The Middle East
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klaatu - Jan 5, 2009 9:22 am (#49 of 53)
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klaatu - Jan 6, 2009 1:12 pm (#50 of 53)
Israel Refuses Ceasefire Again, Arab Leaders to Address UN Security Council
January 6, 2009 (LPAC) -- After a day of frantic diplomatic activity in Israel which included meetings by Prime Minister Olmert with a delegation of the European Union; a private visit by Michael Bloomberg, asserting his full support for the Israeli bombings of Gaza; and the visit by French President Nicolas Sarkozy; Israel has rejected all terms of ceasefires, and continues its mass killings of Gaza civilians with its ground incursions. Late reports say that over 550 Palestinians are dead, and almost 3,000 injured. Several Arab Foreign Ministers and other officials have been in New York and plan a debate, and new resolution before the UN Security Council tomorrow. Here is a summary of events:
The European delegations presented a divided picture. Although France only ended its EU Presidency on December 31, there was an EU delegation led by the new presidency, the Czech Republic, meeting with the Israelis earlier on Monday before Sarkozy arrived.
klaatu - Jan 8, 2009 7:31 pm (#51 of 53)
Is Anglo-Saudi Sponsored Lebanese Countergang Behind Rocket Fire Into Israeli?
January 8, 2009 (LPAC) -- The fears that a third force would provoke Israel or give it the pretext to expand the Gaza offensive into a regional war, were made real on January 8, when a number of rockets fired from southern Lebanon hit Israel. The Lebanese Shia group Hizbullah denied any involvement in the attack.
A new Lebanese Shia countergang (openly opposed to Hizbullah) called Arabic Islamic Majlis of Lebanon, declared on Tuesday, January 7, the launching of a militant resistance group. And on January 8, the day of the launching of the rockets against Israel, its leader issued an alert for his troops to get ready to resist an invasion of Lebanon by Israel.
The Saudi-sponsored Lebanese Shia countergang to Hizbullah with offices only in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and London, claimed to have recruited 3000 resistance fighters against Israel.
The group called Arabic Islamic Majlis (with focus on Arabic to distinguish itself as its leader says from the Persian, pro-Iranian Hizbullah) is headed by one Ayatollah Alsayed Alhusseini, and was founded in October 2006 after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in the summer of that year, when Hizbullah clearly defeated the Israeli army.
Alhusseini toured Europe and Britain, according to the group's website, to hold meetings with political personalities in London in February 2008. In a September 15, 2008 report posted on the website of Majlis, Alhusseini is featured in a picture standing in front of a banner stating in Arabic "thank you Saudi Arabia, Kingdom of goodness and humanity." The context of the photo is a letter sent by Alhusseini to Prince Nayef bin Sultan, Interior Minister of Saudi Arabia, for the great support he has given to the charities run by Majlis.
Prince Nayef is a generous donor to Lebanese Sunni groups. He was especially generous after the arrest of Saudi militants who had joined the Salafi group Fatah Al-Islam in fighting against the Lebanese army in the Palestinian refugee camp Nahrel Bared in northern Lebanon in May 2007. Nayef was negotiating the release and transfer of the Saudi terrorist to Saudi Arabia, which he managed successfully.
Al-Husseini is based in Sor and other southern Lebanese towns. A report in the Saudi-financed Al-Arabiya TV states today that Al-Husseinis group is recruiting 3000 resistance fighters, and that Alhusseini said that his group has received 1,500 applications from young people in the Gulf (i.e., Saudi Arabia) to join as fighters in his group. Alhusseini openly accuses Hizbollah's Hassan Nasrallah of being an Iranian agent not a Lebanese patriot.
The bank accounts of Majlis for donations are located at the Lebanese Canadian Bank in Beirut.
Alhusseini is allied with the Duruz sect in Lebanon whose leader, Walid Junbulat, has been calling openly for a U.S. war against Hizbullah, Syria and Iran. Alhusseini visited the religious leaders of Duruz in Al-Irfan Foundation, on January 7, the day he launched his armed resistance against Israel!
In May 16, 2006, Alhusseini sent a letter to the Maryam Rajavi, the leader of British-controlled, US-protected terrorist group Mujahideen-e-Khalg Organisation thanking her for her support in the face of Iranian provocations and harassment against his group in Lebanon. He called her Jihadist sister Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the (Iranian) republic, who was elected by the Iranian resistance.
A London-based Iranian separatist group, the Arab Ahwazi movement, also propagate the political statements of the Majlis.
klaatu - Jan 27, 2009 2:53 pm (#52 of 53)
more of London's meddling wiith terrorist in the Middle East (= Southwest Asia)
British Lay Land-Mines in Southwest Asia for Obama -- Insist EU Remove Iranian Terrorist MKO From Terror List
January 26, 2009 (LPAC)-- As the Obama Administration is expected to reorient U.S. policy in Southwest Asia towards friendly diplomacy, especially with Iran, and as the Iraqi government has decided to force the 3,500 armed members of the Iranian Mujahideen-e-Khalq Organization's (MKO, also known as MEK) out from Camp Ashraf in eastern Iraq (where they have been under Bush-Cheney Administration's protection until recently), the EU Foreign Ministers meeting in Brussels today is expected to clear the MKO from the EU list of terrorist groups, giving them full freedom to recruit and raise funds for subversive activities in Europe.
Last summer, the British Supreme Court ruled in favor of removing the MKO from the British government's list of terrorist organizations. Subsequently an order was issued by both houses of the British Parliament to remove the organization from the British blacklist.
According to the MKO website itself, on January 14 British-based members of the group and some members of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (including Lord Corbett of Castle Vale, Rt. Hon. Lord Archer of Sandwell QC, Former United Kingdom Solicitor General; Lord Clarke of Hampstead; Mr. Brian Binley MP; and Mr. David Vaughan QC) waged a protest in front of the EU offices in London. Lord Corbett, chairman of the committee, who organized 400 signatures of British MPs to put pressure on the EU to follow in Britain's footsteps, told the demonstrators: "In the British Parliament, we support your demands and stand with you." Mr. Binley, a member of the House of Commons, praised the demonstrators' resolve, telling them, "You are running an excellent political campaign. It is certain that you will win at the end. We continue to support the genuine goals of the Resistance."
The EU foreign ministers will most likely approve the decision to remove the outlawed terrorist group from the list today, Jan. 26. "What we are doing today is abiding by the resolution of the European court," EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana told reporters just before the ministers finalize the decision in a meeting in Brussels.
Following the British Supreme Court ruling of last summer, The European Court in Luxembourg ruled in December that the EU was wrong to keep the group's assets frozen.
The Iraqi government has ordered the MKO members to leave their headquarters, Camp Ashraf, and return to Iran or take refuge in a third country. Iraqis accuse the MKO of committing crimes against Iraqis in collusion with previous dictator Saddam Hussein in the 1980 and '90s. In Iran the leaders of the MKO are wanted for bus bombings and assassinations of prominent political figures. However, the Iraqi government is not likely to try the leaders of the group, but ask them to leave for a third country within two weeks. Iraqi National Security Advisor Mowaffaq al-Rubaie in his visit to Tehran last week emphasized Camp Ashraf will be closed forever in two months and the members will leave to leave the country.
klaatu - May 20, 2009 9:14 am (#53 of 53)
Bibi-Obama Meeting A Setback For London
May 20, 2009 (LPAC) -- The fact that Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu got nothing out of his Monday meeting with President Obama, means that London is furious at their Israeli puppet's failure to deliver. The policy coming out of the Fabian circles in London is to keep the Middle East in a state of permanent war and permanent chaos. Netanyahu's job had been to get some concessions out of Obama, to allow for an Israeli strike against Iran's nuclear program. Such a strike would have devastating consequences for all of Southwest Asia, and would spill over into an even worse crisis in the South Asian subcontinent, drawing India into a broader zone of crisis, already hitting both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The point is: Bibi Netanyahu is a British asset, dating back to his father's service as chief of staff and successor to British agent Vladimir Jabotinsky. He takes his orders from London, not from anyone inside Israel. He is key to the British plan to keep the entire region in a state of perpetual crisis, chaos and war. Bibi failed to deliver in Washington on Monday. He misread Obama's ego, and the President stood his ground. This setback will not be taken lightly, Lyndon LaRouche warned today. Look out for a real flight forward on Bibi's part, once he gets back to Israel. The point is not that Israel has any vested true national interest in launching a preventive attack on Iran. It would, in fact, be suicidal for Israel.
One thing that happened, the day that Bibi arrived in Washington, that further destabilized his mission on behalf of London, was the release of a report by a blue ribbon panel of 12 Russian and American scientists, who concluded that the proposed U.S. missile shield in Central Europe would not work. The report concluded that Iran is at least five years away from a deployable nuclear bomb, meaning a bomb attached to a delivery system that could reach targets in Europe. This report, endorsed by former Clinton Defense Secretary William Perry, was made available to Obama's National Security Advisor, Gen. James Jones, on the eve of Bibi's meeting with the President. It greatly undercut Bibi's efforts to extract some concession from the President on the Iran "imminent threat," and the need for coordinated U.S.-Israeli military action versus Iran.
Now look for things to get really nasty. London is pissed at Bibi, is furious that the U.S. is insisting on a course of diplomacy with Tehran, and will now move to blow things up in the Persian Gulf.
LaRouche said that the only solution is to get really rough with Netanyahu, and to explicitly call him out on his British agentry, and to force him to change horses, and start taking his orders from Washington. The Queen be damned.
