9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13
9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/13 = New York, Madrid, London, Paris
It’s Not a War on Terror, it’s a War on Intelligence…
NYT Editorial Slams “Disgraceful” CIA Exploitation of Paris Attacks, But Submissive Media Role Is Key
A truly superb New York Times editorial this morning mercilessly shames the despicable effort by U.S. government officials to shamelessly exploit the Paris attacks to advance long-standing agendas. Focused on the public campaign of the CIA to manipulate post-Paris public emotions to demonize transparency and privacy and to demand still-greater surveillance powers for themselves…
Military Intervention Is the Problem, Not the Solution
The Islamic State’s latest atrocities are a calculated effort to bring the war in Syria home to the countries participating in it.
Putin – Cometh the Hour, Cometh the Man
Almost everyone now recognises that Russia’s military intervention in Syria to defeat the so-called Islamic State terror group was the right call to make. Russian President Vladimir Putin isn’t crowing about it. He doesn’t have to.
“No Ground Troops to Syria:” Obama’s Smartest Move in Eight Years?
Stopping ISIS: Follow the Money
Wars are expensive. The recruitment and sustainment of fighters in the field, the ongoing purchases of weapons and munitions, as well as the myriad other costs of struggle, add up.
British air strikes on Isis in Syria: Labour MPs warn they will rebel if not given free vote on bombing
Cameron has warned that he would not ‘outsource’ decisions needed ‘to keep our country safe’ to the UN
Paris attacks: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman donates $110m to set up anti-terror centre in wake of French shootings
King Salman said the fight against terrorism was ‘the responsibility of the entire international community’
Paris Terror: Air Strikes Will Have Little Effect if They Are the Only Weapon in the War Against Isis
French aircraft have bombed Raqqa, Isis’s capital, and hit an Isis training camp and a suspected arms depot according to a local monitoring group. But ten French planes dropping 20 bombs are unlikely to achieve very much because targets are concealed, dispersed and difficult to detect.
World unites after IS terror but strikes may backfire, experts say
Arab Nations’ Intel Tips Often Go Unheeded in West
Iraq, Saudi Arabia Gave France Pre-Attack Warnings
Turkey Fans Boo Moment of Silence for Paris Attacks, Then Break Out Into This Chant
‘War on civilized world’: Medvedev urges powers to unite after Russian plane bombing, Paris attacks
Long-range bombers to fly anti-ISIS missions from Russia, Putin orders Navy to work with France
Report: Russian Plane Bomb Was in Cabin, Not Luggage
ISIS Picture Also Adds to Speculation of Passenger Detonating Bomb
Iran starts dismantling nuclear equipment, U.N. report says
Iran has disconnected almost a quarter of its uranium-enriching centrifuges in less than a month, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Wednesday, suggesting it is racing to implement an agreement restricting its nuclear activities.
Keep Assad in power to defeat Isis in Syria, says former UK military chief
General Sir David Richards says Cameron aim of dealing with Isis and getting rid of president at same time ‘not plausible’
Assad: no political process while ‘terrorists’ in Syria
Russia To Ban All Food Imports From Ukraine
Russia has announced it will ban all food imports from Ukraine starting on January 1. Russian Economy Minister Aleksei Ulyukayev told TV channel Rossia-24 on November 18 that Russia was taking the action “because Ukraine has joined the sanctions against the Russian Federation — economic and financial.”
Senegal debates banning burqa to stop terrorists disguised in Islamic dress
Faced with the rise of Boko Haram in west Africa, Senegal is contemplating joining the Republic of the Congo, Chad, and Cameroon in outlawing the traditional garment worn by some Muslim women.
Africa blasts ICC as world crimes court members meet
The AU has blasted the world’s only permanent war crimes court for its unrelenting focus on the continent, as it called for a case against Kenya’s deputy president to be dropped.
Africa must set up own ICC to try Europeans, says Mugabe
Who Made the Terror?
After Paris, Rights Groups Warn Against Knee-Jerk ‘National Security’ Overreach
‘Whilst closed oppressive societies breed hatred and barbarism, open reflective states built on rights, freedoms and the rule of law ultimately prevail.’
Putin comes in from the cold: Desperate world leaders cosy up to Russian President to get him to join the fight against ISIS
Desperate world leaders today lined up to try to woo Russian President Vladimir Putin to back global efforts to defeat ISIS. For more than a year relations with Moscow have been in the deep freeze over Russian incursions in Ukraine. But now Mr Putin is seen as holding the key to resolving the bloody civil war in Syria which has given rise to ISIS fanatics.
G20: Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin agree to Syrian-led transition
Presidents of US and Russia meet at leaders’ conference and agree to have the UN negotiate a peace deal between the opposition and the Assad regime
President al-Assad to French delegation: Terrorist attacks on Paris can’t be separated from those of Beirut and events in Syria
President Bashar al-Assad received on Saturday a French delegation, including a number of parliamentarians, intellectuals, and media men, headed by member of the French National Assembly Thierry Mariani.
Mindless terrorists? The truth about Isis is much worse
France Vows to Continue ISIS War ‘Without Mercy’
US Pledges to Support All French Escalations in Conflict
Paris: You Don’t Want to Read This
Abdelhamid Abaaoud named as alleged mastermind of Paris terror attacks
Official tells AP that man behind plot was Abdelhamid Abaaoud, also suspected of involvement in narrowly averted attack on high-speed train in August
Iraq: ISIS Leader Baghdadi Ordered Attack on Paris
Iraqi Intel Sent Warning to France the Day Before Paris Attacks
In France, defense experts ‘see parallels to Israel’
French-born Israeli Jonathan-Simon Sellem says Jewish community was warned of impending mass terror attack
After Paris attacks, pressure builds for big military response to Islamic State
How Saudi/Gulf Money Fuels Terror
With the death toll in the Paris terror attacks still rising, French President Hollande is condemning an “act of war” by the Islamic State, but the underlying reality is that France’s rich friends in the Persian Gulf are key accomplices in the mayhem, writes Daniel Lazare.
Paris Under Attack – Smells like False Flag all Over
France is at war – words reminiscent to George Bush and his clan after 9/11.
Just as Innocent – Comparing Beirut and Paris
A Lebanese journalist asks why we categorise Lebanese victims as we mourn French ones.
Paris: Who Made the Terror?
The US and its allies murdered one million civilians in Iraq, using indefinite sanctions and war, destroyed all public infrastructure, and gutted all institutions. Do you think that would cause some people to be pissed off and desperate?
13/11 Paris Massacre: Pour Quel Profit?
ISIS had initially sent 5 bombers for Lebanon attacks: Machnouk
Russia says Hezbollah not a terrorist group – Ifax
Moscow does not consider Shi’ite Muslim group Hezbollah to be a terrorist organisation, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying on Sunday.
Egypt police kill 15 Sudanese migrants at Israel border
Egyptian officials in the Sinai Peninsula say police killed 15 Sudanese migrants and wounded another eight who were trying to jump the border fence into Israel.
You Can’t Understand ISIS If You Don’t Know the History of Wahhabism in Saudi Arabia
The dramatic arrival of Da’ish (ISIS) on the stage of Iraq has shocked many in the West. Many have been perplexed — and horrified — by its violence and its evident magnetism for Sunni youth. But more than this, they find Saudi Arabia’s ambivalence in the face of this manifestation both troubling and inexplicable, wondering, “Don’t the Saudis understand that ISIS threatens them, too?”
Say hello to my cruise missiles: Escobar
Say hello to my cruise missiles: Escobar
The New Great Game in Eurasia advanced in leaps and bounds last week after Russia fired 26 cruise missiles from the Caspian Sea against 11 ISIS/ISIL/Daesh targets across Syria, destroying all of them. These naval strikes were the first known operational use of state-of-the-art SSN-30A Kalibr cruise missiles.
US, Russia & Syria: The Problem With Faking It
The great danger of faking your ability to do something in the public square is that someone with an actual desire to the job you are pretending to do might come along and show you up. This is what has just happened to the US in Syria with the entrance of Russia into the fight against ISIL.
Turkey would talk with Russia and Iran on political solution in Syria: PM
US Arms Shipments Fuel Proxy War With Russia Over Syria
US Stepping Up Shipments of Anti-Tank Missiles
US draws a line on protecting CIA-backed rebels in Syria
US Weapons Drops Arming Unvetted Syrian Rebel Factions
Pentagon Insists Rebels Don’t Need to Be Vetted
US Military Official: Russian Airstrikes Benefiting IS
Some Russian airstrikes in Syria are benefiting Islamic State militants, a U.S. military official said Tuesday. Russia, meanwhile, is worried that a recent U.S. airdrop of arms to Syrian rebels might end up benefiting the Islamic State.
Putin slams US on Syria, says partners have ‘mush for brains’
“I think some of our partners simply have mush for brains, they do not have a clear understanding of what really happens in the country and what goals they are seeking to achieve.”
Lavrov: Little doubt US arms delivered to Syrian opposition to fall into terrorists’ hands
US airdrops arms in Syria as Russia escalates bombing campaign
Just days after terminating its disastrously failed program to arm and train US-backed “rebels” in Syria, the Pentagon announced Monday that US Air Force C-17 cargo planes escorted by fighter jets airdropped some 50 tons of arms, ammunition and grenades to anti-government forces.
Myth About Moderate Rebels
Washington has been continuing to develop measures against the Russian strategy in Syria. First of all, the US has to demonstrate the existence of the so-called “moderate rebels”. For that reason the topic of the “Free Syrian Army” (FSA) became popular in the US and European media. But what is the FSA?
U.S. Weaponry Is Turning Syria Into Proxy War With Russia
US vs Russia military showdown is INEVITABLE top MI6 chief warns
RUSSIA and the US are set for a cataclysmic clash, an MI6 chief has warned as Vladimir Putin’s continues its campaign of air strikes in Syria.
Obama and Putin Agreed To Screw Erdogan?
It’s official! The New York Times finally admits that the “CIA rebels” in Syria who received tons of TOW anti-tank missiles are working under the field command of al-Qaeda/Jabhat al Nusra…
Rockets hit Russian embassy compound in Damascus
Israel’s new security steps: IDF to guard buses, surround Arab neighborhoods
Cabinet measures to counter terror wave include demolishing homes of terrorists and revoking their families’ residency rights
‘Israel is a terrorist state’
Palestinian citizens of Israel are angered by Israel’s restrictions on access to al-Aqsa and Palestinian casualties.