



Tunisia's current president is President Fouad Mebazza.

Was Tunisian army chief General Ammar part of the plot to topple Ben Ali?

According to the Independent (Head of Tunisian army.):

General Ammar "advised the President, claim Arab sources, that his safety could not be guaranteed if he attempted to cling on to power.

"Gen Ammar subsequently withdrew the vast bulk of his forces from the capital...

"Walid Chisti, a political analyst, said: "He does not have to do anything, just watch and wait. He is an ambitious man."



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